Lead Experience Designer

Requisition Number: 156402

Position Title: Sr Experience Designer II

External Description:

LEAD EXPERIENCE DESIGNER                     

At EA, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create amazing experiences for our players everywhere and we consider our players’ experiences first in everything we do. Creating transformational experiences requires constant innovation and brilliant, passionate people. We are developing extraordinary new game experiences by bringing together great people that combine creativity, technology, and expertise to deliver new ways to play.

This is an exciting opportunity to reimagine a Star Wars mobile product at a design led EA studio where experience design is peer to game design and art. As the Lead Experience Designer of the XD team, you will report into the Experience Design Director and work in close collaboration with game design, user research, art, product management, engineering and operations. In addition the XD team will be based out of downtown Vancouver. 

 For this role: 

 YOU WILL 

• Partner with stakeholders to set priorities and find balanced design solutions to player and business goals within technical constraints.
• Lead the team in framing and solving hard problems rooted in player data (quantitative and qualitative)
• Drive a design process and methodologies that supports player centered game development
• Facilitate collaborative design sessions including sketching and experience mapping
• Consistently champion for usability and accessibility
• With the UXD team, craft UX + UI artifacts (experience maps, flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity comps) to guide development and research 
• Drive innovative efforts that uncovers new value with new kinds of experiences
• Mentor junior designers, peers and stakeholders on user centered design principles and methodologies
• Craft clear written communication, allowing players to intuitively use a product, including tone of voice, naming conventions, taxonomy, and text strings
• Drive the creation and management of a design system 

 YOU HAVE

• An advanced level of experience as a product designer, user experience designer, interaction designer, interface designer or similar role
• Delivered design work across a couple of product areas that has had positive impact to the player experience and business outcomes
• Expert knowledge of user experience principles and methodologies
• The ability to translate player data into elegant design solutions and quickly iterate on them
• The ability to effectively present and rationalize design strategy and decisions to diverse audiences including executives, using these opportunities to educate and evangelize.
• The ability to work and teach across a cross-functional product team, moving effortlessly between the smallest details to high level strategy.
• A degree in Interaction Design, Psychology, HCI or demonstrated proficiency and have equivalent professional experience
• An awareness of user research methodologies and user data analysis (quantitative and qualitative)

BONUS 

• A passion for strategy games
• Experience working with a distributed team

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter interaktiver Unterhaltungssoftware. EA bietet Spiele, Inhalte und Online-Dienste für internetfähige Spielkonsolen, Personalcomputer, Mobiltelefone und Tablets an.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 22

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA engagiert sich für Chancengleichheit und Gleichstellung. Alle Personalentscheidungen werden unabhängig von Ethnie, Hautfarbe, Herkunft, Abstammung, Geschlecht, Geschlechtsidentität oder ausgelebtem Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Alter, genetischer Information, Religion, Behinderung, Krankheit, Schwangerschaft, Familienstand oder Veteranenstatus getroffen. EA sorgt außerdem für die durch geltendes Gesetz vorgeschriebenen Anpassungen am Arbeitsplatz für Individuen mit anerkannten Behinderungen.