Technical Experience Designer - UFC

Requisition Number: 171667

Position Title: Technical Artist 2

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Technical Experience Designer - UFC

 

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connecting millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe, delivering fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.

 

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime.

 

EA Sports is seeking a Technical Experience Designer to join our Experience Design (XD) team in an environment of passion, creativity, and refinement! This design role will focus on implementation of established design specs using sophisticated, proprietary authoring tools while simultaneously helping to shape our designs, visuals, and animations. The ideal candidate will be both visually creative and technologically savvy.

 

Your Responsibilities

• Using both proprietary software and third party tech to implement the visual design of the UX within the game.
• Collaborate with the XD team (UX/UI Designers, Engineers) to solve problems, refine workflows, and polish the UI to deliver a best-in-class user experience, from concept to ship.
• Collaborate with Engineers to define technical and data requirements.
• Prove out and champion best practices for UI architecture with a goal of organization reusability and with the thought of developing for a live product (easily updatable).
• Utilize graphics software to convert designs by artist into useable pieces for Game implementation.
• Rapidly iterate and develop solutions to design challenges while following creative and art direction

 

Your Qualifications

• Experience in creating fully functional and visually polished user interfaces
• Interest or aptitude in object-oriented programming. (C#, Java, AS3, etc)
• Deep knowledge of scripting languages.
• Excellent communicator (Verbal and written) and collaborator who can work with programmers, designers, and Artists
• Excellent problem solving skills: a successful candidate must be able to quickly identify and debug issues
• Willingness to learn proprietary production pipelines and workflows
• Deep Knowledge of Adobe CC suite.
• Excellent design sensibilities and the understanding of how animation & motion can enhance the end user experience for our user interfaces
• Good understanding of UX methodology, and Design theory
• Ability to work autonomously and think proactively
• Strong aptitude for creatively solving complex and challenging problems.
• Strong organization skills and the ability to both follow and define new conventions.
• Driven to create best in class AAA game UX.
• Able to work within tight technical restraints and proactively optimize to fit within guidelines
• Ability to quickly adapt to complex proprietary pipeline and authoring tools
• Collaboratively work alongside the UX team in a creative environment

 

Bonus Qualifications

• Avid gamer
• 2-year Visual Design program
• Skilled in Motion design and animation
• Experience working in Game engines such as Unity or Unreal
• Programming experience
• Understanding of Basic 3D and working in 3D or 2.5D space
• Interested in Games & Sports
• User driven design advocate

 

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. är ett globalt ledande mjukvaruföretag för interaktiv underhållning. EA levererar spel, innehåll och onlinetjänster för internetuppkopplade spelkonsoler, persondatorer, mobiltelefoner och surfplattor.

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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: 151

Can this position be remote?: 1

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