Web Designer (Contract) - Maxis

Requisition Number: 173806

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

Web Designer (Contract) - Maxis

Studio: Maxis

Location: Remote work in most US states

Duration: 6 months, 30-40 hrs / week

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. Our drive is to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play. As the developer of the Sims, we create games and experiences for millions of people around the world and are always looking for new ways to inspire our players. Maxis is a place where you can do what you love and help others grow while doing it; a place where your unique voice can be heard and seen. We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don’t settle for seeing the world only as it is but strive to build a world as it could be. Read on to see how you can join our team and dream big.

Maxis is looking for a Web Designer to support our efforts at reimagining our internal website / information hub. This person will work with multiple teams across the Maxis studio to understand, design, plan, track, and implement our internal website / information hub projects. A typical day will include conversations with project or business leaders, documentation and creative assets gathering, website architecture/content page framework building, and maintaining timeline and deliverables to ensure on time project completion. 

This person will report to the Director of Business Operations, Maxis.

Responsibilities:

• You will produce visual elements (concepts, mocks, sample pages & prototypes) consistent with studio brand and voice
• You will design the structure and implement an internal website/information hub for Maxis
• You will maintain regular communications within project partners and stakeholders
• You will maintain and report on roadmap status across the project(s)
• You will anticipate and escalate communications regarding risks, problems and roadblocks
• You will facilitate regular checkpoints with partners to maintain alignment and balanced solutions that adhere to users and business goals

Qualifications:

• Experienced in web design, information architecture and web programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Experience using modern CMSs. 
• Ability to translate project thoughts and specifications into an appealing design, and turning a design into a functional site
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects
• Proficiency in modern prototyping tools: Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD etc.
• Ability to communicate (written and verbal) with a broad range of audiences in a constructive manner
• Capable of coordinating different tasks in parallel
• You are adaptable in both communication and information gathering to achieve results in a quick-changing, dynamic environment
• Project management experience using the Google Suite and Miro

• You are comfortable presenting and rationalizing design strategy and decisions to diverse audiences

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. è un'azienda di software di intrattenimento interattivo leader globale. EA offre giochi, contenuti e servizi online per console collegate ad internet, personal computer, cellulari e tablet.

EEOText: EA promuove le pari opportunità. Qualsiasi decisione di impiego viene fatta senza discriminazione di razza, colore, nazionalità, origini, sesso, genere, identità o espressione di genere, orientamento sessuale, età, informazione genetica, religione, invalidità, condizione medica, gravidanza, stato civile, stato familiare, anzianità o qualsiasi altra caratteristica protetta dalla legge. Considereremo anche i candidati qualificati con fedina penale sporca, in virtù delle leggi applicabili. EA rende accessibile il posto di lavoro per gli individui diversamente abili, come indicato dalla legge.

Days Open: 70

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA promuove le pari opportunità. Qualsiasi decisione di impiego viene fatta senza discriminazione di razza, colore, nazionalità, origini, sesso, genere, identità o espressione di genere, orientamento sessuale, età, informazione genetica, religione, invalidità, condizione medica, gravidanza, stato civile, stato familiare o anzianità. EA rende accessibile il posto di lavoro per gli individui diversamente abili, come indicato dalla legge.