Senior Experience Designer (Contract)

Requisition Number: 176024

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

Senior Experience Designer (contract)

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

At Maxis, we thrive on outrageous thinking. 

 

It’s the fuel that inspires the best games in the world. We’re creators and great storytellers. Our mission is not just about amazing our peers – it’s about amazing our fans. Taking risks, collaborating with each other and daring to dream big. Together, we can improve the way millions play every day. 

 

The Sims is looking for a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer, with experience leading design on large-scale products/games and experience working on internal content creation tools, game engines, and/or live services in either game or non-gaming products. You should excel in a collaborative and iterative environment and lead the development of the user interface and related systems from initial prototypes through final design. 

 

You will work with your engineering, game design, research, and experience design partners to enhance the usability and efficiency of game development on a franchise played by millions of gamers around the world. 

 

Responsibilities

• Drive user-centered design processes to provide outstanding design solutions for Maxis proprietary tools and game engine.
• Partner closely with XD Director, UX Research Director, and the larger XD team.
• Establish a consistent and comprehensive design system for reuse and future extensibility as our dev tools grow.
• Be a promoter of usability, inclusiveness, and accessibility.
• Lead design solutions that are informed by user data and research.
• Partner with user research to conduct studies on future work, analyze the data, and formulate results.
• Craft UX artifacts: experience maps, flows, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Architect player flows, screens, content, and states that promote ease of use and comprehension while balancing user and business goals within technical constraints.
• Partner with various team members and current users while leading the initiative to explore creative solutions, produce prototypes, iterate based on testing results, and ensure quality implementation.

 

Qualifications

• An advanced level of experience as a UX designer, interaction designer, product designer or similar role. Your experience includes some combination of: internal tools for content creation, live service and gaming products.
• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating user-centered designs across a range of digital products. Creating research and data informed designs that meet user needs and business goals.
• Experience partnering with UXR and analysts to drive planning and find opportunities for research.
• Familiarity with qualitative and quantitative user research methods and experience incorporating insights from analysis into designs
• Knowledge of usability principles and designing for accessibility, diversity, and inclusivity.
• You understand the importance of providing and soliciting feedback in a graceful, constructive manner, with suggestions and solutions for improvement to both process and project.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, an optimistic outlook, and the desire to inspire excellence.
• Comfortable presenting cohesive design solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proficiency in multiple modern design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Adobe CC, etc.
• Familiarity with The Sims 4, The Sims franchise and the life simulation genre is a plus.

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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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: 20

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

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.