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.

City:

State:

Community / Marketing Title: Senior Experience Designer (Contract)

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.

EEOText: 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, Veteranenstatus oder anderer durch das Gesetz geschützte Charakteristiken getroffen. Wir berücksichtigen unter Einhaltung der geltenden rechtlichen Bestimmungen auch qualifizierte Kandidaten mit Vorstrafen. EA sorgt außerdem für die durch geltendes Gesetz vorgeschriebenen Anpassungen am Arbeitsplatz für Individuen mit anerkannten Behinderungen.

Days Open: 20

Can this position be remote?: 1

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.