Experience Designer - UX - Madden NFL

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in interactive entertainment. We develop games, content and online services across platforms. We have a broad portfolio of brands that span the most popular genres.

We exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow our employees to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers.

What you will do:

• Help establish product design principles, processes and standards to ensure we build engaging game feature experiences that meet the expectations of our players
• Advocate and be responsible for user experience, product consistency, and design excellence in 1 to 2 major areas of the product
• Create user stories, concept sketches, experience storyboards, low-mid fidelity designs, and rapid prototypes for game features
• Collaborate with our UX Research Team to identify areas of opportunity and uncover player needs
• Collaborate with Game Designers to understand game area mechanics and translate them into fun interactive experiences
• Ensure that design solutions are practical to build from an engineering and scope perspective
• Organise meetings with design and product leadership to guide progress against goals and establish clear next steps
• Participate in sharing constructive feedback in design reviews based on product goals
• Articulate rationale for design decisions across all levels in the organisation

Qualifications

• 4+ years of progressive responsibility in product design or user experience design roles
• Experience presenting/pitching work to your team
• Well versed in facilitation techniques that allow groups to build clarity and understanding
• A portfolio of work that showcases relevant work that contains well thought out process and excellent craft execution
• You are experienced in Figma and the Adobe Suite
• BS or BA degree (or equivalent experience) in Human-Computer Interaction, UX/UI/Design Diploma or Degree, or a related area
• You will report to the Lead UX Designer
• Bonus: Experience working in Games, Avid Gamer

Bonus

• Experience with the full development lifecycle (shipped multiple products)

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BC COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria):
º $96,400 - $133,900 CAN Annually

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.