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Experience Design Director, XD

Experience Design Director, XD - EA SPORTS™ FC

Vancouver, Canada

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

After nearly 30 years of creating genre-defining, interactive football experiences with the world's biggest football entertainment platform, EA SPORTS FIFA , we are soon beginning an exciting new era. EA SPORTS FC will become the future of football from EA SPORTS – as we strive to take global football experiences to new heights, on behalf of football fans everywhere.

With more opportunity than ever to innovate and create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to a global community of fans, we invite you to join us and pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS!

As part of FIFA, the ultimate purpose of this team is to be a catalyst for meaningful and impactful innovation and change.

You lead by example. You imagine, create, direct, and inspire exceptional outcomes. Your work speaks for itself, but you understand the value of storytelling and narrative. Your team, peers, and colleagues respect your design skills. You have highly developed skills as a designer and a creative leader. You believe that form and function share a symbiotic relationship. You're ready for a challenge, one that is design-led, one that asks you to steer an elite Experience Design Team to new heights.

Your work is a bar raiser, and your philosophies help designers produce exceptional work. You have a track record of leading visual identities and design systems for complex multi-platform UI experiences. You are a change agent that establishes new standards for quality, cohesion, consistency, and craft.

If this sounds like you, and you're in it to do career-defining work, read on and consider being a part of EA's most successful franchise of all time, EA SPORTS™ FC. You will report to Director of Experience Design

Key Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience as a creative visionary, leader, and practitioner.
• Extensive hands-on and leadership skills across UX, UI, IA, and creative direction.
• Extensive skills in multi-sensory composition, mapping complex interactions across sound design, visual design, and motion design.
• Architect and lead world-class, future-focused visual design and UI for FIFA.
• Proven track record of working with and leading high-performing design and creative teams.
• Advocate for design excellence, craftsmanship, and ease-of-use, in all directions.
• Broad spectrum experience in leveraging UX research and insights to drive strategy
• Evangelize and educate on the value of robust visual design systems that inspire higher efficiency, more consistent quality standards, scalable solutions, and repeatable patterns.
• Facilitate and lead collaboration and creative alignment with cross-functional partners.
• Continuously seek trend-setting opportunities to support innovation.
• Direct and design systems that have broad reach, depth of detail, and a bias for context.
• Forge a discipline and team culture that delivers exceptional design consistently while maintaining an environment of teamwork, inclusion, and compassion.
• Attract, recruit, train, and retain the best.

US COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. 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

• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):
º $157,450 - $245,500
• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):
º $154,950 - $245,500
• New Jersey (depending on location e.g. Jersey City vs. Trenton):
º $154,950 - $245,500
• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):
º $154,950 - $223,350
• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):
º $154,950 - $223,350

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby (following 1 year of service), medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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