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Lead Live Service Visual Designer - NHL

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connecting millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. EA SPORTS NHL has revolutionized sports gaming for tens of millions of players around the world, pioneering award-winning and creative technology and experiences that connect players to the speed, skill, and creativity of the NHL.

The EA SPORTS NHL franchise is founded on passion and new ideas. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the team is composed of remarkable talent on a mission to accomplish on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play. The EA Sports NHL team is looking for a Lead Live Service Visual Designer who is passionate about creating engaging graphic campaign content, solving complex problems and building experiences to delight our players

What you will do:

• You understand how the EA audience works with its games/services, and make use of this knowledge in the development of live art content
• You will design the visual brand identities for Hockey Ultimate Team live service content campaigns
• Partner with a team of game designers, producers, engineers, and artists to understand requirements and work with your art team to meet the needs based on common goals
• Set expectations and priorities for Ultimate Team art content deliverables and work with the development manager on scope, scheduling, and risk mitigation
• Collaborate with the UI/UX design team to ensure that live content art deliverables are additive to the player experience in multiple touch points within the HUT experience
• You will be an advocate for team health & culture and help to build an environment where your creative team can do their best work
• Look for ways to improve the quality of work: this includes new tools, training, structure of the team and more
• You will report to the Experience Design Director

Qualifications:

• 6+ Years of experience in Graphic Design or Visual Design Roles
• 2+ Years of experience in an Art Lead role
• A portfolio of work that showcases relevant work that contains well thought out process and excellent craft execution
• You have experience working with multiple stylistic approaches
• You have excellent comprehension and use of illustration, iconography, typography, color, and layout for digital media
• Experience presenting/pitching work to your team
• Experienced with Adobe Suite and other collaborative design tools such as Figma and Miro