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Senior Creative Director - UFC

Senior Creative Director - UFC

Vancouver, Canada or Remote

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. The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe. It delivers fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime.

As the Senior Creative Director for EA SPORTS UFC, you will be responsible for establishing and realizing the creative vision of our games. You will inspire passion to create innovative experiences our players will love. Your approach to leadership will be collaborative and inclusive as you leverage ideas and opportunities from our EA SPORTS Publishing team and UFC. And you will champion a culture of curiosity and experimentation to enable us to learn, grow, and share.

Your Responsibilities

• Leads the creative process to develop an innovative vision for our game.
• Manages a team of creatives within the game development team.
• Collaborates with Publishing, organization leaders, and partners to align strategies.
• Defines, evolves, and evangelizes creative best practices within the team.
• Contributes to defining multi-year live roadmaps aligned with strategic priorities.
• Designs systems and features that address product and business goals.
• Creates frameworks for gaining player insights and data analysis within the game.
• Drives clarity on the core player experience, success criteria, and tuning metrics.

Your Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience working as a Designer for console games.
• Experience leading a team as a creative director or lead game designer.
• Passionate about growing vibrant gaming communities through live service games.
• Interest in the sport of UFC and MMA including its culture, fighters, and fans.
• Manages and coaches a medium to large creative team.
• Achieves business objectives through game design and player insights.
• Applies creative frameworks to drive predictability and quality in development.
• Employs a positive, collaborative, inclusive, and fun approach to game development.

Ceci ne s’applique pas au Québec.

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 $151,800 - $208,900 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.