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Sr. Visual Designer - Live Service - Madden NFL

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 Mobile is a division of EA SPORTS dedicated to creating high-quality mobile sports games connected to some of the world's biggest gaming franchises, including EA SPORTS FIFA and EA SPORTS MADDEN NFL.

We are EA Sports

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.

The EA Sports Madden Design 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 Madden 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 UT 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 Visual Design Manager

Qualifications:

• 6+ Years of experience in Graphic Design or Visual Design Roles
• 2+ Years of experience in an Art Lead role on medium sized teams (5-10 people)
• 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

Bonus

• Experience designing features on a AAA game
• Experience with the full development lifecycle (shipped multiple products)
• 3D + Motion experience (i.e. Blender, Cinema 4D, etc.)

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 $90,550 - $137,700
• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):
º $86,150 - $137,700
• New Jersey (depending on location e.g. Jersey City vs. Trenton):
º $86,150 - $137,700
• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):
º $86,150 - $126,700
• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):
º $86,150 - $126,700

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.

About EA

We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers. We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game. Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.