Experience Designer, Handheld Experiences - EA SPORTS FC

EA SPORTS; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 105,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

EA SPORTS FC is seeking an Experience Designer for Handheld Experiences in Vancouver to define the user interface across handheld platforms. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, researchers, and product managers to create tactile, immersive, and accessible experiences for fans on mobile and handheld devices.

Responsibilities include end-to-end feature design, system-wide handheld UI, rapid prototyping in-engine, and advancing the FC Design System while ensuring platform requirements

Qualifications

• 3+ years designing shipped, player-facing interfaces for games or interactive entertainment.
• Touch-first interaction design with thumb reach and immediate feedback.
• Strong visual craft with typography, grid and hierarchy to convey meaning.
• Fluency in Figma at a systems level and ability to document components.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end player experience for features, from concept through ship.
• Leverage and contribute to the FC Design System for handheld contexts.
• Define input models and navigation for touch and platform-specific input.
• Prototype and evaluate on hardware early and often.
• Partner with designers, producers, engineers, research, and product managers.

Skills

Shipped a handheld title

Unity

Unreal/UMG

Prototyping in-engine

Design system fluency

Diegetic UI

Tools

Unity

Unreal/UMG

Proprietary UI framework

Job description

Description & RequirementsElectronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

Description & RequirementsElectronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen. Experience Designer, Handheld Experiences - EA SPORTS™ FC As one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, EA SPORTS FC is redefining football with genre‑leading interactive experiences, connecting a global community of fans to The World’s Game through innovation and unrivaled authenticity. With more opportunity than ever to design, innovate, and create new, immersive experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and connection to fans everywhere, we invite you to join our passionate and dynamic team as we pioneer the future of football fandom.

• 3+ years designing shipped, player‑facing interfaces for games or interactive entertainment, mobile, console or handheld.
• Touch‑first interaction design: direct manipulation, a coherent gesture vocabulary, thumb reach and grip zones, targets sized for fingers rather than cursors, scroll and drag physics with real weight, and immediate feedback in a world that has no hover state.
• You’re designing for primary input: matching navigation, clear focus and selection states, and consistent conventions.
• Strong visual craft, with evidence in your portfolio: typography, grid and layout, spacing and hierarchy, and color used to carry state and meaning rather than decoration. Your work has a point of view and aims to bring to life intuitive and innovative patterns.
• You treat motion, sound, and haptics as core material rather than final polish. You design moments where a transition, an audio cue, and a rumble land together and make a selection feel physical.
• Design system fluency. You can build and document a component with its variants and states, make it scale across screen contexts, and articulate when a pattern should be reused, extended, or deliberately broken.
• Define when console layouts can scale dynamically to handheld screen size versus when they must diverge into bespoke, handheld‑specific UI layouts to prevent compromised readability and interactivity.
• Own the UX for platform‑specific states and compliance requirements, designing transitions for device suspend/resume, inactivity dimming, offline play, and variable network conditions.
• Leverage best‑in‑class localization and accessibility standards in your work. Advocate for what great looks like.
• Fluency in Figma at a systems level, comfort with AI‑based prototyping tools e.g. Claude Code, Figma Make, etc.

• Own the end‑to‑end player experience for your features, from concept through ship: flows, wireframes, high‑fidelity design, motion and haptic direction, and support through implementation.
• Leverage & contribute to an established FC Design System, extending it for handheld context.
• Define input models and navigation paths for touch and platform‑specific input, and make the transitions between them feel seamless.
• Prototype and evaluate on hardware early and often.
• Partner with game designers, producers, engineers, research, and product managers to make the feel of the interface a shared, deliberate outcome.
• Work within platform requirements and first‑party guidelines so that certification is a checkpoint rather than a late scramble.

• Shipped a title on handheld platforms (ex: Mobile, Switch 1/2, ROG Ally, MSI Claw, Steam Deck)
• Hands‑on experience with Unity, Unreal/UMG, or a proprietary UI framework, enough to prototype in‑engine or reason about what is implementable.
• Experience with diegetic or in‑world UI

At EA, we believe our future is to build joyful experiences and push the boundaries of our games and we want your help and expertise in doing so. If this resonates with you and you have something to contribute, please contact us, even if you don’t meet all of the criteria above.

Pay Transparency - North America Compensation And Benefits The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$104,500 - $142,800 CAD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. For Canada, we 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 other incentive programs.

About Electronic Arts We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth. We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well‑being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

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