Experience Designer, Handheld Experiences - EA SPORTS FC

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Vancouver; Presencial; CAD 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

3 weeks vacation per year

10 days sick time per year

Top-up EI/QPIP for new child

Extended health, dental and vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan for regular full-time

Bonus eligibility

Descripción de la vacante

EA SPORTS FC is seeking a design-focused professional to own the end-to-end player experience for features, from concept through ship, with emphasis on extending the FC Design System to handheld contexts.

You will define input models for touch and platform-specific input, prototype on hardware, and collaborate with designers, engineers and product managers to deliver intuitive, accessible interfaces aligned to first-party guidelines.

Formación

• 3+ years designing shipped, player-facing interfaces for games or interactive entertainment, mobile, console or handheld.
• Touch-first interaction design expertise with thumb reach, clear focus and no hover states.
• Ability to design for primary input with coherent navigation and consistent conventions.
• Strong visual craft with typography, grid, spacing, hierarchy and purposeful color use.”
• Motion, sound and haptics as core design materials to create tangible interactions.
• Design system fluency for building and documenting components across screen contexts.

Responsabilidades

• Own the end-to-end player experience for features from concept through ship, including flows, wireframes, high‑fidelity design, motion and haptic direction.
• Leverage and extend the FC Design System for handheld contexts.
• Define input models and navigation paths for touch and platform-specific input.
• Prototype and evaluate on hardware early and often.
• Collaborate with designers, producers, engineers, researchers and product managers to craft cohesive UI.

Conocimientos

Touch-first design

Design systems

Figma (systems level)

Prototyping

Localization & accessibility

Motion & haptics

Platform guidelines

Herramientas

Unity UI

Unreal/UMG

AI-based prototyping tools

Descripción del empleo

About the Role

This is a design role within the EA SPORTS FC team, owning the end-to-end player experience for features from concept through ship, with a particular focus on extending the established FC Design System to handheld contexts. The work involves defining input models and navigation paths for touch and platform-specific input, and ensuring platform requirements and first-party guidelines are met. The team is described as passionate and dynamic, working to pioneer the future of football fandom.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end player experience for features, from concept through ship, including flows, wireframes, high-fidelity design, motion and haptic direction, and support through implementation.
• Leverage and contribute to the established FC Design System, extending it for the handheld context.
• Define input models and navigation paths for touch and platform-specific input, making 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.
• 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 the work and advocate for what great looks like.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 3+ years designing shipped, player-facing interfaces for games or interactive entertainment, mobile, console or handheld.
• Touch-first interaction design expertise, including 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.
• Ability to design for primary input, matching navigation, clear focus and selection states, and consistent conventions.
• Strong visual craft evidenced in a portfolio, including typography, grid and layout, spacing and hierarchy, and colour used to carry state and meaning rather than decoration; work should have a point of view and aim to bring to life intuitive and innovative patterns.
• Treating motion, sound and haptics as core material rather than final polish, designing moments where a transition, an audio cue and a rumble land together to make a selection feel physical.
• Design system fluency, including the ability to 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.
• Fluency in Figma at a systems level, with comfort using AI-based prototyping tools such as Claude Code, Figma Make, etc.

Preferred Skills

• Shipped a title on handheld platforms (e.g., 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.

Benefits & Perks

• 3 weeks of vacation 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 welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave).
• Extended health, dental and vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.

About the Company

EA SPORTS FC is one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences and connecting a global community of fans through innovation and unrivaled authenticity. We invite passionate and dynamic individuals to join the team as we pioneer the future of football fandom, building joyful experiences and pushing the boundaries of our games.