Experience Designer, Handheld Experiences - EA SPORTS FC

Electronic Arts; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 3 weeks per year

Extended health/dental/vision coverage

Retirement plan for full-time staff

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks an Experience Designer, Handheld Experiences for EA SPORTS FC in Vancouver to own end-to-end handheld UX, emphasizing touch-first input, motion and haptics, and a scalable design system.

You will collaborate with designers, engineers, researchers, and product managers to shape intuitive handheld interfaces for mobile and handheld devices, ensuring accessibility and localization across platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years designing shipped, player-facing interfaces for games or interactive entertainment, mobile, console or handheld.
• Touch-first interaction design with gesture vocabulary and thumb reach considerations.
• Design for primary input with clear focus, states, and consistent conventions.
• Strong visual craft with typography, layout, spacing, and color as meaning.
• Design motion, sound, and haptics as core interaction material.
• Design system fluency: components, variants, and scalable patterns.
• Decide when handheld layouts diverge from console layouts for readability.
• Own UX for platform-specific states, including offline play and network variability.
• Prioritize localization and accessibility in design solutions.
• Fluency in Figma at system level; comfortable with AI prototyping tools.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end player experience for features from concept through ship.
• Contribute to and extend the FC Design System for handheld context.
• Define input models and navigation for touch and platform-specific input.
• Prototype and evaluate on hardware early and often.
• Collaborate with designers, producers, engineers, researchers, and PMs to ensure a deliberate UX outcome.
• Work with platform requirements to meet certification standards.

Skills

3+ years experience

Touch-first design

Primary input navigation

Visual craftsmanship

Motion, sound & haptics

Design system fluency

handheld UI scalability

Localization & accessibility

Figma proficiency

AI-assisted prototyping tools

Tools

Unity

Unreal/UMG

Proprietary UI framework

Figma Make

Job description

Role ID

215926

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

Work Model

Hybrid

Description & Requirements

Electronic 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Nice to have

• 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.

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).

PAY RANGES

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.

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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.