Experience Designer I - - EA SPORTS FC

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

EA SPORTS FC is seeking a designer to partner with product managers, producers, engineers and fellow designers to create meaningful, high-impact experiences within the live service. The designer owns design and integration across multiple layers of the player experience, balancing creative exploration with practical execution.

You will help define the future roadmap for the Live Platform, designing for today’s players while evolving the platform for tomorrow’s experiences.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in game development or product design.
• Strong portfolio linking form and function to intuitive experiences.
• Excellent visual craft in UI, typography, and composition.
• Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Suite, or similar.
• Experience with design systems and working within constraints.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, producers, engineers, and designers to create meaningful, high-impact experiences within the live service.
• Design within real constraints to integrate live events, seasonal content, partnerships, and real-world moments.
• Own design across multiple layers of the player experience.
• Balance creative exploration with practical execution.
• Help define the future roadmap for the Live Platform experience.
• Bring creativity, coherence, and player meaning to a constantly evolving live game.

Skills

UI/UX design

Visual craft

Systems thinking

Storytelling

Cross-functional

Design systems

Tools

Figma

Adobe Suite

Job description

About the Role

This role partners closely with product managers, producers, engineers, and fellow designers to create meaningful, high-impact experiences within EA SPORTS FC's live service. It is deeply embedded in the shipped product, designing within real constraints to thoughtfully integrate live events, seasonal content, partnership opportunities, and real-world moments. The designer owns design and design integration across multiple layers of the player experience, balancing creative exploration with practical execution. The focus is on designing for what players experience today while helping to define the future roadmap for the Live Platform experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with product managers, producers, engineers, and fellow designers to create meaningful, high-impact experiences within the live service.
• Design within real constraints to thoughtfully integrate live events, seasonal content, partnership opportunities, and real-world moments.
• Own design and design integration across multiple layers of the player experience.
• Balance creative exploration with practical execution.
• Design for the experiences players have today while helping to define the future roadmap for the Live Platform experience.
• Bring creativity, coherence, and player meaning to a constantly evolving live game.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in game development or product design.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating the ability to connect form and function into intuitive and scalable experiences.
• Strong visual craft across UI, typography, and composition, with the ability to create polished, engaging, premium-quality player experiences.
• Proficiency in modern design and prototyping tools (Figma, Adobe Suite, or similar).
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to design within existing frameworks and constraints.
• Experience working with, contributing to, or creating design systems.
• A solid foundation in typography, layout, composition, and interaction patterns.
• Strong storytelling, presentation, and design rationale skills, with the ability to clearly communicate creative decisions, align stakeholders, and advocate for player-centric solutions.
• Ability to independently drive design initiatives from concept to implementation within a complex live-service environment, balancing creative ambition with production realities.
• A collaborative mindset and comfort working cross-functionally across a large organisation.
• A strong graphic design foundation, with experience creating expressive visual content for campaigns and branded elements, as well as editorial layouts for in-game communication.
• Basic to solid 3D craft skills, with the ability to create immersive 3D scenes and game assets.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working on live service games.
• Passion for games and interactive entertainment.
• Affinity for football (soccer).
• Illustration experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Three weeks of vacation per year to start.
• 10 days of sick time per year.
• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Basic life insurance.

The Application Process

1. Include a portfolio link, with a password if applicable.
2. Be prepared to show recent accomplishments, processes, case studies, or projects.
3. Candidates are encouraged to get in touch even if they do not meet all of the criteria.

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 to The World's Game through innovation and unrivaled authenticity. There is more opportunity than ever to design, innovate, and create new, immersive experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and connection to fans everywhere, and the team describes itself as passionate and dynamic as it pioneers the future of football fandom.