Senior Experience Designer

Electronic Arts; Ontario; Remote; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a leading entertainment company as a Senior Experience Designer! In this exciting role, you will work on beloved mobile titles, crafting engaging player experiences that resonate with millions. Collaborate with talented artists and engineers to bring innovative ideas to life while advocating for design excellence and usability. Enjoy a vibrant work environment with great perks, including generous vacation time, health benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. This is your chance to make a significant impact in the gaming industry and help shape the future of interactive entertainment.

Benefits

3 weeks vacation per year

10 days sick time

Paid parental leave

Extended health/dental/vision coverage

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Free games

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in UX/UI design with a strong portfolio.
• Proficient in design tools like Figma and Unity.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to set design priorities and goals.
• Design wireframes, prototypes, and ensure usability standards.

Skills

User Experience Design

Interaction Design

Interface Design

Product Design

Prototyping

Accessibility

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or related field

Tools

Figma

Miro

Unity

Git

Job description

Role ID

208814

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

Flexible Work Arrangement

Off Site

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.

WE WANT YOUR BRAINS… PopCap is looking for brainy and skillful people with a passion for making the world’s best games. What’s in it for you? A super-fun environment, rewarding work, and lots of great perks. It takes big, delicious brains to make award-winning titles like Plants vs. Zombies that delight millions of players around the world every day. Are you up for the challenge?

We are looking for a “full stack” Senior Experience Designer to join us and help continue delivering a long-running and beloved IP to our players, Plants vs. Zombies! This artist will report to the Associate Experience Design Director and work on an upcoming Plants vs. Zombies mobile title. You will bring features and gameplay to life to guide the creation of the best player experiences, bringing the world of Plants vs. Zombies to life. You can design and implement great player experiences for mobile games with an eye for industry trends.

Responsibilities

1. Build relationships with artists, game designers, development directors, and producers to set design priorities and find balanced solutions for player, business, and technical goals.
2. Implement UI prefabs following established technical standards.
3. Partner with engineers to understand our existing technical frameworks to ensure designs are efficient and achievable without sacrificing quality of experience.
4. Design and refine concepts, wireframes, and prototypes; set clear experiential goals and use research along with team feedback to reach the best result.
5. Promote and oversee UX and UI guidelines, design principles and best practices such as heuristic evaluations/usability standards, archetype development, experience journey maps, prototyping, and user testing.
6. Advocate for design excellence, accessibility, and usability.

Qualifications

1. 5+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, interface designer, product designer or similar role.
2. Proficiency in design and collaboration tools such as Miro and Figma.
3. Proficiency with Unity and Git.
4. Proficiency working with and extending existing design systems.
5. A portfolio of shipped products from preproduction to release.
6. Familiarity with mobile games.
7. Familiarity with the Hybrid Casual/Tower Defense.

Please include a portfolio or some examples of your work with your application.

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).

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also 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 equity.

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 take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much 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.