Experience Designer - College Football

Electronic Arts • Vancouver, BC

4h • CA$104,500 - CA$142,800 • Hybrid

About The Position

Electronic Arts is hiring a mid-level Experience Designer to support the College Football franchise within EA SPORTS. The role contributes to immersive, accessible, and visually polished user experiences that support player engagement, competitive clarity, and polished presentation. The designer works with a cross-disciplinary team on UI/UX for gameplay, live services, and navigation. This is a 12-month temporary hybrid position based in Orlando, Florida, or Vancouver, British Columbia; relocation is not supported. The position reports to the Lead Experience Designer - Visual/Product.

The designer creates and prototypes interfaces and interaction flows, translates design goals into wireframes, user flows, high-fidelity mockups, and animated prototypes, and helps maintain design systems aligned with the game’s visual identity. The role advocates for usability, accessibility, and readability, incorporates playtest, user research, and stakeholder feedback, researches gaming and sports-media UI/UX trends, and works with engineers to support faithful, performant implementation.

The role calls for 3–5 years of UX/UI or product-design experience on shipped games or interactive products, strong visual and interaction design skills, proficiency with industry-standard design tools, effective collaboration and communication, and a portfolio showcasing UX/UI work. Sports gaming experience, a relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, football enthusiasm, live-service or large-scale game-system experience, and familiarity with console UI constraints are advantageous.

For British Columbia, the stated pay range is CAD $104,500–$142,800, depending on location. EA lists Canadian benefits including three weeks of vacation per year to start, 10 days of sick time per year, extended health, dental, and vision coverage, and basic life insurance. EA also describes broader benefits that may vary by location and include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, and complimentary games.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of UX/UI or product-design experience on shipped games or interactive products.
• Strong visual design and interaction design skills, attention to detail, and understanding of player needs.
• Proficiency with industry-standard design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, or Principle.
• Ability to contribute to collaborative brainstorming, rapid prototyping, and iteration based on team and user feedback.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, openness to feedback, and ability to articulate design intent and rationale.
• A portfolio showcasing UX/UI work, ideally including game-related or sports-related examples.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in sports gaming or understanding of sports UI flows.
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, Game Design, or equivalent experience.
• Passion for football, whether playing, watching, or designing for fans.
• Experience working on live-service titles or large-scale game systems with multiple player modes.
• Familiarity with console game UI constraints and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype user interfaces and interaction flows for gameplay, live services, and navigation.
• Collaborate with senior designers, product managers, engineers, and artists on player-centric design solutions.
• Translate design goals into wireframes, user flows, high-fidelity mockups, and animated prototypes.
• Maintain and evolve design systems consistent with the game’s visual identity.
• Advocate for usability, accessibility, and readability in an iterative development environment.
• Use feedback from internal playtests, user research, and stakeholders to refine and polish designs.
• Research UI/UX trends in gaming and sports media and present new ideas.
• Work with engineers to support implementation fidelity and performance.

Benefits

• Three weeks of vacation per year to start in Canada.
• 10 days of sick time per year in Canada.
• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage in Canada.
• Basic life insurance in Canada.
• Broader location-dependent benefits may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, and complimentary games.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed