About the role
General Information
Locations: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Worker Type: Regular Employee
Studio/Department: EA Studios - SPORTS
Work Model: Hybrid
Description
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. 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.
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.
- 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.
- Treat motion, sound, and haptics as core material; designing moments where a transition, an audio cue, and a rumble land together.
- Design system fluency: ability to build and document components with variants and states, scale across screen contexts, and articulate when patterns should be reused, extended, or broken.
- Define when console layouts can scale dynamically to handheld screen size versus when they must diverge into bespoke, handheld-specific UI layouts.
- Own the UX for platform-specific states and compliance requirements, including transitions for device suspend/resume, inactivity dimming, offline play, and variable network conditions.
- Leverage best-in-class localization and accessibility standards.
- Fluency in Figma at a systems level, comfort with AI-based prototyping tools (e.g., Claude Code, Figma Make).
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end player experience for features, from concept through ship: flows, wireframes, high-fidelity design, motion and haptic direction, and support through implementation.
- Leverage and contribute to an established FC Design System, extending it for handheld context.
- Define input models and navigation paths for touch and platform-specific input, ensuring seamless transitions.
- 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 to ensure certification readiness.
Nice to have
- 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, sufficient to prototype in-engine.
- Experience with diegetic or in-world UI.
Compensation and Benefits
Pay Range:
- British Columbia (depending on location): $104,500 - $142,800 CAD
Benefits:
- Vacation: 3 weeks per year to start.
- Sick Time: 10 days per year.
- Parental Leave: Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary (12 weeks for maternity, 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave).
- Insurance: Extended health, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
- Retirement: Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
- Additional: Certain roles may be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs; includes access to complimentary games.
About Electronic Arts
EA values adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. The company employs a holistic approach to wellness, covering physical, emotional, financial, career, and community needs. 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. Workplace accommodations are provided for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by law.