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Experience Designer, Handheld Experiences - EA SPORTSTM FC

Electronic Arts
Vancouver, CAN
Mid
Hybrid
Discovered 1 months ago
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

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