Design Technologist - EA SPORTS FC (Companion App)
Vancouver, Canada
EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.
Building on an incredible 30 year foundation, we’re redefining football with EA SPORTS FC - a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences, bringing a global community of football fans closer to The World's Game. Together, we’re taking the largest football club in the world to new heights – and this is just the beginning! With more opportunity than ever to innovate and create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to fans everywhere, we invite you to join us as we pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS FC, and welcome everyone to the club!
We at EA Sports have reached the next level of cohesion and craft by evolving into a modern Experience Design practice that brings UX and UI together, understanding that neither exists in a vacuum. We are currently looking for an enthusiastic and collaboration-oriented Design Technologist for the FC Companion Mobile App to transform the mobile app to a highly delightful and state of the art mobile gaming experience. This person will translate and bridge the gap between visuals and animations with our technology, by combining artistic skills and experience with programming and scripting. The mission is to transform the gaming vision and experience of FC into an elegant and intuitive mobile experience that seamlessly integrates into a delightful user experience of FC.
You will work closely with the Game Design Director and your partners from the Experience Design Team, Engineering, Game Design, Production, Art Direction and Creative Direction to create experiences that surprise, delight and inspire millions of players around the world to play. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work and be a part of EA's most successful franchise – EA SPORTS FC.
Your Responsibilities
- Translate design mockups into functional screens and UI components, maintaining visual accuracy and consistency with design guidelines.
- Work closely with Experience Designers, Engineers, Producers, and Game Design to implement versatile front-end solutions for player’s experiences on mobile.
- Explore product concepts to find promising directions that address both human and business needs.
- Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from producers, experience designers, and researchers.
- Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in front-end technologies.
- UI animations and effects creation using Web and React Native
- Creation of micro interactions and animations (After effects, Lottie, Rive, SVG, CSS and Javascript animations)
- Apply proper art optimization techniques in art assets
- Quickly identify and debug art and animation related issues
- Leverage and evolve an established FC Design System and Visual Identity when crafting visual and interactive solutions.
- Experience building on brand and expanding brands
- Collaborate with engineering and art, explaining both the art team needs and the tech constraints
- Document tools and workflows on the internal Wiki
- High fidelity rapid prototyping for UX evaluation
Your Qualifications
- Technical skills, and ability to quickly learn new proprietary production tools and workflow
- Adept or be able to quickly learn various Object Oriented programming languages and scripts (e.g. Javascript, HTML, CSS, React, Storybook)
- Familiar with scripting languages like Python
- Proficient with Adobe CC (Photoshop, After Effects) and other graphics and animation applications
- 1+ years of experience creating 3D motion graphics, or interfaces with game engines such as Unreal or Unity
- Visual animation and programming
Other Preferred Skills/Qualifications
- Understanding of user experience principles
- Knowledge around ios and android patterns
- Understanding of revision version control software. Knowledge of Perforce is ideal
- Degree in a relevant visual art or technical subject highly desired (e.g. BSc Computer Science or Game Programming , Game Art and Design Diploma)
- Bonus Points: Passion for sports (Football) and sports games
