Electronic Arts

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About the Team: At our core, Electronic Arts is a game maker connecting hundreds of millions of players globally to some of the world’s greatest games. The EAX team is crucial to creating that connection through products that grow and engage our community of players. Some of our work includes: EA PLAY, our multi-platform subscription for PC, PS4, Xbox One and Steam; the EA desktop app, EA’s direct-to-consumer PC games platform; and a host of other consumer experiences and strategies, all with the goal of engaging players across platforms and within our games.

The Player Connection team within EAX exists to help studios and teams across EA create the most welcoming, meaningful and resilient  social experiences for players.  You will report to the Sr Director of Player Connection, where you will advise teams in building the best social systems to meaningfully connect players by translating and communicating your social design expertise into tools, frameworks, and media that will guide the social design process across EA. Come join us! We're hiring a Social Systems Designer to join EA's Player Connection team.

The Opportunity Ahead: As a designer on the Player Connection team, your skills and expertise will be invaluable as we aim to more meaningfully connect a diverse range of players across the entire EA portfolio. In partnership with the Player Connection Team, you'll help re-imagine how players socialize, connect, collaborate, and play together. Interfacing with studios and teams across EA, you will lend your expertise to the research, design, and implementation of best in class social experiences. You have a blend of experience looking at problems that span across multiple disciplines of design and are energized by tackling unique interdisciplinary problems that don't fit neatly into a single category.

Responsibilities:

• Guide the research, design, and implementation of cohesive social strategies (from high level strategy conception, to ground level feature design) with respective partners

• In partnership with the Senior Producer, define a clear, forward-looking vision for social features and requirements; Create player-centered design processes to provide world-class design solutions

• Analyze and identify social features and experiences both in gaming and outside the industry

• Collaborate with partner Studio groups to define, evolve and expand social systems and experiences based on player telemetry and feedback

• Work with our cross-disciplinary team to improve our social offerings through playtesting and feedback, and promote a data-informed and iterative creative process

• Embrace and advocate for the social needs and expectations of diverse audiences, as well as explore new ways of promoting positive social engagement

• Working with our Lead Behavioural Scientist and Senior Social Systems Designer, create and maintain a deep knowledge base of up to date social design research as an EA-wide resource

Qualifications:

• Experience in product design, social games, or related fields 

• Experience developing social platforms, social game mechanics, or other relevant products that connect people to one another 

• Knowledge of UX and/or UI design with an understanding of the user experience 

• Expertise in creating social experiences that bring users and user generated content (UGC) together in new and unexpected ways

• Proficiency in a variety of design tools (eg. Sketch, Figma, Miro, Adobe Suite, etc.)

• A strong interest in multiplayer design for PC and console games

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). 

PAY RANGES

In British Columbia, we 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.