Electronic Arts

UX Designer - EA SPORTS™ NHL

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.

EA SPORTS NHL has revolutionized sports gaming for millions of players worldwide. We’ve pioneered award-winning creative technology and experiences to connect players to the speed, skill, and heart of the NHL.

The ideal candidate is passionate about UX and evidence based design, and driven to deliver delightful user experiences. In addition to a deep comprehension of usability and human factors, we seek a determined and resourceful, detail-oriented team player. The UX Designer thrives in a highly collaborative, high pressure and iterative product environment.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design of the overall user experience of NHL Team

• Create innovative, emotive, and fun solutions to complex UX problems within strict technical limitations and tight deadlines

• Player First - understanding of our target audience, personas and the motivations that lead to deeper consumer engagement

• Hands-on Architect capable of cranking out several low fidelity wireframes in a day and interactive prototypes in a couple of days

• Conceptualize and effectively visually communicate UX ideas to get buy-in from stakeholders

• Own UX features end-to-end including: Creative/Feature Briefs, Milestone Deliverables, Change Requests, and Bug Tracking

• Work closely with partners to evaluate and translate research findings into actionable results
  
  

Competencies and Qualifications

• Bachelors of Science degree in HCI or a design-related field with Human Factors,

• 3+ years professional UX experience

• Experience designing complex user experiences across ideally console games or variety of products and/or services with microtransactions

• Core UX skills including human factors, psychology, UX principles, heuristics, guidelines etc.

• Takes initiative, doesn't wait to be asked and plans efficiently while avoiding analysis paralysis

• Commanding knowledge of Wireframing and Prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, OmniGraffle, Axure, Balsamic, Adobe Creative Suite) and the ability to produce low and high fidelity solutions

• A portfolio demonstrating a track record of successful UX problem-solving and high impact creative and emotional design solutions to complex problems

• Impeccable sensitivity to user goals, wants and needs, furthermore ability to prioritize against business goals

• Must be a deep thinker, can critically analyze UX and understands why and how it is successful

• Experience in data synthesis and evidence based design, has experience successfully maximizing AEM

• Nice to have: you play console games and have interest in sports/MMA