Senior Art & Design Career Manager — EA SPORTS™ UFC

The Senior Art & Design Career Manager is a high-level organisational leader within the EA SPORTS UFC team, reporting to the Senior Creative Director. The role leads a department of managers, lead creatives, and individual contributors across multiple art and design disciplines. It is a pure people-leadership and organisational development position focused on building high-performing creative cultures, scaling career frameworks, navigating industry tool transformations, and mentoring future creative leaders.

• Lead a department of managers, lead creatives, and individual contributors across multiple art and design disciplines.
• Provide direct line management, coaching, and career development for Artists and Designers across multiple disciplines, and mentor, develop, and prepare future creative leads and art/design managers.
• Define, refine, and champion clear career pathways, competency grids, and promotion criteria studio-wide, ensuring transparency and equity across all creative levels.
• Partner with executive leadership on studio-wide headcount planning, creative team structuring, succession planning, and recruiting strategies to build a world-class creative culture.
• Organise and lead mentorship programmes, cross-project knowledge-sharing, and skill-acquisition initiatives to continuously elevate the studio's overall creative capabilities.
• Partner with Technical Art and Technical Design leadership to help creative teams navigate major industry shifts, including the adoption of AI-assisted design workflows, focusing on change management, skills transition, and ethical, high-impact tool integration.
• Cultivate a high-trust, diverse, and inclusive studio culture, and establish proactive initiatives, processes, and metrics to monitor department morale, resolve high-level personnel conflicts, and prevent creative burnout.

• 10+ years of professional experience within game development, VFX, or creative tech industries, with a deep understanding of art/design production pipelines.
• 5+ years of direct people leadership experience, including a proven track record of managing managers, lead artists/designers, or multi-disciplinary creative organisations of 10 to 20+ creatives.
• Expert-level experience with career pathing, goal setting, mediation, performance evaluation systems, and executive coaching.
• Demonstrated history of guiding creative teams through organisational shifts, tool chain transformations, and workflow evolutions (such as integrating AI-assisted tools) with empathy and clear communication.
• Strong experience in partner-hiring, with the ability to identify, recruit, and onboard senior creative talent based on long-term studio needs.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to align priorities, advocate for creative staff, and collaborate closely with HR, Recruiting, and Studio Leadership.

• Hybrid/onsite in Vancouver, 3 days per week: Tuesday to Thursday.

• The ranges listed 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 relevant business and candidate factors, such as education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs.
• Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and long-term cash programs.

• Vacation: 3 weeks per year to start.
• 10 days per year of paid sick time.
• Company top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave).
• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits to regular full-time employees.

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