Experience Designer, Handheld Experiences - EA SPORTS™ FC

Owns the end-to-end player experience for features within EA SPORTS FC, from concept through ship, including flows, wireframes, high-fidelity design, motion and haptic direction, and support through implementation. The designer works on touch-first and platform-specific interaction design for games or interactive entertainment across mobile, console, or handheld. They partner with game designers, producers, engineers, research, and product managers to make the feel of the interface a shared, deliberate outcome.

• Own the end-to-end player experience for features from concept through ship, covering flows, wireframes, high-fidelity design, motion and haptic direction, and support through implementation.
• Leverage and 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 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.
• 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 localisation and accessibility standards, and advocate for what great looks like.

• 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.
• Designing for primary input: matching navigation, clear focus and selection states, and consistent conventions.
• Strong visual craft, with evidence in a portfolio: typography, grid and layout, spacing and hierarchy, and colour used to carry state and meaning rather than decoration; work has a point of view and aims to bring intuitive and innovative patterns to life.
• Treat motion, sound, and haptics as core material rather than final polish, designing moments where a transition, an audio cue, and a rumble land together and make a selection feel physical.
• Design system fluency: ability to 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.
• Fluency in Figma at a systems level, with comfort using AI-based prototyping tools such as Claude Code, Figma Make, etc.

• Shipped a title on handheld platforms (e.g. 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.

• In Canada, benefits include 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/vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits to regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and long-term cash programmes.

EA SPORTS FC is one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences and connecting a global community of fans to The World's Game through innovation and unrivalled authenticity. The team is passionate and dynamic, with more opportunity than ever to design, innovate, and create new, immersive experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and connection to fans everywhere.