About the Role This is a design role within the EA SPORTS FC team, owning the end-to-end player experience for features from concept through ship, with a particular focus on extending the established FC Design System to handheld contexts. The work involves defining input models and navigation paths for touch and platform-specific input, and ensuring platform requirements and first-party guidelines are met. The team is described as passionate and dynamic, working to pioneer the future of football fandom.
Key Responsibilities Own the end-to-end player experience for features, from concept through ship, including flows, wireframes, high-fidelity design, motion and haptic direction, and support through implementation.
Leverage and contribute to the established FC Design System, extending it for the handheld context.
Define input models and navigation paths for touch and platform-specific input, making the 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 localization and accessibility standards in the work and advocate for what great looks like.
Required Experience & Qualifications 3+ years designing shipped, player-facing interfaces for games or interactive entertainment, mobile, console or handheld.
Touch-first interaction design expertise, including 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.
Ability to design for primary input, matching navigation, clear focus and selection states, and consistent conventions.
Strong visual craft evidenced in a portfolio, including typography, grid and layout, spacing and hierarchy, and colour used to carry state and meaning rather than decoration; work should have a point of view and aim to bring to life intuitive and innovative patterns.
Treating motion, sound and haptics as core material rather than final polish, designing moments where a transition, an audio cue and a rumble land together to make a selection feel physical.
Design system fluency,



including the 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.
Preferred Skills 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.
Benefits & Perks 3 weeks of vacation 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 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 plan for regular full time employees.
Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
About the Company 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 through innovation and unrivaled authenticity. We invite passionate and dynamic individuals to join the team as we pioneer the future of football fandom, building joyful experiences and pushing the boundaries of our games.

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📌 Experience Designer, Handheld Experiences - EA SPORTS FC (British Columbia)
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