About the Role The Cinematic Designer is responsible for integrating complex animations into the game engine to industry standards, working closely with Animators, Artists, and Software Engineers. The role includes creating compelling action and emotionally motivated moments, upholding cinematic standards, and managing scope and budget to meet deadlines. The position sits within the EA Sports FC team, which is redefining football with a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences.
Key Responsibilities Create compelling action and emotionally motivated moments.
Implement cinematics into engine matching standards and processes; triage issues and collaborate with Animation.
Uphold established cinematic standards across the game and broader IP to maintain a design language.
Manage the scope and budget of assigned tasks to meet project deadlines without jeopardizing the player's experience.
Participate in reviews, stand-ups, playtests, and work across departments.
Help develop and collaborate new concepts to functional prototypes alongside the guidance of Production, Animation, Cinematics and Software Engineer teams.
Help implement scalable industry workflows and enforce best practices for developing a non-linear, dynamic, and immersive and seamless real-time experience for users.
Work side-by-side with engineers to develop new game content solutions, tools and pipelines for animators and designers in the animation space.
Required Experience & Qualifications 3+ years of professional game design experience.
One or more shipped titles in a Cinematic, Animation, or Narrative Design capacity.




Familiarity and experience with one or more game engine cinematic tools.
Experience with cinematic language, frame composition, pacing, tone, and narrative structure.
Work collaboratively, receive feedback, and constructively critique peers.
Experienced Technical Cinematic Designer, with a broad range of implementation workflows from traditional non-interactive to seamless semi-interactive cinematics.
Experience with problem-solving, positive at manipulating content and providing innovative solutions.
Experience working and developing with advanced animation rigs.
Understanding of cinematic production. Motion Capture, scene assembly, export/import cinematic pipelines, implementation into engine and iteration workflows.
Experience working with, and providing feedback to both artists and technical artists/animators.
Proficient in standard industry tools such as Autodesk Maya/Motionbuilder.
Highly self-motivated and ability to work under tight deadlines.
Experience with managing cinematics pipelines and workflows.
Experience with leading teams and reviewing content.
Benefits & Perks Vacation (3 weeks per year to start)
10 days per year of sick time
Extended health/dental/vision coverage
Basic life insurance
About the Company 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. Building on an incredible 30 year foundation, we're redefining football with EA SPORTS FC - a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences, bringing a global community of football fans closer to The World's Game.

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📌 Cinematic Designer - EA SPORTS FC (British Columbia)
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