# Senior Art & Design Career Manager — EA SPORTS™ UFC

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts creates incredible entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. Here, everyone is part of the story, part of a community that connects people globally. It's a place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are welcomed, and ideas matter. The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers an electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe. It delivers fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.

As a Senior Art & Design Career Manager , EA SPORTS™ UFC, you will be a high-level organisational leader responsible for the long-term career progression, discipline health, and operational structures supporting creative staff. You will lead a department of managers, lead creatives, and individual contributors across multiple art and design disciplines. This is a pure people-leadership and organisational development role. You will focus entirely on building high-performing creative cultures, scaling career frameworks, navigating industry tool transformations, and mentoring future creative leaders.

Responsibilities:

- Provide direct line management, coaching, and career development for Artists and Designers across multiple disciplines.

- Define, refine, and champion clear career pathways, competency grids, and promotion criteria studio-wide.

- Partner with executive leadership on studio-wide headcount planning, creative team structuring, succession planning, and recruiting strategies.

- Organise and lead mentorship programs, cross-project knowledge-sharing, and skill-acquisition initiatives.

- Partner with Technical Art and Technical Design leadership to help creative teams navigate major industry shifts.

- Cultivate a high-trust, diverse, and inclusive studio culture.

Qualifications:

- 10+ years of professional experience within game development, VFX, or creative tech industries.

- 5+ years of direct people leadership experience, including a proven track record of managing managers, lead artists/designers, or multi-disciplinary creative organisations.

- Mastery of People Operations, including 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.

- Strong experience with partner-hiring, identifying, recruiting, and onboarding senior creative talent.

- Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to align priorities, advocate for creative staff, and collaborate closely with HR, Recruiting, and Studio Leadership.

Benefits: Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical insurance, mental wellbeing support, pension plan, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- People Operations
- Career Development
- Leadership
- Change Management
- Talent Acquisition
- Strategic Communication

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