Senior Lead Designer- UI/UX

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Lead Designer- UI/UX to join their EA SPORTS FC team. As a Senior Manager of Experience Design, you will lead an Experience Design team responsible for shaping cohesive, intuitive, and highly crafted player experiences across EA SPORTS FC.

You will report to the Experience Design Director and bring a strong creative point of view, deep experience designing interactive experiences, and the ability to inspire teams to think beyond traditional interface patterns.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Experience Design direction for a major product area within EA SPORTS FC
• Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary Experience Design team across locations
• Establish and maintain a high creative and quality bar across interaction design, UI, visual craft, motion, and the overall player experience
• Guide teams through complex concept and exploration phases
• Partner closely with Game Design, Production, Art, Engineering, Technical Design, User Research, Brand, and other Experience Design leaders
• Champion systems thinking and partner with Design System leadership
• Oversee team planning, estimation, resourcing, and delivery
• Champion emerging technologies, new interaction models, and design innovation

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience designing and delivering shipped, player-facing experiences for AAA/high-complexity games
• Expert understanding of interaction design, interface design, information architecture, visual hierarchy, typography, composition, motion, and accessibility
• A portfolio demonstrating high-quality interactive experiences, mastery of visual craft, exceptional systems thinking, and thoughtful end-to-end design solutions
• Capability to reframe UI/UX as a broader tool for player interaction
• Ability to design beyond traditional 2D menus and UI transitions
• Experience designing unified onboarding, tutorials, or contextual user-guidance systems
• Experience applying qualitative and quantitative insights, player motivations, and design strategy
• Ability to balance player needs, creative ambition, technical constraints, production realities, and business objectives
• Strong experience leading concept development and translating broad product and creative opportunities into clear design direction
• Strong creative judgment and the ability to articulate design strategy
• Proven ability to push teams to think and design spatially
• Deep understanding of design systems and experience driving consistency and cohesion across complex products