# 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

The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers an exciting experience for over 20 million players globally, delivering fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through innovative gameplay technology.

As a Senior Art & Design Career Manager, 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.

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 navigate major industry shifts, focusing on change management, skills transition, and ethical tool integration.

- 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 managing managers, lead artists/designers, or multi-disciplinary creative organisations.

- Mastery of People Operations, including career pathing, goal setting, mediation, and performance evaluation systems.

- Demonstrated history of guiding creative teams through organisational shifts, tool chain transformations, and workflow evolutions.

- Strong experience with talent acquisition strategy and partnership hiring.

- Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to align priorities and collaborate with HR, Recruiting, and Studio Leadership.

## Skills

### Required
- game development
- art production
- design production
- people leadership
- career development
- change management

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