# Animation Director

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Orlando, Florida
**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 is seeking an experienced Animation Director to lead the animation team for their sports video games.

The Animation Director will be responsible for setting the animation vision, defining the style and quality bar, and ensuring seamless integration of animation into player experiences.

Responsibilities:

- Define and deliver the vision and quality bar for all motion in the game

- Drive animation quality while balancing performance, continuity, technical, scheduling, and budgetary requirements

- Hire, mentor, guide, and manage the work of the animation team

- Provide regular feedback and direction to the animation team

- Drive the evolution of the animation pipeline and establish efficient animation workflows and procedures

The Animation Director will collaborate with Creative and Art leadership, Design and Engineering, technical animators, character riggers, modelers, graphics engineers, and physics engineers.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years as a senior animation contributor or leader, including experience directing animation on high-quality AAA games

- Strong leadership, people-management, communication, and mentoring skills

- Ability to inspire and lead a team to deliver high-quality work on time and within budget

- Skill in guiding a team to balance creative ambition with technical and production requirements

- Experience and confidence directing actors and athletes for motion capture

- Strong knowledge of current animation practices, technologies, and industry trends

- Experience directing or working with real-time animation systems

Beneficial Qualifications:

- Experience evaluating and applying emerging animation technologies

- A passion for sports and strong knowledge of American football

- Technical fluency with scripting, tools, or engine workflows

Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health services, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- animation
- leadership
- team management
- communication
- mentoring
- technical animation
- real-time animation systems

### Nice to have
- emerging animation technologies
- sports knowledge
- American football
- scripting
- engine workflows

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