Electronic Arts

Our EA Experiences group is dedicated to ensuring great experiences for our growing communities centered around our world-renowned brands, including fan-favorites like Apex, Battlefield, EA SPORTS FC, Madden NFL and The Sims, just to name a few. We're a multi-functional group, with world-class expertise building fandoms, driving interactive storytelling, and positioning our franchises at the center of the broader entertainment ecosystem. We inspire, connect, and engage fans through culturally relevant content, intentionally architected journeys across channels, and meaningful fan care. Our goal is to provide valuable, easy experiences that fans love – in our games, around our games, and through innovative adjacent experiences to grow and enrich how fans experience EA as we shape the future of entertainment. We have a Senior Design Technologist role open in EA's Fan Journey Experience Design organization.

EA’s Fan Journey Experience Design organization helps shape the future of the player journey. Using data to drive impactful innovation and change, we help EA design and deliver better player experiences. We value people who bring new ideas and perspectives to make Fan Journey Design Practice a great place to be and be from. We celebrate inclusion. It’s just as important for us to create great experiences for our people as for our players. We’re looking for people who will show up excited to work and ready for fun.

The Senior Design Technologist reports into the Director, Process and Experience Design. You own design system processes, prototype new components and experiences, and work with designers and engineers to keep the design system running.

Responsibilities:

• Transfer and document patterns and components in Figma, Storybook and Frontify

• Manage day to day of design system operations, including backlog and release process

• Create and document the QA workflows on the design side to ensure pixel perfect and technically possible designs

• Build components and work with development team to integrate 

• Prototype live coded prototypes to test 

• Work with engineering teams to ensure components are implemented properly

• Standardize documentation guidelines and set up documentation and workflows

• Conduct and improve processes across engineering, design, content and publishing

• Lead design system governance in a cross-functional council

• Mentor junior design technologist 

Qualifications:

• Degree in visual design or technical field such as Computer Sciences, Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or related disciplines; or equivalent experience

• 5+ years experience as a technologist with design systems 

• Project management skills

• Experience with design and prototyping with Figma

• Experience programming with React

• Experience working cross-functionally with design, engineering, research, and data partners.

• Experience mentoring junior technologists, engineers or designers