EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connection of millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. At the heart of EA SPORTS is the FIFA franchise. EA SPORTS FIFA is the world’s #1 best-selling video game with over 200M engaged players across multiple platforms, including console, PC, and mobile.
Innovation, passion, and team-work is at the heart of everything we do. With studios in Vancouver, Bucharest, and Cologne; we are looking for the brightest talent so we can continue to create experiences that connect with millions of hearts and minds the world over.
As a Senior Artist in the FIFA group, you will use your expertise in visual design systems, storytelling, and craft to shape the future of live service cosmetic content. You love sharing your ideas and approach each new opportunity with a beginner’s mind. You thrive in a collaborative environment, welcoming opportunities to continuously improve. You are proactive, organized and professional and expect to be supported by empathetic, effective leaders. You love to ask questions, solve visual problems, and are passionate about providing players with incredible experiences.
Working closely with Creative Leadership, you will bring your artistic curiosities to the table and apply your knowledge of 3D modeling, graphic design, and illustration to drive the development of large scale seasonal game assets. You will be responsible for assisting the Art Director with seasonal design direction, maintaining the art direction vision, aligning stakeholders, liaising with and providing feedback to internal teams and external vendors, and ensuring timely delivery of high quality assets.
We are looking for:
- An excellent eye for design and visual quality
- The ability to think creatively and connect with a Gen Z audience
- The ability to synthesize data and insights to inform your creative ideas
- The ability to work collaboratively and inclusively within a fast-paced environment
- Experience leading a team of artists.
- Experience providing art direction feedback to artists and vendors
- Experience working with concept design, Illustration and graphic design.
- Experience with 3D modeling.
- Experience with texture creation for 3D models.
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience creating briefs for in house and external use.
- Experience working with AAA projects preferred but not expected
Expected Duties:
- Create direction briefs for 2D & 3D environment assets.
- Create direction briefs for wardrobe assets.
- Obtain stakeholder alignment on briefs.
- Provide asset review, feedback and approvals.
- Manage relationships with partner teams and vendors.
- Manage the relationships with commissioned artists and vendors.
- Research and gather references for briefs and direction packages.
- Mentor junior artists
- Establish best practices and consult on process and workflow improvements
- Some design and/or illustration work
About EA
At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free video games and so much more! Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
