Technical Interface Designer @ EA Sports FC

This role bridges the gap between artists and software engineers by combining artistic skills and experience with programming and scripting. It sits within the art team and works closely with artists, project managers, programmers, and other technical designers. The position focuses on creating, animating, optimising, and supporting user interfaces and effects for game front end and HUD, while facilitating collaboration between art and engineering.

• Recreate screens and components from mockups provided by the design team.
• Learn and drive art asset conversion from legacy to new formats, and learn and support animations and UI work with legacy technology, including Flash-based animations via ActionScript and timeline.
• Maintain best practices in code and art development.
• Create UI animations and effects using the proprietary game engine.
• Apply appropriate art optimisation techniques to art assets.
• Quickly identify and debug art- and animation-related issues.
• Design and create motion demos for the game front end and HUD, and integrate them in game.
• Collaborate with engineering and art, explaining both art team needs and technical constraints.
• Document tools and workflows on the internal wiki.
• Create high-fidelity rapid prototypes for UX evaluation.

• Technical skills and the ability to quickly learn new proprietary production tools and workflows.
• Adept at, or able to quickly learn, various object-oriented programming languages and scripts (e.g., JavaScript, C#).
• Familiar with scripting languages such as Python.
• Proficient with Adobe Photoshop and other graphics and animation applications.
• 1+ years of experience creating 3D motion graphics, or interfaces with game engines such as Unreal or Unity.
• Visual animation and programming skills.

• Understanding of user experience principles.
• Understanding of revision version control software, with knowledge of Perforce ideal.

EA SPORTS FC builds on an incredible 30-year foundation and is redefining football as a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences, bringing a global community of football fans closer to The World's Game.