UI Technical Artist - EA Sports NHL

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Description & Requirements

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Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

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This is a 12-month contract with the possibility of longer term employment.</strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong>EA SPORTS</strong> is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment - connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br><strong>EA SPORTS NHL&nbsp;</strong>has revolutionized sports gaming for millions of players worldwide. We’ve pioneered award-winning creative technology and experiences to connect players to the speed, skill, and heart of the NHL. The EA SPORTS NHL<strong>&nbsp;</strong>franchise is founded on passion and new ideas. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the team is composed of diverse talent dedicated to creating on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play. If you're a creative pioneer with a passion for your craft, this will be more than a job. It’ll be what you love.&nbsp;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>The<strong>&nbsp;NHL Technical Art Team&nbsp;</strong>helps push visual boundaries and experiences for our players. We invest in future technologies, shared tooling, and production workflows. We combine creativity and imagination with technical expertise. We are a diverse group that encourages team members to bring their unique perspectives and expertise to work every day.&nbsp;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>Your Responsibilities:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a <strong>UI / Frontend Technical Artist</strong> you will play a critical role in advancing how our teams deliver world-class user interfaces. Reporting to the Technical Art Director, you will bridge the gap between creative vision and technical execution, supporting the delivery of frontend features at scale, ensuring our user interfaces remain fluid, responsive, beautiful, and performant across all our target platforms. Through close collaboration with UI engineers, layout designers, and art leads, you will own the health of the UI asset pipeline, develop modern workflows and custom artist-facing tools that guarantee consistency, reliability and speed for our UI team.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Candidates may come from Art, Design, Mathematics, Engineering, or Computer Science, but you must be comfortable operating at the intersection of creativity and technology. Most importantly, you bring a genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies like Generative AI and Machine Learning and their transformative capabilities.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your Qualifications:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At least 5+ years of games production experience</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a related field.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Effective at communicating with different audiences: artists, engineers, managers.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Familiar with DCC tools like&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Photoshop, Cinema4D, and Figma.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proficient in visual (e.g. Shader Graphs, Blueprints) or textual (Python, C#) scripting/programming (C++ is a bonus but is not required)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proficient with graphics debuggers/profilers (PIX, RenderDoc) and memory/runtime resource management</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A solutions-provider, especially as it pertains to testing and debugging technical issues.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experience with asset optimization challenges/techniques.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A willingness to jump into the unknown and solve new problems to resolve technical challenges and limitations.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proficiency with commercial game engines/editors like Unity/Unreal and their UI Systems is a plus.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experience in utilizing AI-assisted development tools (e.g. coding agents) to rapid prototype, accelerate execution and automate workflows, with the ability to critically review and validate AI-generated code.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; 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If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div><strong>PAY RANGES</strong></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="article__content__view__field "> <div class="article__content__view__field__value">

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$104,500 - $142,800 CAD

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General Information

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<strong>Locations</strong>: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  <br>

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Role ID

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215806

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Worker Type

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Temporary Employee

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Studio/Department

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EA Studios - SPORTS

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Work Model

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Hybrid

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