Associate Creative & Design Director, Electronic Arts
EA Sports FC
CA$126-176.3k
Video game company
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Video game company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$126-176.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inspire the world to play, by creating games and experiences for the global player community that are a reflection of our diverse world.
Role
Who you are
- This is a collaborative team and industry, so it’s important to be a quick learner who isn’t afraid to ask questions, while focusing on detailed output
- 6+ years of experience in a creative role -- creative agency experience preferable, with a focus on concept development, asset creation, and brand design
- In-depth understanding of the media landscape including both emerging digital spaces and traditional channels
- Storytelling and script writing skills are essential
- Experience working on brand and product campaigns from vision to completion. In-house or agency
- Understanding the cultural and creative landscape of football or in-depth FC video game knowledge are a huge plus
- Experience in a matrixed work environment is beneficial
What the job involves
- Building on one of the biggest rebrands in entertainment history, EA SPORTS FC is looking for an Associate Creative & Design Director to elevate the brand across the portfolio of FC products in the market and help shape new ones
- Our games are loved and played by millions of people around the world, and we want every experience they have with our brand to feel special, premium and authentic to football
- This is your opportunity to join the team at EA SPORTS FC and deliver on that ambition
- This is a collaborative team and industry, so it’s important to be a quick learner who isn’t afraid to ask questions, while focusing on detailed output
- In this dream role you’ll work across several creative campaigns & design deliverables for EA SPORTS FC
- Develop and drive end-to-end creative concepts and executions, across the FC Platform ecosystem
- Support in development of the core creative design systems for multiple FC products
- Partner with our teams to uphold our visual look & feel and across various brand and product level campaigns under the guidance of the Group Creative Director & Platform Marketing Director
- Partner with internal strategy and marketing team members to develop treatments and creative responses that inspire our best ideas and execution
- Collaborate with our production teams to craft designs and executions
- Develop core creative platform and creative responses at a product level alongside internal Strategy, Brand and Development teams that inspire our best ideas and execution
- Conceptualize, write, and develop ideas based on franchise Strategy and Brand positioning for cross-channel campaign assets, across multiple FC products
- Articulate and present creative concepts to internal stakeholders, while strengthening the work through incorporating feedback
- Collaborate with internal and external production, editorial and development teams to craft stories and content, with a focus on video
- Partner with our Brand and cross functional teams to uphold campaign narrative, tone and visual look and feel under the guidance of creative and senior leadership
- Share and present creative work with creative team leadership at regular intervals throughout campaign
- Lead external agency relationships throughout the briefing, creation, feedback, & execution process
- This role, in partnership with external agencies and internal designers, will be accountable for concepting and executing the go-to-market design systems & brand level creative for EA SPORTS FC Platforms
- You will drive excellence in design & creative from start to finish, with an expectation to manage and uphold a high-quality bar for all content produced that uses our franchise design systems
- You will report directly to the FC Platform Marketing Director, and work in support of and in collaboration with the Group Creative Director of EA SPORTS FC
Our take
EA is a leading global game company, responsible for developing and publishing some of the biggest games of the last 20 years. Its publishing successes include giants like The Sims, Battlefield, and Mass Effect, while EA's titles, such as Fifa, Madden, and NBA Live, have also seen market-leading success.
A series of acquisitions in 2021 marked EA's push into mobile gaming, which has become the driving force behind the rapid growth of the global video gaming market, and has remained a clear focus for the company, despite the cancellation of its popular Apex Legends Mobile game. The company also expressed interest in NFTs and "play-to-earn" games, going so far as to label them "the future of the industry", but has since taken steps to distance itself from the idea, as it proved unpopular with gamers.
This combined model of publishing and development has allowed EA to put its name to a huge range of products, making the brand iconic in the gaming world. It has formed major partnerships with the likes of Disney, giving it full control of creating in-demand games, such as within the Star Wars franchise. In the upcoming years, the company plans to focus on games-as-a-service, as it embraces the evolution of the gaming world.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 1982
$2m
SERIES A
May 1982
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $2.2m
Company values
- Creativity: Striving to bring imagination, orginal ideals, and excitement to everything we do
- Pioneering: Acting with the curiosity and courage that it takes to experiment, innovate, and lead
- Passion: We are at our best when we pursue what we love, and have fun doing it
- Determination: Bringing focus, drive, and conviction to our actions. Thriving on the journey, and being mortivated to achieve excellence
- Learning: Listening, having humility, being open to new ways of thinking, and looking with a lens of inclusion. Challenging ourselves to grow and change as a company
- Teamwork: Committed to each other, and to the accountability and integrity tit takes to be a successful diverse team
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Andrew Wilson
(CEO, not founder)Joined EA as Vice President and Executive Producer in 2000, and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Electronic Arts
- Our intentional efforts to embed principles of diversity, equity and inclusion in our people practices have generated results across our teams.
- We have made progress in company-wide representation of women and underrepresented minorities.
- We have achieved a 46 percentage point increase in underrepresented talent in executive roles (VP+) over the last two fiscal years.
- We have hired underrepresented talent above our representation rates for the fourth consecutive year.
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