Electronic Arts

Description & Requirements

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.

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connecting millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe, delivering fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime. This team works onsite Tuesday to Thursday every week.

The Challenge Ahead

As an Audio Technical Art Lead on UFC, you are all about building the best possible systems and workflows, enabling your team to deliver the highest quality audio for a globally recognized AAA title. Your focus is on ensuring your title’s data-driven runtime systems and department are operating at peak performance. You will assist the audio lead in realizing their vision for audio by planning, building and delegating the creation of quality workflows, sourcing and creating robust and future facing tech and data, and supporting artists throughout the dev cycle. You will collaborate with your director, fellow artists, engineers, other game teams, central technology teams and the community at large. You are a key component of your audio team and identify risks, share solutions, seek help and resources internally and externally to your teams and contribute with a positive, inclusive attitude.

Who you are:

As an Audio Technical Art Lead, you are--

• Passionate about creating unique and engaging audio experiences
• Technically inclined, having worked on personal and professional projects in the audio technical space, such as building video games, Max/Pure Data patches, VST plugins or other processing tools
• Interested in video games and player experience
• Someone who can drive innovation and motivate a team to build the right tech, considering production timelines and limitations, and accounting for requirements to ship the audio vision

Responsibilities:

• Plan the technical art roadmap for your title
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies
• Build audio runtime systems with visual programming and scripting languages
• Create, extend and manage simple and complex audio assets and structures
• Support artists by training, debugging and developing/improving workflows
• Optimize and debug runtime audio data to work and fit within modern console limitations
• Document data structures, workflows and best practices
• Communicate designs, best practices and risks to your team and the greater EA community

Qualifications:

• Significant leadership experience on a production team
• Significant experience in audio in video games and/or movie/television production
• Experience with both visual programming and text-based scripting/coding languages, with 5+ years’ experience in at least one language
• Significant experience debugging workflows, pipelines or runtime systems or assets
• Significant experience in content/data management
• Significant experience developing workflows
• A creative mindset with focus on how to improve product quality and team productivity

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. 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).

PAY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) * $96,400 - $133,900 CAD

In British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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