Senior Art & Design Career Manager — EA SPORTS™ UFC

• Organizational Leadership & Coaching: Provide direct line management, coaching, and career development for Artists and Designers across multiple disciplines. Mentor, develop, and prepare future creative leads and art/design managers.
• Scale Career Frameworks: Define, refine, and champion clear career pathways, competency grids, and promotion criteria studio-wide, ensuring transparency and equity across all creative levels.
• Strategic Workforce Planning: Partner with executive leadership on studio-wide headcount planning, creative team structuring, succession planning, and recruiting strategies to build a world-class creative culture.
• Discipline Capability & Knowledge Sharing: Organize and lead mentorship programs, cross-project knowledge-sharing, and skill-acquisition initiatives to continuously elevate our studio’s overall creative capabilities.
• Navigate Workflow & Tool Transformations: Partner with Technical Art and Technical Design leadership to help our creative teams navigate major industry shifts—including the adoption of AI-assisted design workflows—focusing on change management, skills transition, and ethical, high-impact tool integration.
• Promote Psychological Safety & Health: Cultivate a high-trust, diverse, and inclusive studio culture. Establish proactive initiatives, processes, and metrics to monitor department morale, resolve high-level personnel conflicts, and prevent creative burnout.

• 10+ years of professional experience within game development, VFX, or creative tech industries, with a deep understanding of art/design production pipelines.
• 5+ years of direct people leadership experience, including a proven track record of managing managers, lead artists/designers, or multi-disciplinary creative organizations of 10 to 20+ creatives.
• Mastery of People Operations: Expert-level experience with career pathing, goal setting, mediation, performance evaluation systems, and executive coaching.
• Change Management Expertise: Demonstrated history of guiding creative teams through organizational shifts, tool chain transformations, and workflow evolutions (such as integrating AI-assisted tools) with empathy and clear communication.
• Talent Acquisition Strategy: Strong experience partner-hiring; you understand how to identify, recruit, and onboard senior creative talent based on long-term studio needs.
• High EQ & Strategic Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to align priorities, advocate for creative staff, and collaborate closely with HR, Recruiting, and Studio Leadership.

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