Production Director (American Football) - #446305

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 leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

EA's Tiburon Studio is a team that prides itself on innovation and creative collaboration. We are looking for talent with a passion for sports to create experiences that connect with millions of football fans around the world to grow the love of the sport.

The Role

EA’s Tiburon Studio is looking for a Production Director to continue to grow and lead a new team, delivering new play experiences for a wide range of American Football fans across console and PC. This is an opportunity to mold a team from the ground up delivering new live services, design new ways to play, allowing more fans to engage in their football fandom.

As a Production Director on the team, you will partner with team leaders to help plan and guide the delivery of game experiences within this new live service. You will be involved in live services development and partner with operations, technical, art, content, and company partners.

Production Directors are the bridge between the design team and project managers, overseeing what experiences we build, why we build them, who we build them for and managing the delivery of them to our players.

Your Responsibilities

• Guide vision and execution from ideation to execution. Align your team and stakeholders to the vision, present and sell, interpret player data and more. Be the ambassador for the player.
• Establish roadmaps for game experiences, aligning with the broader goals of EA SPORTS titles and EA.
• Use insights to create features that deliver against the motivations of our target players. Lead brainstorming sessions to spur creativity across the team. Make decisions that lead to excite and delight our audience.
• Carry forward a culture of excellence as part of the senior leadership team to build a highly engaged, efficient, and high performing team.
• Work with Production, Art, Design, UX, Operations, Engineering, and QA leads to improve quality, communication, and coordination.
• Partner with Development Directors to manage the project schedule, milestones, and sprint deliverables.
• Engage with other partner teams, including publishing, marketing, finance, legal, consumer insights, and game analytics.
• Set and drive the quality bar for your overall experience, features and gameplay.
• You will report to the Sr. Production Director for this product.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• An experienced Producer or Product Manager with 8+ years of experience in game production, entertainment, or technology-focused roles.
• A love for working with a diverse group of people to accomplish something great as a team.
• A passion for videogames.
• Create, pitch and sell a vision with appropriate production value. Define the long-term path for the experience from MVP to 5+ years.
• Deep experience prioritizing and managing scope of large game projects.
• Experience with diverse gaming business models, including mobile and free-to-play.
• Experience with pioneering and encouraging others to consider different perspectives.
• A master of influence, helping others understand and become passionate about their work.
• An accomplished mediator and resolver of conflicts.
• Familiar with scrum and Agile development concepts.
• Experienced in using data and insights to inform planning.
  
  

Please note: this position is an on-site (hybrid) position based in Victoria, British Columbia only. On-site work is required 3x per week.

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) * $151,800 - $208,900 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.