Electronic Arts

Director, Product Management / Principal Product Manager

Location: Austin, TX
Team: Game Developer Experience
Reports to: Senior Director, Product Management

Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced, technically grounded, and strategically minded Director of Product Management (or Principal Product Manager) to drive product vision, execution, and impact across a portfolio of platform capabilities and tools. You will be responsible for defining and delivering products that enable developers to build, launch, and operate world-class games with greater efficiency, quality, and speed.

This is a critical leadership role that demands a blend of technical fluency, strategic thinking, and operational excellence. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, design, operations, and game teams, and partner closely with technical and executive leaders across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define a compelling vision and roadmap for the product(s) that aligns with organizational goals and customer needs.
  
  

• Product Execution: Translate vision into clear, actionable requirements, documentation, and user stories; oversee development and ensure timely delivery.
  
  

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, design, DevOps, QA, and game development teams to align on goals, define priorities, and deliver high-quality features.
  
  

• Data-Driven Decisions: Leverage data to inform roadmap decisions, measure feature success, identify performance bottlenecks, and validate user impact.
  
  

• Ecosystem Thinking: Build interoperable features within a broader platform, with an emphasis on cloud-native capabilities such as auto-scaling, self-healing, and redundancy.
  
  

• Customer Advocacy: Engage with internal users to understand pain points and ensure the product delivers tangible improvements to workflows and outcomes.
  
  

• Communication: Present product vision and roadmap to executive and senior technical audiences; build alignment across multiple disciplines and stakeholders.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, including leadership roles across multiple product lines.
  
  

• Strong technical background through education or hands-on work experience.
  
  

• Proven success managing complex roadmaps across ecosystems or platforms.
  
  

• Ability to assess technical complexity and design staged rollout strategies for feature validation and risk mitigation.
  
  

• Experience with Agile methodologies and writing clear, detailed user stories and feature specs.
  
  

• Skilled at creating and interpreting dashboards to track KPIs, performance, adoption, and feature impact.
  
  

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive presentations and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
  
  

• Experience building features that leverage modern cloud architectures and DevOps/LiveOps practices.
  
  

Nice to Have

• Experience hiring, mentoring, and career-managing product managers.
  
  

• Familiarity with game development processes, pipelines, and industry trends.
  
  

• Background in fast-paced, startup environments with lean, cross-functional teams.
  
  

• Track record of delivering innovative features, especially in AI/ML, with measurable impact.
  
  

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and workflow optimization.
  
  

• Financial literacy, including managing budgets and creating business cases for features and platform investments.
  
  

• Passion for building products that improve developer productivity and enable creative excellence.
  
  

Why Join Us

• Work at the intersection of creativity and technology, enabling the future of game creation.
  
  

• Help shape foundational tools used by hundreds of developers across global studios.
  
  

• Be part of a culture that values innovation, inclusion, and continuous learning.