Electronic Arts

The EA Experiences Business Operations function is part of the Office of the CXO and has been established to strengthen department operations and planning. We lead the strategic activities that drive focus for Experiences goals & important projects and unlock the power of cross-team collaboration. These deliver range for XO through expertise in business planning, people & culture enablement, strategic workforce planning, employee communications, billing and operations to increase the application of these bodies of work across the organization.

As the Project Manager for EA Experiences, you will partner with a group of partners to organize, plan, coordinate and oversee operations on Business Operations projects end-to-end. You will guide timeline development, ensure progress, set up and facilitate project forums. To be successful in this role, you are to plan and implement complex programs and workstreams, identify gaps and solve blockers and lead clear and partner engagement along the way.

You'll get to work with a range of experienced, passionate and diverse people across the organization and report to the Director, Operations, EA Experiences.

This role is hiring for Hybrid work in our Vancouver and Austin offices.

Responsibilities:

• Manage large-scale and global projects, including vendor teams
• Develop project plans and track plan progress, including risk mitigation
• Set and manage partner expectations throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring resolution of issues
• Mentor team members as part of being a center of excellence for project management
• Communicate project status reports to project teams, program owners and leadership staff
• Conduct project retrospectives, insights and project closures
• Work with Business Operations program owners to manage work within the product line
• Establish and apply best processes.

A successful Project Manager has applied knowledge of the following and enjoys flexibility to apply them:

• Project life cycles
• Project Management standards
• Use data to build a business case
• Project prioritization and backlog management
• Practice Consultation
• Different approaches to project prioritization
• Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Risk and dependency tracking and mitigation
• PPM tools and their implementation in our environment

Capabilities:

• Consolidate data into recommendations
• Present to Business Operations Leadership and Extended Leadership team
• Scope and propose the work needed for new engagements
• Offer recommendations for process improvements
• Be flexible and adaptable to changing business models and organizational structures
• Work across multiple global time zones

Experience

• Managed multiple large-scale concurrent projects
• Fluency in business tools such as: Google Suite, Jaas, and Airtable

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
  • $75,900 - $105,600 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.