Electronic Arts

EA’s Fan Growth organization is responsible for elevating the experiences customers get from our entertainment and maximizing their fun. We’re obsessed with the experiences our fans have with EA. We value people who bring new ideas and perspectives to make Fan Growth a great place to be and be from. We celebrate inclusion. It’s just as important for us to create great experiences for our people as for our players. We’re looking for people who will show up excited to work and ready for fun. The Fan Growth organization is seeking a Portfolio Manager. 

Responsibilities: 

How does the Portfolio Manager help make great experiences for fans? 

They:

• Manage large-scale cross-functional and global projects 

  • Own all project documentation and ensure completion, socialization, and historical integrity

  • Make decisions that affect the project's outcome 

  • Evaluate options, assess and forward manage all risks, and make choices about the best course of action to deliver within timeline and quality standards

  • Proactively Ttrack progress including risk mitigation, deadlines, etc and manage stakeholder expectations 

  • Ensure clear communication and timely resolution of issues

  • Conduct project retrospectives, learnings and project closures

• Partner on the development and delivery of priorities

  • Thought partner with vertical portfolio leaders to facilitate the development of the strategy, alignment of priorities, and tracking and reporting of goals

  • Advocate for the portfolio in cross-vertical steering to help the team focus on achieving goals

  • Partner on the creation of business cases for investment

  • Manage dependencies and risks

• Identify opportunities and develop plans to optimize resource utilization

  • Work across the vertical leadership teams to connect and coordinate work 

  • Oversee and influence project management support across portfolio

  • Maintain line of sight to the work across the portfolio, to effectively guide the assigned project manager resources

  • Ensure consistency in project management practices across the portfolio including documentation and communication

• Oversee and facilitate the rhythm of the business for the portfolio products, projects, OKRs and initiatives

  • Help set the standard for business cases, reports and other deliverables

  • Generate reporting and portfolio communications

  • Coordinate the development of assets that cut across the portfolio

  • Partner on developing and maintaining a rhythm of the business for cyclical or recurring activities

  • Create and maintain all portfolio roadmaps 

  • Manage new project intake,  backlog and facilitate portfolio steering with leaders

Qualifications:

• Passionate about our culture - you want to make it easier for people to do their jobs

• Curious - you like to know everything that’s going on and you are skilled at working with others to learn more

• Committed  communicator – you communicate early, clearly, openly and personally from presentations with senior leaders to day-to-day conversations with product teams 

• Consistent – people know what they can expect from you, there is rhyme and reason to how you operate and others value your dependability

• Proactive – a self-directed and motivated person that’s able to personally jump in, roll up your sleeves, and take the lead without being asked 

• Efficient – highly resourceful, organized, and a process thinking that evaluates everything to implement ways of doing things better and faster

• Team player – a leader that encourages team collaboration, works well with peers, promotes enthusiasm, leverages powers of influence, and builds relationships

• Experienced project manager - you’ve led large cross-functional projects, familiar with project management methodologies and tools such as Google Suite, Jaas, Smartsheet and Airtable