Electronic Arts

We are seeking an experienced, highly creative, and detail-oriented Group Lead to oversee the craft and quality of gameplay capture across multiple high-profile sports franchises. This role serves as a key creative bridge between internal production, creative, editorial, and capture teams, ensuring that all captured gameplay aligns with project timelines, creative direction, and technical requirements.

The ideal candidate brings a strong background in gameplay capture, creative production workflows, and team leadership. This role will be responsible for mentoring and directing a team of capture artists, managing the planning and execution of capture sessions across various titles and assets.

This position requires a creative, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to anticipate challenges, optimize workflows, and drive projects from concept to completion while maintaining the highest quality standards.

MUST HAVE REQUIREMENTS:

• Extensive knowledge across all major sports and leagues and franchises (FC, NFL, CFB, NHL/UFC)

• Experienced content creator for video games, or equivalent production experience

• Ability to clearly interpret and describe the creative vision to the capture team to ensure capture will meet quality standards.

• Experienced mentor with the ability to lead a group of capture artists to hit creative goals.

• Must be extremely detailed oriented and organized.

• Must be able to keep multiple teams focused and motivated while driving multiple projects.

• Ability to give clear and concise creative notes to the capture teams across multiple projects.

DAILY / WEEKLY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Daily stand ups with the Capture teams and Capture Director to ensure work is on track.

• Quickly able to identify roadblocks and find creative solutions to avoid lost production days.

• Works with franchise creative and capture leads to build shot-lists based on creative vision.

• Coordinates capture schedules with production and creative partners to ensure deadlines can be met and quality can be reached.

• Oversees the work of multiple capture artists, providing mentorship and helpful tips on ways to capture more efficiently while raising the bar of what good looks like.

• Brings a passion to work that inspires the team to generate genre leading content.

• Quickly adapts to work across multiple assets, easily shifting from one project to another to ensure the capture team is working efficiently.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ability to interpret creative briefs and translate them into actionable capture tasks.

• Experience mentoring or leading creative teams.

• Familiarity with gameplay systems, build readiness indicators, and debugging tools.

• Proven experience in gameplay capture or game development pipelines.

• Strong understanding of production workflows, asset delivery, and cross-functional team collaboration.

• Proficient with tools such as Frame.io, G-Drive, and project management platforms (e.g., ShotGrid, Jira, Asana).

• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
  
  

NICE TO HAVE

• Background in video editing, game design, or cinematics production.

• Experience working across multiple game titles or franchises simultaneously.

• Understanding of motion capture, virtual production, or camera direction in gameplay capture.