Electronic Arts

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.