Electronic Arts

Associate Producer - EA SPORTS™ FC

Vancouver, Canada

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

Building on an incredible 30 year foundation, we’re redefining football with EA SPORTS FC - a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences, bringing a global community of football fans closer to The World's Game. Together, we’re taking the largest football club in the world to new heights – and this is just the beginning! With more opportunity than ever to innovate and create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to fans everywhere, we invite you to join us as we pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS FC, and welcome everyone to the club! 

As a product owner you will partner with game design to inspire the creative vision and guide development across teams, ensuring a smooth delivery of new Ultimate Team experiences. At the centre of development, your mission is to set priorities based on analytic insights, player sentiment and target metrics to steer the direction of your experience, pushing creative boundaries and product quality. You will also be part of a team that maintains a Hybrid work schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with developers to ensure technical feasibility and understanding of creative goals.
• Craft a detailed direction for features you are responsible for and own messaging to team members and partners.
• Meet quality standards, aligning to the targets that have been defined.
• Use player information to influence the design and tuning for features they are working and contributing to.
• Use an understanding of the competitor landscape, market opportunities and player expectations to shape the product vision.
• Reporting to the Lead Product Owner.

Requirements:

• 2 to 3 years of experience in game production, knowledge of gaming genre and development fundamentals, business models or related roles.
• Understand competitive analysis' on gaps, innovations or trends in the gaming or related industries.
• Understand the types of functionality that makes games in the genre a success (i.e., mechanics, business model, visuals, gameplay and audio).
• Understand basic quality expectations concerning the video game and entertainment industry including review scoring and player sentiment.
• Intermediate knowledge of business models and monetization and how it applies to their product and genre.