Electronic Arts

EA SPORTS NHL has revolutionized sports gaming for millions of players worldwide. We've pioneered award-winning creative technology and experiences to connect players to the speed, skill, and heart of the NHL.

The EA SPORTS NHL franchise is founded on passion and new ideas. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the team is composed of diverse talent dedicated to creating on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play. If you're a creative pioneer with a passion for your craft, this will be more than a job. It'll be what you love.

You will focus on the NHL's development team from a production perspective, managing the active development, including roadmaps, scoping, dependencies, and release of content updates. You will take the lead as an internal developer's primary contact, working with developers on the creation of project and milestone schedules, and post-launch content update planning and overall development plans. You will report directly to the NHL Lead Producer and will partner with other Producers, Game Designers, Artists, and partner team members to further our product strategy.

Your Responsibilities

• Partner with our development teams to ensure priorities can be completed and roadmaps are aligned

• Identify and lead game plans to ensure our team and developers have goals, frameworks, and priorities needed to make the features you're responsible for. Ensuring a successful launch, on time and at quality.

• Partner with business development, product management and creative teams to ensure we are making the right decisions for our developers and players, ensuring we are on track to achieve title goals.

• Feedback on, improve, and take an active part in implementing product roadmap for the portfolio including pipelines and processes

• Unblock critical issues/risks/blockers as they come up in different disciplines

• Create & improve on process/collaboration methods over time

Help resolve unique, complex product issues through ingenuity, creativity, and any other means necessary

Work cross-functionally to create a healthy team culture based on communication, transparency, and shared context

Your Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in game production and have proven experience shipping AAA games

• 5+ years of people management and leadership experience driving outcomes

• Experience shipping successful games in a Producer role or higher.

• Formal experience in production and project management.

• Expertise using production tools and multimedia software applications (Jira, Trello, Confluence, MS Project, etc.).

• Experience leading complex projects with delivery of quality, schedule and in balancing scope, capacity, budget, risk, and time

• Experience with video games, innovations in software, and how they enrich the player experience