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Anti-Cheat Technical Program Manager

Anti-Cheat Technical Program Manager

EA Security

The EA Security team protects EA by reducing our exposure to security risks by raising awareness and providing a measured, proportionate set of security and risk management controls, services and solutions. This department also ensures that EA is meeting required security standards as defined by a variety of different regulatory bodies.

The Secure Product Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response Team ensures that all EA Games are developed with the security of our players and their personal information as a priority. We partner with platform and game development teams to ensure that security issues are identified and resolved throughout the application and service lifecycle.

You will be a member of the Secure Product Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response team, reporting to the Senior Security Manager. You will work with game and platform development teams to support a centralized anti-cheat program across the company. We are looking for someone who is part TPM, part Product Manager, and part security / anti-cheat specialist.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Security/Anti-Cheat TPM, you will be a part of a global security team and will work with game and central tech development teams to:

• Build durable and accountable relationships
• Understand the gameplay integrity issues facing EA game titles and existing controls
• Maintain a comprehensive gameplay integrity roadmap
• Determine anti-cheat control and tech integration requirements
• Translate business use cases into functional and technical specifications
• Drive integration of security and anti-cheat tooling with game studios
• Improve EA account resiliency to identity-based attacks and facilitate features like cross-play
• Develop security and anti-cheat operations processes
• Develop program / product metrics
• Provide transparency to senior leadership, game studio, and platform teams through regular reporting
• Develop and integrate processes and tooling to support Security Development Lifecycle efforts
• Oversee partner and security engineering expectations and deliverables
• Resolve potential resourcing, technology, and process gaps related to security and anti-cheat engineering efforts
• Work with security and anti-cheat engineering resources to determine proper approach and priority to resolving risks
• Understand partner team development and engineering capabilities to influence secure development
• Build trust relationships with external security researchers who have reported security vulnerabilities and cheats

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or relevant professional experience
• Solid security engineering and security program experience
• Passion for online gaming and interest in the cheating problem space
• Experience defining and using SDL practices and methodologies
• Program management and implementation experience, working with multiple partners globally
• Presentation, conflict resolution, and customer service skills
• Experience briefing executive leadership on security risks and identifying a path to resolution
• Experience managing large security or anti-cheat programs (8+ years)
• Understanding of application security concepts
• Experience working with or familiarity with the external security researching community, game cheat community, or identifying and using cheats in games
• Experience planning and delivering cost-effective results
• Project leadership, able to delegate, and determine priority of tasks
• Balance the pressures of a busy project environment with the need for a fun, productive group and environment