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Senior Producer
3 years ago
At EA SPORTS we are committed to our vision to grow the love of sports! From authentic experiences to new explorations of fun for our players, we are always delivering games and services that provide competition for all, offer a variety of ways (both personal and social) to self-express and connect, and embrace the culture and lifestyle of sports and its experts. The Sr Producer, reporting to the Executive Producer is an essential member of the franchise leadership team that uses industry knowledge built by experience to create and shape a vision for a product, establish and influence support for ideas, meet high development expectations, and help grow the business… all while aiming, inspiring, and leading a team of accomplished video game professionals. We inspire the world to play, and we want you to be a part of it.
Responsibilities:
- You will guide the vision by defining what is intended to be created and built from idea cultivation to market delivery.
- Help guide multi-year planning of product and new business opportunities.
- Study everything in the space (games, business models, mechanics, technology) to discuss with peers, partners, team members and leadership
- Foster and grow partnerships across the organization to aid team in the delivery of products
- Plays games relevant to the business to converse with team in relation to vision and to use important findings to make decisions about the game and business.
- Represent the franchise, in franchise reviews and gate reviews within our game development framework (GDF), and express the vision and creative for media opportunities.
- Lead a diverse team to bring a quality, on time, and on budget product
- Make product decisions (inclusive of licensing, scope, and priorities) based on data and expertise.
- Exemplify leadership and behaviors to build an inclusive and diverse culture
- Provide people management maintaining team health and engagement throughout the development cycle.
- Coach producers and designers to transform ideas into feature designs that can be delivered.
- You will work with global analytics to define, collect, and utilize data to inform decisions and drive feature designs.
- Help manage daily project development and live services that engage players and inspires positive player sentiment throughout the lifecycle.
- Manage agreed-upon financial targets and budgets (e.g., dev costs, operating contribution, gross margin, contracted services, resource ramps)
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience as a Producer (at least 3 in a senior-level role) in a structured video game environment, with SPORTS game experience
- Expert level speaking skills
- Direct people management experience leading product teams
- Collaborate well with others, while respectfully leadingS discussions in area of focus
- Capability across product, organization, business, and people challenges
- Work with high-level executives on strategic and operational plans
- Passion for video games and interactive entertainment
- Interest in organizational and talent development
- Experience with change management programs
- In-depth knowledge of the industry, genre, business models, competition preferred
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