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Senior Tech Program Manager- Virtual Economy

We Are EA

And we make games - How cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is not easy. That's why we employ the most creative and passionate people in the industry.

Save the planet from Alien Invaders. Score the winning touchdown.

Yup - It's the coolest job on the planet!

The Challenge Ahead:

Is to build our new cross-game, cross-platform digital economy platform. This large-scale, always-on collection of RESTful Java-based services will power the virtual-economies of EA’s network of games experienced by tens of millions of monthly active users. You'll build platform capabilities handling several hundred-thousand requests per second, and driving the player engagement of many of the industries most popular titles. You can build server-side systems that bring new functionality within the larger Digital Platform, and work on regular improvements to the systems to keep them at top-notch performance.

What a Program Manager does within EA's Digital Platform team:

As a Program Manager, your primary responsibility will be to lead complex, diverse, many-sided projects across geographies. Most of your time will be spent on delivering complex and scalable software solutions with huge strategic impact to EADP’s Marketplace Platform. You'll provide program leadership, anticipate bottlenecks, mitigate project risks, make trade-offs, and balance the needs versus technical constraints. You will provide technical leadership on how game economy services will be built and operated within EADP and, by Game Studios. You will translate technical operational requirements across security, performance, and costs – and process requirements to improve the development to production experience into technical specifications and influence design and architectural decisions.

You will work with different teams across EA Digital Platform & Game Studios to create new solutions that help teams to achieve our goals and product deliverables in an easy, efficient and reliable operating model. You will have a software development background and project management background.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Be the technical interface between product manager and the software development teams. Understand the product and knows the right questions and whom to ask.
• Run in front of the software development team, helping establish user stories, and research appropriate technical solutions
• Function as Iteration Manager (Agile) and direct daily activities for project team
• Oversee the daily progress of project(s) and release plans with regard to time, budget, scope, and quality
• Develop a complete project schedule, make it always visible to management and important partners, and guide it through to completion
• Engage with other teams in the company, promoting the team and your project, building relationships and helping identify existing components and technologies that can be leveraged to accomplish our goals

The Next Great EADP PM also needs to have:

• Program Management experience in a distributed team environment
• Understand the software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies
• Experience working with ALM solutions (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)
• Remove roadblocks and accomplishes goals
• A solid foundation in computer science, 1+ years prior experience as a software developer preferred
• BS, MS in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent)
• Cloud provider automation and operations experience preferred
• Experience delivering live services a plus
• Experience with game development a plus
• Experience with in-game economy systems and design an even stronger plus

What's In It For YOU? Glad You Asked!

We are proud of the great perks we offer like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, pension with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes outstanding people to make excellent games, we offer great compensation packages and a culture is powered by creativity and individuality. Health, Dental, Financial offered (ESPP and RRSP matching); Bonus and relocation assistance also offered.

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