This job might no longer be available.
Senior Technical Program Manager
1 year ago
Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in interactive entertainment. We create games, content and online services across platforms. We have a broad portfolio of brands that span the most popular genres.
We exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together accomplished people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow our employees to do the most important work of their careers.
Join us in driving the next revolution in games.
Responsibilities
As a Sr Program Manager, you will report to the Director of Program Management. You will work with Senior Leaders, across the across the CTO organization and EA, to:
- Help form new programs by actively participating in the process of investigating and problem solving for game development needs.
- Lead technically focused programs, within the strategic portfolio, ensuring expected, measurable outcomes are achieved.
- Develop relationships with partners, project managers and other leaders, to collaboratively ensure defined goals are achieved or exceeded.
- Communicate program goals, status, risks, and plans to individuals of varying technical backgrounds, at all business levels.
- Ensure metrics are defined and tracked with feedback mechanisms to evaluate the effectiveness of the program execution and outcomes.
- Perform change management that smooths adoption and minimizes resistance to optimizing strategic outcomes.
- Leverage retrospectives and other methods to evolve processes and future execution of strategic programs.
Required Skills
- You are a resourceful, measurements-focused, program management expert with demonstrated ability to influence technical partners and senior leaders.
- Experience establishing program structure, driving outcomes, and partnering with technical teams to implement high-level improvement strategies based on a data-driven approach.
- Proficiency in change management, process improvement, business analytics and project management.
- A workstyle that allows obstacles to be removed autonomously, with minimal management oversight.
- 5+ years Program Management experience in a distributed, software development team environment.
Create Your Profile — Game companies can contact you with their relevant job openings.