Associate Producer

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connecting millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players.

As an Associate Producer on the team, you will partner with team leaders to help plan and guide the delivery of game experiences within the live service. You will be involved in live services development and closely partner with operations, content, and internal stakeholders.

Producers are the bridge between the design team and project managers, overseeing what experiences we build, why we build them, and managing the delivery of them to our players.

The ideal Associate Producer will have a mix of strategic acumen, creative instinct and analytical ability that can translate data and ideas into actionable plans that benefit our players.

You will have experience with game production, quality verification, development or product management on a title with live services, and will be familiar with Football (Soccer) as a sport. You will have a good eye for product quality, user experience, and have strong organizational and collaborative skills. You believe great teams make great products.

If you enjoy working on a fast-paced team, developing experiences for millions of fans, while evaluating and critiquing existing ideas/processes and coming up with new ones, this is the role for you! A love for football and the FIFA series is a benefit, not a requirement.

Your Responsibilities:

• Works with the Feature Producer to establish roadmaps for game experiences and technological advancements, aligning with the broader goals of EA Sports.

• Partners with stakeholders to shepherd features through development, modelling best practices for the process for delivery, feature quality, and ensuring the feature vision is upheld.

• Evaluates features and prioritize the backlog to ensure work is aligned with product strategy and ROI.

• Actively involved in mitigating risk to successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.

• Works with Development Managers on feature delivery processes, driving for clarity, and proposing improvements to workflows.

• Works with team of developers and QV professionals to ensure product integrity.

• Identifies dependencies and works through requirements across various teams.

• Works closely with Development Managers and other project stakeholders to ensure that Patch and Content delivery is on time and meets high quality standards.

• Develops strong relationships with partner teams including publishing, marketing, finance, legal, consumer insights, and game analytics.

• Manages relationships with outsourced teams and vendors.

• Reports to the production leader of the team.

Your Qualifications

• An experienced producer or product manager with 2+ years of experience in game production, entertainment, or technology-focused roles.

• A love for working with a diverse group of people to accomplish something great as a team.

• Familiar with scrum and agile development concepts.

• Experience using data and insights to inform planning and decision making.

• Experience in the development of a staged product plan, including the creation of user stories and deliverables.

• Outstanding communication skills (group meetings and written documentation).

• Excellent organizational and time management skills.

• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Experience in Game Design is a bonus, not a requirement.