EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connection of millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. At the heart of EA SPORTS is the FIFA franchise. EA SPORTS FIFA is the world’s #1 best-selling video game with over 200M engaged players across multiple platforms, including console, PC, and mobile.
Innovation, passion, and teamwork is at the heart of everything we do. With studios in Vancouver, Bucharest, and Cologne; we are looking for the brightest talent so we can continue to create experiences that connect with millions of hearts and minds the world over.
FIFA is the biggest console game in the world and its development is fueled by multiple passionate teams all working together to create amazing player experiences.
As part of the FIFA Live team, the role of Product Owner / Producer is to partner with teams across FIFA to deliver meaningful and impactful innovation and change to the Live product ensuring a quality experience for all players across all modes.
The ideal FIFA Live 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 Line Producer to establish roadmaps for game experiences and technological advancements, aligning with the broader goals of FIFA and 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.
Reports to the production leader of the team.
Your Qualifications
An experienced producer or product manager with 5+ 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 UI/UX and Game Design is a bonus, not a requirement
About EA We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers. We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game. Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
