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Marcom Strategy needs a Milestone Planner to drive critical deliverable milestones – what, when, who - and coordinate resources ensuring the timely development of marketing campaigns for titles across our full portfolio. You will report into the Production arm of the Marcom Strategy team and works closely with Heads of Creative and Heads of Strategy.
You are a highly organized individual who has worked as a producer or project manager in an entertainment, film/digital production or advertising agency environment. You are used to a high level of multi-tasking and a fast-moving environment. You will be solution oriented, a strong communicator and collaborator, and have great diplomacy skills. The Milestone Planner is not responsible for final delivery of assets, rather you will manage the upfront thinking surrounding campaign strategy, creative ideation (the big idea) and delivery of briefs to our production partners. Asset development will be handled by our production and activation teams.
Responsibilities
- Creates and maintains schedule from initial briefing through to production hand-off
- Ensures key milestones are met and projects stay on track
- Provides regular status updates to leadership and key partners through review sessions and email communications
- Works closely with creative teams to ensure projects milestones are met
- Forecasts potential bottlenecks to ensure resource allocation is accurate and manageable
- Resource management across Marcom Strategy and Creative teams
- Set our Strategists, Creative Directors and Producers up for success
Skills
- 5+ years as a project manager or producer at a Creative Ad Agency, Entertainment Company or Post-Production facility.
- Self-driven leader with the ability to take projects from inception to execution
- Experience developing, creating and refining project management processes
- Experience supporting global teams across multiple time zones
- Excellent understanding of project management tools
- Strong communication, problem-solving and follow-through skills
- Detail-oriented with ability to set priorities within multiple tasks/projects.
About EA
At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free video games and so much more! 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.
