EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.
EA SPORTS Madden NFL is the best-selling sports property in U.S. Video game history. Madden NFL is an immersive, simulation-based, authentic NFL interactive experience, empowering fans to play out their NFL fantasy of winning the Super Bowl (and much more). Madden NFL has entertained fans over three decades with more than 130 million lifetime units sold.
Madden NFL is developed at EA's Tiburon Studio in Orlando, FL, and Madrid, Spain by a team that prides itself on innovation and creative collaboration. We are looking for talent with a passion for sports to create experiences that connect with millions of football fans around the world to grow the love of the sport.
The Role
EA SPORTS Madden NFL is looking for a Producer to build and lead a new team, delivering new play experiences for a wide range of American Football fans across console and PC . This is an opportunity to mold a team from the ground up delivering new live services, design new ways to play, allowing more fans to engage in their football fandom. .
As the Lead Producer on the team, you will partner with team leaders to help plan and guide the delivery of game experiences within this new live service. You will be involved in live services development and partner with operations, technical, art, content, and company partners.
Producers are the bridge between the design team and project managers, overseeing what experiences we build, why we build them, who we build them for and managing the delivery of them to our players.
Your Responsibilities
Guide the vision and execution for a new American Football IP from ideation, pitching through the first year of development. Align your team and stakeholder to the vision, present and sell, interpret player data and more.
Establish roadmaps for game experiences, aligning with the broader goals of EA SPORTS titles and EA.
Use insights to create features that deliver against the motivations of our target players. Lead brainstorming sessions to spur creativity across the team. Make decisions that lead to an MVP target.
Guide team culture as part of the leadership team to build a highly engaged, high performing team.
Work with Production, Art, Design, and Engineering lead to improve quality, communication and coordination.
Partner with Development Directors to manage the project schedule, milestones and sprint deliverables.
Partner with Art, UX, Engineering, QA, and Design teams to ensure the quality and timeliness of all deliverables are met.
Engage with other partner teams, including publishing, marketing, finance, legal, consumer insights, and game analytics.
Set and drive the quality bar for your overall experience, features and gameplay.
You will report to VP/Executive Producer for Madden NFL.
Required Qualifications
An experienced Producer or Product Manager with 8+ 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.
Create, pitch and sell a vision with appropriate production value. Define the long-term path for the experience from MVP to 5 years.
Deep experience prioritizing and managing scope of large game projects.
Experience with diverse gaming business models, including mobile and free-to-play.
Experience with pioneering, and encouraging others to consider different perspectives.
A master of influence, helping others understand and become passionate about their work.
An accomplished mediator and resolver of conflicts.
Familiar with scrum and Agile development concepts.
Experienced in using data and insights to inform planning.
About Electronic Arts
Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.
We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.
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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.