The Studio
EA FUEL sports is the newly formed mobile studio of the most widely recognized sports brands in interactive entertainment. FUEL games feature simulated sports titles with realistic graphics based on real-world sports leagues, players, events, and venues. Our franchises include FIFA Soccer, Madden NFL Football, NBA Live, NCAA Football, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR, and NFL Hockey
Role Overview
As a lead/sr. Product manager, you will drive the decisions that will lead the product/company to reach its financial and strategic goals. You will be responsible for establishing frameworks and data-driven processes of analyzing the problem space. You will work with a team of PMs, analysts, designers, and developers to be the voice of the player and create features that engage and expand our player base. This is a data/metrics focused role, driving our PM targets out of the games within our FUEL sports studio.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the full product/game lifecycle, from writing specifications, working across multi-disciplinary teams: design, UX, art, and engineering to launch features
- Manage and develop a team of product managers and analysts
- Own the product lifecycle of live operations and manage content launches
- Define short and long term KPI goals for the game team to establish success criteria for live operations and feature development
- Own economic modeling and adjust for inflation/deflation.
- Exhibit sound product judgment, ability to formulate product strategy, and present clear measurable objectives that will lead to achieving our business goals.
- Provide valuable input into business cases based on a hypothesis-driven approach while conducting in-depth data analysis that shows probable impacts against key product metrics.
- Manage and prioritize roadmap and effectively measure risk/reward payouts against the cost
- Implement a data-driven culture of hypothesis testing and validation
- Identify and analyze best practices for optimization, merchandising, and feature implementation
- Own A/B testing roadmap and be responsible for data readouts and incremental changes
- Drive user and competitive research to uncover user segments and identify player needs and product value propositions that resonate with discreet audience segments to maximize player retention and LTV
Required Skills
- 6+ years of experience in product management, mobile game experience preferred
- Proven track record of developing or improving features for a live service product
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative modeling skills with a focus on data-informed decision making. SQL querying abilities is a plus
- Outstanding written, oral, and organizational ability
- Ability to create wireframes and product specifications
- Strong project management skills and ability to present work to executive staff
- Experience with multivariate testing for in-product and out-product events
- Must have the passion to self-motivate, the guile to sell your ideas to other stakeholders, and the drive to execute those ideas cross-functionally
- Must love games and creating fun, compelling, and addictive user experiences
- Experience managing and/or deep understanding of Sports games or character collector games
- Ability to operate in an entrepreneurial environment, to thrive at an extremely fast pace, and to find creative ways to get things done
- BA/BS, quantitative or technical degree a plus (math, economics, engineering, or finance). MBA a plus.
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 maternity and paternity 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.