10 Opportunities to Work on FIFA Successor EA Sports FC
FIFA is dead. Long live EA Sports FC.
At least, that’s what Electronic Arts hopes we’ll all say when the highly anticipated follow-up to FIFA 23 is released sometime this fall.
In late 2021, it emerged that EA had failed to reach a new licensing body with FIFA, the world soccer governing body, which had reportedly asked for $1 billion in naming rights.
And so a 30-year business relationship ended and “EA Sports FC” was born.
EA is still hiring pretty aggressively across many of its departments, even though the new title is seemingly only a few months away from release,
Here, we round up the 10 best opportunities to work on the most successful video game sports franchise in the world.
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1. Marketing Associate, FC Brand Activation - Markets (LATAM)
Location: Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽
Level: Entry (0–1 year experience)
Salary: Competitive
Tag(s): Marketing
The only internship available to work on EA Sports FC is this one, which is for a budding marketing professional who could legally work in Mexico City. Help develop and activate marketing campaigns, bringing your enthusiasm and creativity to the table. Both English and Spanish are required here.
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2. Associate Technical Artist - EA Sports FC 3D Art
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada 🇨🇦
Level: Junior (1–2 years experience)
Salary: Competitive
Tag(s): Technical Art, 3D
EA Sports FC’s technical art team pushes the visual boundaries and experiences of its players. This role is for someone to be the bridge between the artists and engineers working on EA’s brand-new soccer property. A degree is desired, not required, but some experience is needed to apply.
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3. Game Product Manager - EA SPORTS™ FC
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada 🇨🇦 or Toronto, ON, Canada 🇨🇦
Level: Intermediate (2–5 years experience)
Salary: Competitive
Tag(s): Product Management
Even though “FIFA” is no longer in the title, EA is still using “FUT” as an abbreviation for its hugely popular–and profitable–Ultimate Team game mode. This role interfaces directly with other producers, game designers, artists, and external stakeholders to continue to grow FUT.
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4. Assistant Producer - EA SPORTS™ FC
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada 🇨🇦 or Remote (Canada) 🇨🇦
Level: Intermediate (2–5 years experience)
Salary: Competitive
Tag(s): Game Production
If you’re able to work in Canada and have an Associate’s Degree or two years in game development, EA would love to hear from you for this role! A love for soccer would also be a huge help, too, as this is a role that’s heavily focused on player, club, and competition data.
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5. Game Designer - EA Sports FC Ultimate Team
Location: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Level: Intermediate (2–5 years experience)
Salary: Competitive
Tag(s): Game Design
This wide-ranging game design role is based in Romania’s capital city and is for someone who has experience designing and shipping features on a live-service game. Console or mobile experience is required, and there will be some playtesting to be done in this position, too.
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6. EA SPORTS FC Football Partnerships Manager - Eastern Europe
Location: Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱
Level: Intermediate (2–5 years experience)
Salary: Competitive
Tag(s): Business Development
This is a newly formed position that aims to expand the EA Sports FC community in Poland and other Eastern European countries. It looks like a seriously exciting opportunity for someone with sports partnership experience and excellent written/verbal Polish/English skills.
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7. Project Manager - EA Sports FC
Location: Guildford, UK 🇬🇧
Level: Intermediate (2–5 years experience)
Salary: Competitive
Tag(s): Project Management
Heading over to the UK now, this position is for someone with at least three years of project management experience. Experience in Scrum/Agile development is necessary, as is proficiency in Jaas/Jira and Excel/Sheets.
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8. Software Engineer, Career Mode - EA Sports FC
Location: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴 or Remote (Romania) 🇷🇴
Level: Intermediate (2–5 years experience)
Salary: Competitive
Tag(s): Game Development
We weren’t even certain that EA had any engineers left working on career mode, but apparently, they do! Can you help to resurrect our favorite offline game mode? If you’ve got three years of experience in C++ software development, you could be the hero we’ve been seeking for years.
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9. Senior Manager, FC Brand Management
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada 🇨🇦 or Remote (Canada) 🇨🇦
Level: Senior (5+ years experience)
Salary: Competitive
Tag(s): Marketing
This is a big, big opportunity for someone with a big, big track record in product marketing or brand management. Partner with the studio, marketing, and commercial teams to identify goals and priorities for the entire EA Sports FC brand.
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10. Senior Live Producer - EA SPORTS™ FC
Location: Remote (USA) 🇺🇸 or Remote (Canada) 🇨🇦
Level: Senior (5+ years experience)
Salary: Competitive
Tag(s): Game Production
Last, but certainly not least, this vacancy is for the second-in-command of the title’s live service. Able to be worked remotely from within either the USA or Canada, the role pays up to $252,600 (USD) per year. Only highly seasoned game producers or gaming product managers are eligible for this.
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That’s a wrap! We really hope there was something here for you, but if not then there are 13 more vacancies open at EA to work on EA Sports FC. You can see all of them by clicking here.
