Program Manager

Requisition Number: 153081

Position Title: Sr DD

External Description:

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.  

EA Studios Content is a highly engaged content creation team within EA Worldwide Studios. We are creatively driven and focused on high end production across multiple genres, delivering all aspects of asset creation including character and world building, animation, rigging, audio and scanning. Working with our game team partners around the world, we share a real passion for creating amazing experiences and industry leading content. We are adventurous and creative. We are courageous, and we take chances. We seek pioneers who cut new paths and conquer challenges with fierce determination.  

We look for the best in everyone.  

 

Position Overview: 

The Program Manager is a lead position for a large production systems initiative within EA Studios Content. You will partner with the Product Owner and Technical Lead to lead the effort to streamline, optimize, track and generally improve the ways data is organized, built and iterated across the different departments involved in making content for our AAA games. You will improve our efficiency with a focus on common, scalable solutions that work across all groups and titles.  

Your job will be to run this program of work, working with the other key roles to define the vision and roadmap for the initiative, as well as building relationships with key partners. You will be responsible for retaining oversight of the purpose and status of all the projects within the program to ensure program goals are consistently being met. You will be handling relationships with, and between, the different EA groups involved and impacted by the program, and you’ll be responsible for guiding those groups, and the EA Studios Content team, through the changes associated with the program of work. Ultimately, you’ll be part of a team that are implementing solutions that will have an impact at the highest level within the content organization.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Partner with Product Owner and Technical Lead to drive the initiative’s vision and roadmap.  
• Participate in the development of implementation strategies and plans for the program of work.  
• Proactively engage sponsors, partners and technical delivery leadership to ensure goals are clear, commitments remain stable, dependencies managed, risks mitigated, and issues resolved.  
• Clearly define trade-offs and drive project objectives through organizational constraints.  
• Proactively communicate to convey progress, influence needed decisions, and convey concepts across teams and stakeholders.  
• Contribute to the preparation and delivery of executive level presentations.  
• Create and execute detailed program plans, key documentation, processes, schedules for tasks, teams and UAT.  
• Own program scope and related change management processes, analyzing impact of change, proposing an effective change management plan and working to maintain changes once in place.  
• Work with the Product Owner to deliver key insights to help arm the technical team as they evolve our products and services.  
• Lead the knowledge transfer from program team to project team to support teams, and ensure solutions are stable and supportable.  

 

Required Technical Skills and Experience: 

• You have 10+ years of project and program management experience on increasingly complex projects with heavy dependencies.  
• You have Experience shipping software as a Program Manager.  
• You have highly developed relationship-building skills and the ability to establish credibility and influence within EA and external development partners.  
• Effective delivery of products using Waterfall/Agile development methodologies.  
• Bachelor’s  degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.  

 

Performance Competencies: 

• You are able to build great partnerships, with ability to drive shared goals across multiple groups.  
• You are able to engage with, listen to, and understand internal and external partners to discover what their needs are.  
• You are able to use critical thinking to take on complex and ambiguous situations quickly and efficiently, bringing clarity and a way forward where there may be differences of opinion.  
• You are able to proactively evaluate and then manage risks and dependencies.  
• You are able to communicate clearly with initiative partners (and other interested parties), keeping them informed in a timely manner and on board with changes that need implementation across the studios.  
• You are able to effectively manage your time, prioritize a multitude of requests and draw on support for help if the path isn’t clear.  
• You are able to show a high degree of initiative and leadership to ensure continuous improvement and demonstrate improved outcomes from this standardization. 

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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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. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. 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.

Days Open: 86

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

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. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. 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.