Technical Product Owner - Frostbite (Foundation)

Requisition Number: 153294

Position Title: Sr. Technical Product Manager 2

External Description:

At EA, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create amazing experiences for our players everywhere and we consider our players’ experiences first in everything we do.  Creating transformational experiences requires constant innovation and brilliant, passionate people. We are developing extraordinary new game experiences by bringing together great people that combine creativity, technology, and expertise to deliver new ways to play. EA is driving the next revolution in games. Join us!

We are Frostbite

Frostbite is EA’s state of the art multi-platform game development engine. We empower game creators to shape the future of gaming and we achieve this by developing leading-edge engine features and world class tools. Our talented team from across the globe is dedicated to building innovative technology and working closely with teams across EA to ship amazing games. Frostbite powers some of our industries’ most visually stunning games with deep player experiences in the industry.

Why join the Frostbite Foundation Team?

As a member of the Foundation team you will be working on core technologies that are the fundamental building blocks of the Frostbite engine. The Foundation team works on leading-edge low-level technologies that span a huge number of domains. There are many opportunities available for learning and gaining unique expertise.

Team members may find themselves:

• Writing concurrency support solutions for frostbite engine
• Managing standard libraries like EASTL
• Working with the latest hardware, sdks, and c/c++ compiler toolchains
• Creating technologies for diverse areas like memory systems, concurrency runtimes, math libraries, and compression technologies
• Developing platform abstraction engine layer
• Solving complex problems affecting all areas of Frostbite such as maximizing the runtime performance for a generic, data-driven engine or optimizing prioritized asset streaming

What does a Technical Product Owner do?

As a Technical Product Owner on the Foundation team you will be uniquely positioned to guide the future technology of Frostbite and Electronic Arts. You will be a part of daily interactions with many of the most experienced engineers and designers in the company to help solve some of our most engaging problems. Your contributions will be used to build the next wave of incredible EA titles and help define the direction of all higher level Frostbite systems, while impacting thousands of daily users.

Key Responsibilities

• Define product vision and communicate long terms goals with internal teams and stakeholders.
• Present and sell the product, including teams successes and improvements, internally and externally.
• Own the quality and long term health of the product, ensuring development is sustainable.
• Prioritize product development between customer requests, Frostbite long-term goals, quality improvements and cutting edge technology.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, partners and the development team.
• Provide direction and motivation for the development team, prioritizing the team's work and describing what the expected outcomes are.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or greater in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.
• High level of proficiency with C++.
• Multithreaded programming and debugging experience.
• Strong focus on software quality, performance and testability.
• Experience in C# and WPF.
• Software development experience with Tools.
• Strong technical communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with data driven visual programming languages.

Bonus points if you have

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment.
• Follow Agile methodologies
• Constantly innovate to improve product quality as well as group productivity.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts, principles and solutions.
• Demonstrates dependability and commitment to projects/tasks.
• Good business sense – ability to manage non-technical hurdles to getting things done.
• Culture of continuous learning, plus the ability and hunger to take on new challenges.

What else is in it for you? Glad you asked!

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages. Since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.  

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• How the Frostbite engineis shaping the future of gaming
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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: 180

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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.