Game Director

Requisition Number: 160179

Position Title: Producer II

External Description:

“Who is EA Capital Games?”

We’re a mobile game studio headquartered in Midtown Sacramento, home to the highly successful title Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, the most successful Star Wars mobile game ever released, charting as the #1 grossing game in over 35 countries, and one of the Top 40 grossing games in the entire world across Apple and Google.

Collectively, we are a close-knit group of passionate gamers, obsessed with the creation of genre-defining mobile RPGs, and the vibrant live services necessary to support them. Our team culture is friendly,, results-focused, and collaborative. We take our work – but not ourselves – very seriously.

 

You'll report to Capital's General Manager.

 

What You’ll Do

• Create and deliver on the product vision, core pillars and business objectives.
• Working with the team and studio leadership, define the operational framework for product development, including development processes, production planning, status reporting, risk management, resource management and budgeting.
• Drive the game’s production execution. Ensure that key developmental and production goals are met, and the game is built for live service excellence from the onset.
• Proactively identify risks associated with meeting feature and release milestones; ensure steps are taken to address any risk to scheduled milestones
• Lead all aspects of third party and outsourced development.
• Ensure agreement on all aspects of product development and live service vision with external IP holder
• Communicate with game and studio leadership to track the status of milestones and ensure deadlines are met
• Work with Studio Finance to prepare accurate and reasonable project budgets and develop the game within that budget
• Sell the vision of the game across EA and our industry, including interviews & meetings with the press, partner companies, EA executives, etc.
• Incorporate a culture of data and analytics into the team from concept. Ensure strong partnership with design early and empower analytics and game product managers to help drive a data driven live service

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years as a Game Producer, Product Manager, Game Designer, or other relevant discipline with progressive management accountabilities
• 5+ years’ experience leading diverse, cross functional teams, including creative and engineering
• 10+ years leading a team of between 4 to 7 direct reports
• 5+ years of managing other managers
• Multi-year experience leading successful teams of 30+ people
• 5+ years with hiring and staffing accountabilities
• Experience leading game with $50K daily revenue
• 5+ years comprehensive P&L experience
• 5+ years’ experience with Game Service Partners (e.g. marketing, central tech, other central services)
• 2+ years overseeing published game titles, live services and game as a service/mobile
• Track record leading successful game titles from concept through launch
• Ability to partner with matrixed, internal resources
• Understanding of development lifecycle stages

“What’s in it for me?” 

Glad you asked! We love to brag about our great perks like free food, hosted happy hours, annual camping adventures, comprehensive health, and benefits packages, tuition reimbursement, company matched retirement, and many others! And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer great compensation packages and a culture that thrives off of creativity and individuality.

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

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Days Open: 32

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA 是一个奉行机会均等的雇主。 所有招聘决定均不考虑种族、肤色、国籍、血统、生理性别、社会性别、性别认同或表达、性向、年龄、遗传信息、宗教信仰、残障状况、医疗状况、怀孕状况、婚姻状况、家庭状况或退伍军人身份等因素的影响。 EA 还会遵照相关法律，为符合条件的残障个体改善工作环境。