Product & Analytics Director

Requisition Number: 170481

Position Title: Principal Game PM

External Description:

Pogo is building the world’s best online casual games destination, a place of playful relaxation and joy for millions of gamers across all walks of life. Our talented global team delivers state-of-the-art HTML5 games across the top casual genres, which support increasingly sophisticated metagames and social interactions. Pogo’s loyal fans and long-time subscribers count on us for fresh content, daily challenges, great events, and new games. Our live service delivers!

 

We are looking for an experienced product manager, producer, or analyst to lead the Pogo product team. This fully remote position can be performed from most locations in North America.

 

Role

 

As a member of the studio’s senior leadership, you will manage the product strategy and execution, leading a product and analytics team to monitor live service performance and plan new platform features. In this key leadership role, you will report directly to the Studio General Manager and have a high level of interaction with team members, partners, and studio leadership. You are the chief product leader and the product management expert for the studio. The Product Director focuses on product strategy, analytics, and financial results.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

Leadership

• Provide strong leadership to the team, inspire and motivate through personal example, enthusiasm, and dedication
• Promote a culture of healthy accountability, maximizing potential, recognizing accomplishments
• Manage a team of Product Managers and Business Analysts, directly manage three leads
• Collaborate with other senior studio leaders to support our vision, mission, and objectives; develop plans to achieve those goals
• Strengthen the product team through hiring and mentoring
• Assign and track PM, data, and analytical tasks to completion

 

Product Management

• Manage live services monetization, including advertising & games
• Build strategies to improve player engagement and acquisition
• Identify new features & feature improvements to enhance the platform and increase customer value, collaborate with production team on design and prioritization
• Monitor & evaluate health and performance of live services, features, and games
• Analyze player behavior & lifecycle (messaging, segmentation, personalization, game events, etc.) to uncover insights and inform product strategy

 

Analytics

• Build and maintain information gathering and data analysis systems to support decision-making
• Translate problems into structured analyses or data products that create actionable insights
• Analyze market trends & competitive landscape to identify opportunities that support business goals
• Develop frameworks to measure, evaluate, & predict the impact of features, systems, & content
• Use exploratory data analysis techniques to identify and validate meaningful relationships, patterns, or trends from complex data sets

 

Financial Management & Business Development

• Manage studio revenue, responsible for all earning inputs on the studio P&L
• Collaborate with finance manager to create and update revenue forecasts
• Drive live service, subscription, and ad performance to meet quarterly and annual forecasts
• Identify and manage revenue risk
• Develop strategies to improve revenue, including external partnerships
• Manage revenue share and royalty structures with external partners
• Coordinate with supporting organizations such as Finance, Central Analytics, and Central PM

 

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product experience in the software industry
• 4+ years in leadership roles with direct reports
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience in applying analytics to solve real-world problems
• Expertise using tools to track, model, analyze, and visualize data (Tableau, Excel)
• Experience in experimental design and A/B testing
• Ability to present high-impact plans and recommendations
• Sound decision-making based on both data analysis and judgment
• Ability to travel including internationally (10% post-pandemic)
• A high degree of initiative
• Ownership mentality: responsible, invested in outcomes
• Integrity

 

Bonuses

• Master’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience managing live services, especially web-based
• Previous Product Leadership or similar experience in a tech company
• Experience managing distributed teams and remote team members

 

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Company Profile:

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: 13

Can this position be remote?: 1

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.