IT Asset Management & Purchasing Lead

Requisition Number: 184669

Position Title: IT Specialist II

External Description:

We are the IT team who supports AAA game development in a highly collaborative environment at our Los Angeles, Wisconsin & Canada studios; Respawn Entertainment, Ripple Effect Studios, EALA at Electronic Arts (EA).

Come help us power the future of play with the teams developing Apex Legends, Medal of Honor, Star Wars Jedi Fallen order and more.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage Purchasing Ticket Queue 
• Respawn
• WiP to support EALA, Seattle
• Coordinate and Develop IT Budget Allocation in collaboration with game team leadership.
• Meeting with Respawn Operations (Henry Lee) to align on headcount and ensure alignment on hardware expectations.
• Meeting with Game Teams on a regular basis to advise on current spend and ensure alignment (Minimum-Monthly)
• Consult on the dDevelopment, maintenancemaintainence, and improvement of Purchasing and Procurement policies and workflows.
• Ensure all parties involved are aware and follow policies.
• Consult on the development, maintenance, and improvement of Develop, maintain, improve Asset Management policies and workflows.
• Develop and maintain relationships with various Vendors for the benefit of Respawn/EA
• Meet on a regular basis to ensure alignment of Respawn needs.
• Ensure best pricing possible through developed relationships and negotiations.
• Project Management 
• Coordinate with internal EA IT teams to support international Respawn Employees
• Coordinate with various EA IT teams to develop and ensure alignment on processes and workflows. 
• Manage, maintain, improve Software & Licensing 
• Maintain records in Monday.com.
• Maintain renewal process to ensure zero downtime.
• Manage, maintain, improve Hardware Inventory 
• Asset Panda
• Audits
• Supervise Asset Specialist
• Set roles and responsibilities (TEKsystems MPS team member(s))
• Ensure compliance with process and policies. 
• ESet hardware policy and ensure compliance with HW policy within the IT team.
• Oversee Software Purchases for EALA & Seattle Studios
• Maintain records in Monday.com.
• Source seed/test units to ensure alignment with Respawn requirements.
• Run hardware tests and develop baseline data.
• Coordinate with POCs and Game Teams to deploy units for real world evaluation.

FY25 Goals:

• Budget Modernization
• Work closely with FP&A to create processes and workflows ensuring alignment between our departments throughout the fiscal year.
• Update and simplify our budget tracker to better meet data needs.
• Collaborate with finance to pull data from iProc and create a template to organize data, aiming to replace the manual budget tracker. This will reduce the risk of error and ensure a more complete data set for reference.
• Generate a modernized model for creating the IT budget that aligns with Finance, reduces redundant meetings, and ensures all relevant data is accurate and available in advance.
• Track our spending in more detail to ensure appropriate expenditure throughout the year, with the goal of being within 5% of total budget allocation.
• Software
• Continue developing our process for tracking and maintaining software and licensing purchases and deployment (e.g., Monday.com, ServiceNow, etc.).
• Ensure zero downtime for the business due to software lapses.
• Develop a process for removing software licenses.
• Continue working through the legal workflow to better align with policies and establish proper expectations.
• Hardware
• Continue developing hardware policies and workflows.
• Optimize our equipment return process.
• Optimize our use of repurposed equipment.
• Continue developing our inventory and audit process to ensure complete and accurate data within Asset Panda.
• Organize and secure IT equipment in Osborne and all locations.
• Asset Specialist Role
• Develop the Asset Specialist role to meet Respawn's equipment needs.
• Automation
• Focus on identifying areas where automation can play a part in achieving all goals and day-to-day tasks.

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

EEOText: EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부, 또는 법으로 금지된 기타 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. 또한, 해당 직책에 합당한 능력을 갖추고 있다면 범죄 기록이 있는 지원자도 관련 법률을 준수하는 방식으로 채용 여부를 고려합니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.

Days Open: 4

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.