Production Director

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

The Role

EA SPORTS Tiburon is looking for a Production Director to build and lead key development areas of a new team working on a brand new game, delivering play experiences for a wide range of American Football fans across console and PC . This is an opportunity to mold a team from the ground up delivering new live services, design new ways to play, allowing more fans to engage in their football fandom.

As the Production Director on the team, you will lead multiple core areas of the new product, to potentially include; systems and metagame design, leading and building teams of environment artists, content designers, and level designers for open world elements, and / or driving user experience designers and UI artists in the creation of strong presentation elements for our game.

Your Responsibilities

• Guide the vision and execution for major areas of new American Football IP from prototype through to final shipping. Align your team and stakeholder to the vision, present and sell, interpret player data and more.
• Establish roadmaps for game experiences, aligning with the broader goals of EA SPORTS titles and EA.
• Use insights to create features that deliver against the motivations of our target players. Lead brainstorming sessions to spur creativity across the team. Make decisions that lead to an MVP target.
• Guide team culture as part of the leadership team to build a highly engaged, high performing team.
• Work with Production, Art, Design, and Engineering lead to improve quality, communication and coordination.
• Partner with Development Directors to manage the project schedule, milestones and sprint deliverables.
• Partner with Art, UX, Engineering, QA, and Design teams to ensure the quality and timeliness of all deliverables are met.
• Engage with other partner teams, including publishing, marketing, finance, legal, consumer insights, and game analytics.
• Set and drive the quality bar for your overall experience, features and gameplay.
• You will report to the Executive Producer for the new IP.

Required Qualifications

About Electronic Arts

We're proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

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.

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