Esports
Associate Producer - EA SPORTS FC™ Mobile, Business Operations
Mid Level
Vancouver, Canada
in office
Full time
Job description
About the Role
The Associate Producer, Business Operations works with central organisations such as Publishing, Marketing, Product Management and Mobile Central Technologies on behalf of the Development Team. The role helps create roadmaps, drive priority and participate in value assessments of internal and external tools. It sits within the international EA SPORTS FC Mobile team and involves extensive co-ordination with remote teams around the world on a large and complex licensed IP.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with central organisations such as Publishing, Marketing, Product Management and Mobile Central Technologies on behalf of the Development Team, and partner with internal teams to create value propositions, collect requirements and plan roadmaps for new tools and optimisations.
- Work across interdisciplinary teams to coordinate deliverables and ensure their highest quality and success.
- Identify opportunities to grow live operations services and tools, and work in collaboration with multiple partner groups towards implementation.
- Work with a global team to help drive and coordinate each release of EA SPORTS FC Mobile.
- Work with PM to craft estimates for business opportunities, follow up on their success against targets and draft plans for improvement.
- Be a point of contact and strategist for global teams working on Ads and Sponsorships, Community, Publishing and Marketing.
- Develop successful partnerships with global and regional teams in multiple time zones, including Shanghai, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.
- Help prepare and track App Store and Google Play Store assets as well as first-party featuring assets for large global updates.
- Collaborate with the business operations team and the development team on feature prioritisation, production and quality executions.
- Provide clear and concise communication to the production team on emergent or ongoing executions as well as updates related to tools and services.
- Work closely with the community management team to understand users, identify areas for improvement and help communicate their needs to product stakeholders.
- Help translate requirements gathered from user feedback, data and market competition to drive business growth.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- A minimum of 3+ years' experience working in games development as a producer, marketing, product manager or equivalent.
- Experience in game development with relevant experience working on a live service game producing features or content.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams on a live mobile game.
- Experience establishing clear communications between multiple teams, ensuring that actions and goals are completed on time and to quality expectations.
- Experience working with interdisciplinary experts, with the ability to consider and incorporate diverse perspectives and feedback.
- Experience in a leadership role and the ability to coordinate and drive a remote team to accomplish shared objectives.
- Production or project management experience on a live service mobile game.
- Experience working with engineering, product management and marketing teams.
- Experience driving cross-functional teams toward a high-achieving outcome.
Preferred Skills
- A love for global football and its stars, and a passion for football/soccer, with a desire to work on a product that celebrates them for players all over the world.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (email, Slack, video calls, PowerPoint). The associate producer will need to communicate with both internal and external teams.
- Leadership skills and the ability to drive actions and deliverables from conception to completion.
- Organisational skills, including the ability to self-motivate and manage time and priorities effectively.
- Understanding of user experience on mobile with a 'player first' mentality.
- An eye for detail, able to articulate value propositions, as well as identify risks and opportunities.
- A passion for providing a safe and inclusive environment for all team members.
- Passion for working on the business side of mobile games, beyond game development.
Workplace
- British Columbia, Canada (location within British Columbia may vary, e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria).
- International team with co-ordination across remote teams in multiple time zones, including Shanghai, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia.
Benefits & Perks
- Vacation: 3 weeks per year to start.
- 10 days per year of paid sick time.
- Company top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave).
- Extended health, dental and vision coverage.
- Life insurance.
- Disability insurance.
- Retirement benefits to regular full-time employees.
- Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and long-term cash programmes.
About the Company
EA Mobile is dedicated to creating high-quality mobile games connected to some of the world's biggest gaming franchises, with FIFA Mobile leading the way.
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