Sr. Director Product Management

Job Description

The EA Digital Platform (EADP) group is the core powering the global EA ecosystem. We provide the foundation for all of EA’s incredible games and player experiences with high-level platforms like Cloud, Commerce, Data and AI, Gameplay Services, Identity and Social. By providing reusable capabilities that game teams can easily integrate into their work, we let them focus on making some of the best games in the world and creating meaningful relationships with our players. We’re behind the curtain, making it all work together. Come power the future of play with us.

One of EA’s top strategic priorities is to harness the power of community in and around our games. EADP is an important contributor to that strategy, and this role will play a central part as the product portfolio lead for Social and User Generated Experiences (UGX). You will be responsible for ensuring EADP enables our franchise strategies in these areas and develops technology to meet stakeholder needs both short and long-term. This role will partner with multiple organizations across EA to deliver complete platform solutions that are powerful and easy to use.

As Sr. Director of Product Management for Social and UGX, you will report into the Vice President of Product Management. You will manage two small teams of product managers, lead innovation and influence EADP's product teams and EA's game development teams to develop exceptional and differentiated experiences in the Social and UGX space for EA’s player community.

Location: Open to most locations within the United States and Canada.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage two small teams spanning Social capabilities and User Generated Experiences (Content services and Moderation).
• Define a compelling strategy to advance UGX capabilities on and around our platform. To do this, you must understand diverse customer needs and internal product/service requirements, and balance both from a platform owner’s perspective.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to shape the technical architecture and design decisions, ensuring the creation of scalable platform capabilities, and fundamentals.
• Set clear objectives to align team members both internally and cross functionally to deliver high value outcomes
• Use metrics and user feedback to guide ongoing innovation and refinement of Platform offerings

Skills / Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 10+ years experience in product management or equivalent
• 5+ years managing a team. Experience leading managers preferred.
• Experience building products that involve large-scale platforms or ecosystems. At least 2+ years working with developer-facing products (e.g., developer tools, consoles, SDKs) in a product role.
• Experience leading a product management team with responsibility over product strategy
• Demonstrated results delivering large-scale enterprise solutions/services, including roadmap development, product launches, and driving innovation.
• Platform mindset, with an understanding of microservices architecture, REST and gRPC APIs, cloud technologies and developer platforms.
• Technical acumen to lead design and architecture discussions with engineering teams focusing on end-to-end scenarios.

Ceci ne s’applique pas au Québec.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):

o $220,500 - $311,100 USD Annually

• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):

o $198,100 - $311,100 USD Annually

• Jersey City, NJ:

o $243,200 - $311,100 USD Annually

• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):

o $211,700 - $282,200 USD Annually

• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):

o $198,100 - $311,300 USD Annually

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria):

o $193,600 - $271,700 CAN Annually

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity. For British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.