Director, Game Product Manager

Electronic Arts is seeking a Director, Game Product Manager to lead the product management discipline at Playdemic, a BAFTA Award-winning developer and publisher of mobile games. As a Director, Game Product Manager, you will report to the Studio GM and be responsible for identifying key performance indicators (KPIs) and opportunities to ensure games are set up to succeed.

You will collaborate with studio leaders on achieving required KPIs, own feature lifecycles, and ensure hypotheses are measured and iterated upon. This leadership role involves high-level interaction with studio leadership, staff, product leadership, and development partners.

Key responsibilities:

• Own KPIs and work with leaders to drive results
• Oversee the Product Management discipline and mentor a team of Product Managers
• Build partnerships with game leadership teams, studio leadership, and EA development partners
• Collaborate with studio leaders to define KPIs for vision, mission, and strategy
• Oversee the Studio Machine Learning Financial forecasting pipeline
• Influence product plans and partner with production, design, and marketing to deliver on key KPIs
• Achieve targets for business opportunities
• Lead product strategy and prioritization discussions for all games
• Collaborate with studio leaders and game teams to lead feature impact assessments
• Identify and analyze industry best practices for optimization, merchandising, and feature implementation
• Increase user and competitive research to identify user segments and present findings to the team

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in product management, system design, live operations, and data science; mobile game experience
• Experienced manager and mentor of people
• Previous experience working as a Data Scientist
• Experience driving performance metrics across teams
• Influence with examples of data-based decision-making
• Passion for creating fun, compelling, and engaging user experiences
• Demonstrate scientific method experience testing qualitative hypotheses with quantitative data
• Experience at dissecting and analyzing games, systems, and features, and core game loops
• Curiosity to understand market movers and shakers
• Experience managing or understanding of Mobile Sports games or character collector games
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent professional experience

Benefits:

• Physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community well-being programs
• Health insurance, mental health support, retirement pension, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more