Description
Electronic Arts is seeking an Assistant Producer II - Football Data Automation to join the EA SPORTS FC Data Collection & Licensing team. The successful candidate will ensure football data accuracy through created automation solutions, collaborating with international teams to deliver authentic gaming experiences.
The Assistant Producer will report to the Development Director and work in a hybrid model, three days per week onsite in Cologne.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate football data production for assigned leagues, ensuring accurate, standards-compliant data and on-time delivery.
- Design and prototype data-driven modeling solutions, and local dashboards (Streamlit, Power BI) to automate, validate, and scale player, team, and league data.
- Manage delivery of assigned workstreams, track milestones, and provide clear status updates.
- Apply technical skills (SQL/Python) when delivering data, prototyping models and solutions, and performing testing.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Analytics, Game Teams, and external partners to manage dependencies and validate data accuracy.
- Support process optimization - capture improvement opportunities, pilot changes to rituals/tools/dashboards, measure the impact, and help scale what works.
Required Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, football data editing, or data operations with exposure to project management or product coordination.
- Hands-on technical experience with SQL for database analysis, Python for data modeling, prototyping, and analysis, and Power BI (or similar) for dashboard creation.
- Domain football knowledge and an understanding of global football leagues, teams, and player performance, combined with a familiarity with football event data structures.
- Experience processing and modeling real-world football event data and sports feeds.
- Demonstrated strength in planning, scheduling, execution, and supported by clear reporting.
- Excellent collaboration & partner communication; effective at unblocking teams and driving accountability across time zones.
- Familiarity with EA SPORTS FC game modes; live service environments are a bonus.
- Proficiency in English; additional languages welcome.
Benefits:
Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community well-being programs. Benefits are customized to meet local needs and may include medical insurance, mental wellness support, pension plans, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.