Director of Production, Content, Monetization & Progression (Apex Legends)

Electronic Arts creates higher levels of entertainment experiences, motivating players and fans worldwide. In this role, you will lead the production organization responsible for keeping the Apex Legends experience fresh, rewarding, and sustainable.

As Director of Production for Content, Monetization & Progression, you will report to the Executive Producer and manage a team of Producers and Senior Producers. You will own the integrated delivery strategy across multiple cross-functional teams, shape the operating model, and ensure high-quality player experiences at a global scale.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of Producers and Senior Producers, focusing on performance management, morale, career growth, and succession planning.
• Establish clear roles, decision rights, and expectations for production leaders.
• Partner with the Executive Producer and discipline leaders to shape organizational design and build an inclusive, high-performing team.
• Own the integrated delivery roadmap across Content, Monetization, and Progression, translating product and creative goals into executable plans.
• Maintain clear visibility into capacity, dependencies, risk, quality, and release readiness.
• Establish portfolio-level operating rhythms and scalable production practices.
• Identify, mitigate, and resolve meaningful risks within constraints.
• Partner with Product Management, Creative, Analytics, and Finance to evaluate investments.
• Ensure monetization and progression plans support long-term player trust and a sustainable player experience.
• Represent the portfolio in studio planning and provide leadership with clear assessments.
• Own the co-development and external production strategy, including partner selection and performance.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of game development, software, or comparable product-development experience, including leadership of a complex development portfolio.
• Experience directly managing Producers or other production leaders.
• Experience leading multiple cross-functional teams or a major portfolio within a large-scale live-service game.
• Experience producing seasonal content, progression, economy, monetization, rewards, storefronts, events, or related live-service systems.
• Demonstrated ability to balance player value, creative ambition, business goals, technical constraints, development cost, and team sustainability.
• Experience with portfolio planning, capacity management, dependencies, risk, resource allocation, and release readiness.
• A track record of leading significant co-development or external production relationships.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and guide teams through complex changes.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to move between executive investment discussions and detailed delivery or technical conversations.
• Fluency with qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions.
• A player-first mindset and an understanding of the responsibility involved in building monetization and progression systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience launching and sustaining a large-scale competitive multiplayer or AAA live-service title.
• Experience leading teams across multiple studios, countries, or time zones.
• Experience guiding organizational change or evolving a production operating model.
• Contributions to the production community through mentorship, teaching, speaking, writing, or communities of practice.