# Director of Production, Content, Monetization & Progression (Apex Legends) **Company**: Electronic Arts **Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Category**: IT **Industry**: Technology **Ticker**: EA **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941 **Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/pl_PL/careers/JobDetail/Director-of-Production-Content-Monetization-Progression-Apex-Legends/216317?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d2198327-252 ## Description Electronic Arts creates top-tier entertainment, inspiring players and fans worldwide. Here, everyone is part of the story, part of a community that connects with the rest of the world. As Director of Production for Content, Monetization & Progression, you will lead the production organization responsible for initiatives and influence the broader Production organization. Reporting to the Executive Producer, you will manage and develop a team of Producers and Senior Producers, own the integrated delivery strategy across multiple cross-functional teams, and shape the operating model through which internal teams and external partners deliver high-quality player experiences at global scale. **Responsibilities** - People and Organizational Leadership: - Lead and develop a team of Producers and Senior Producers, including performance management, morale, career growth, succession planning, and hiring. - Establish clear roles, decision rights, and expectations so production leaders have the context and authority to lead effectively. - Partner with the Executive Producer and discipline leaders to shape organizational design, strengthen the production craft, and build an inclusive, high-performing team. - Portfolio and Delivery Leadership: - 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, and lead tradeoffs across scope, investment, and timing. - Establish portfolio-level operating rhythms and scalable production practices that remove bottlenecks, reduce friction, and improve predictability. - Identify, mitigate, and resolve meaningful risks within constraints while empowering Producers to lead day-to-day execution. - Player and Business Outcomes: - Partner with Product Management, Creative, Analytics, and Finance to evaluate investments across player value, engagement, business performance, development cost, and delivery risk. - Be a partner to 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 of portfolio health, investment options, delivery confidence, and organizational risk. - Global Development and External Partnerships: - Own the co-development and external production strategy, including partner selection, scope, budget, governance, quality, and performance. - Allocate internal and external capacity as live-service priorities change, and integrate partners into the broader development organization. - Establish effective planning, communication, and escalation practices across distributed teams while continuously improving development pipelines and quality. **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, including performance management, hiring, career development, and succession planning. - 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, including scope, budget, quality, and partner performance. - Ability to lead through ambiguity and guide teams through complex product, organizational, and delivery 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, challenge assumptions, and communicate tradeoffs. - A player-first mindset and an understanding of the responsibility involved in building monetization and progression systems for a large player community. - Experience with portfolio planning and reporting tools such as Jira, Confluence, or comparable platforms. **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. ## Skills ### Required - game development - software development - production management - team leadership - portfolio planning - capacity management - risk management - resource allocation - release readiness - co-development strategy - external production management - partner selection - budget management - quality assurance - performance management - succession planning - organizational design - production craft - inclusive team building - player value analysis - business performance evaluation - development cost analysis - delivery risk assessment - monetization planning - progression planning - player trust building - sustainable player experience creation - studio planning - portfolio health assessment - investment option analysis - delivery confidence evaluation - organizational risk assessment - global development strategy - external partnerships management - planning - communication - escalation practices - development pipeline improvement - quality improvement ### Nice to have - large-scale competitive multiplayer game development - AAA live-service title launch - team leadership across multiple studios - organizational change guidance - production operating model evolution - mentorship - teaching - speaking - writing - communities of practice participation --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ea.com](https://jobs.ea.com/pl_PL/careers/JobDetail/Director-of-Production-Content-Monetization-Progression-Apex-Legends/216317?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)