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

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.