Vancouver, Canada
Not specified
Intermediate
Office work
Live Producer - EA SPORTS™ UFC
Vancouver, Canada
EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.
The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe. It delivers fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime.
If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, and your passionate about your craft, this is the role of a lifetime.
Producers are the bridge between the design team and project managers. They oversee what experiences we build, why we build them, and how we deliver them to our players. A love for mixed-martial arts and the UFC series is a strong benefit, not a requirement.
You will focus on UFC’s Live Service from a production perspective, managing live programs, including roadmaps, scoping, dependencies, and release of content updates. You will take the lead as an internal developer’s primary contact, working with developers on the creation of project and milestone schedules, and post-launch content update planning and overall development plans; provide ongoing management checks and balances throughout the full live operations of the title, from launch onwards. You will report directly to the UFC Lead Producer and will partner with other Producers, Game Designers, Artists, and partner team members to further the growth of UFC's live service.
- Partner with our Live Service Team’s to ensure priorities can be completed and roadmaps are aligned
- Identify and lead game plans to ensure our team and developers have goals, frameworks, and priorities needed to make the features you’re responsible for. Ensuring a successful launch, on time and at quality.
- Partner with business development, product management and creative teams to ensure we are making the right decisions for our developers and players, ensuring we are on track to achieve title goals.
- Feedback on, improve, and take an active part in implementing the Live Service production strategy for the portfolio including pipelines and processes
- Assist team in budget and scope management against individual game updates and Live Service plans
- Help resolve unique, complex product issues through ingenuity, creativity, and any other means necessary
- Identify risks early and often, removing roadblocks and performance bottlenecks
- Work cross-functionally to create a healthy team culture based on communication, transparency, and shared context
- 4+ years of Live Service production experience from console/AAA gaming
- 7+ years experience in game production and have proven experience shipping AAA games
- Experience leading complex projects with delivery of quality, schedule and in balancing scope, capacity, budget, risk, and time
- Experience shipping and/or running live updates on multiple games simultaneously
- Experience working with external partners and/or at a game publisher
- Knowledge of Live Service production, the difficulties generally encountered by teams, and solutions tailored to their requirements
- Experience with video games, innovations in software, and how they enrich the player experience
- A passion for mixed-martial arts, EA SPORTS UFC and/or Sports Gaming in general is a bonus, not a requirement.
- A master of influence, helping others understand and become passionate about their work.
- A passion for pioneering and encouraging others to consider different perspectives.
- A love for working with a diverse group of people to accomplish something great as a team.
Ceci ne s’applique pas au Québec.
BC COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.
EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.
BASE SALARY RANGES
• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria):
º $107,600 - $147,100 CAN Annually
Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.
