Tools Producer - EA SPORTS™ FC

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.

Building on an incredible 30 year foundation, we’re redefining football with EA SPORTS FC - a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences, bringing a global community of football fans closer to The World's Game. Together, we’re taking the largest football club in the world to new heights – and this is just the beginning! With more opportunity than ever to innovate and create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to fans everywhere, we invite you to join us as we pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS FC, and welcome everyone to the club! 

The FC Live Tools team is a key component of one of the most successful live services in gaming and is responsible for developing and maintaining tools used by FC Live team members to design, create and release content to engage players all year round.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with various feature owners across distributed dev teams to establish product goals for new live tools, or improvements to existing ones. 
• Author the tool feature-briefs, write product specs that can be consumed by engineering and aligned with other stakeholders. 
• Facilitate scope estimations, including aligning with product goals and identification and escalation of any technical or operational risks. 
• Work with stakeholders and other Live Tools leads to align the group on priorities. Communicate tradeoffs and alternative scope scenarios when required to cross-functional teams. 
• Define detailed, testable acceptance criteria for each spec and is available to clarify and adjust as necessary. 
• Drive delivery of multiple parallel initiatives without oversight.

Your Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of work experience as a Producer for software products.
• Experience with agile development processes. 
• Experience with working with distributed development teams. 
• Experience supporting a live service. 
• Experience in gathering requirements across a large group of stakeholders
• Experience in summarizing these requirements in brief documents, with user stories and acceptance criteria, to be consumed by software engineers. 
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management. 
• Experience in UI/UX is a bonus: experience creating wireframes.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence. 
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, managing both long term projects and urgent asks.

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 $89,300 - $123,000 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.