EA SPORTS is a leading brand in entertainment, known for connecting fans globally through innovative video games. The Game Product Manager will collaborate with various teams to enhance the live service experience, focusing on content strategies and player engagement.
Responsibilities
- Translate the weekly goals of the Live Product into an executable plan for Content Producers, by prioritizing the necessary tasks that will accomplish the desired player outcome and entering them into scope documents and workflow management systems
- Create detailed execution criteria for content offerings and messages, based on your knowledge of the game and the player while balancing this with the directional strategy from Economy Product Managers
- Create compelling and clear, player facing descriptions for digital content in-game products
- Work with artists to generate exciting visual assets that help players interact with live content
- Translate design briefs for store and economy reward mechanisms into executable requests and manage these requests with the various partner teams
- Use analytics dashboards, game expertise and pricing data to run economy simulations and provide balanced pricing recommendations for the content each week
- Create store contents (eg: in-game purchasable packs) that will be appealing to the player base by using your knowledge of the game and analysis of player sentiment
- Create a weekly schedule that will be exciting to players, then manage the scheduling and launch of packs and content in game according to the learnings from results of the previous week
- Using merchandising techniques such as messaging, player notifications, recommendations and behavioral analytics to produce content that players enjoy over the entire title year
- Create and maintain a roadmap that will drive year over year store improvements
Skills
- Experience with games with a player first mentality
- Minimum of 1 years of Product Management or Game Design experience required (ideally in Live Services)
- The ability to critically evaluate design, art and economy to feed into content design
- Strong analytical skills and experience with data-driven design and decision making
- Strong communication and writing skills, with experience preparing and presenting decks to various stakeholders
- The ability to work in a fast paced AGILE development environment
- Experienced in designing content, writing copy, campaign events and game reward features
- Must be available on call/work on weekends
- A football fan with an understanding of the core mechanics of FC
Benefits
- 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
- Healthcare coverage
- Mental well-being support
- Retirement savings
- Paid time off
- Family leaves
- Complimentary games
Company Overview
EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. It was founded in 1991, and is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.EASports.com.
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