Senior Lead Game Product Manager - NHL

Vancouver, Canada

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including EA SPORTS Madden NFL, FC, NHL, NBA LIVE, and UFC.

EA SPORTS NHL has revolutionized sports gaming for millions of players worldwide. We’ve pioneered award-winning creative technology and experiences to connect players to the speed, skill, and heart of the NHL.

The EA SPORTS NHL franchise is founded on passion and new ideas. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the team is composed of diverse talent dedicated to creating on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play. If you're a creative pioneer with a passion for your craft, this will be more than a job. It’ll be what you love.

On NHL, the Senior Lead Game Product Manager's mission, in close collaboration with the wider NHL Live Content Team, is to help create the most engaging and rewarding live service experience for our players. The candidate will have a mix of strategic acumen, creative instinct and analytical ability that can help create actionable plans and content strategies that benefit our players.

A NHL Senior Lead GPM is expected to interface directly with other Producers, Game Designers, Artists and external stakeholders to further the growth of NHL's live service.

Your Responsibilities

• Design and manage live content, campaigns and features that maximize acquisition, engagement and monetization throughout the product cycle.
• Conduct and communicate in-depth analysis of in-game economy trends using data insights and strong business acumen to impact top line KPIs.
• Be passionate about, and represent the voice and needs of our customers and partners within NHL
• Work closely with the game team to drive best-practice strategies in creating, balancing optimizing economy models for virtual economies.
• Develop and implement game health review cycles that carefully consider internal and external feedback as well as key product metrics to continually improve the product.
• Track and develop an expert level understanding of gaming trends and insights.
• Translate real world NHL events into live content ideas/plans on short notice, which may sometimes require flexible work hours to mirror real world NHL events.
• Own testing strategies, execute A/B testing campaigns and conduct post mortems.
• Collaborate with our internal technical partner groups, being a key stakeholder in technologies that impact the game or live service.
• Partner with Central teams and craft requirements for all player facing features outside of game team's scope.

Your Qualifications

• A passion for games with a player first mentality.
• Minimum of 5 years of Product Management or Game Design experience required (ideally in Live Services).
• Self-motivated team player that brings excitement and enthusiasm to work each day.
• Strong analytical skills and experience with data driven product design and decision making.
• Sound and proven ability in using and understanding in-game trends using data insights to impact top line KPIs.
• Strong communication and writing skills, with experience preparing and presenting decks to various stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to juggle priorities and projects.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced AGILE development environment.
• Highly desirable but not essential: An NHL fan with a good understanding of the core mechanics of NHL and it's live features.
• Experienced in:
• Successful live service console and/or mobile games having delivered and maintained at least one product through the product life cycle.
• Designing content, campaigns and features that maximize acquisition, engagement, and monetization throughout the product life cycle.
• Obtaining insights and developing strategies through analytical metrics driven analysis and design experimentation.