Producer, EA Sports, Madden & College Football

Job Description

Producer, EA Sports, Madden & College Football (6 Month Temp Role)

The future of entertainment is interactive, and our Marketing team plays an important role in this future by building content, culture, and community around our brands. We empower audiences to Play, Create, Watch, and Connect across our amazing franchises and experiences, including The Sims, Madden NFL, EA SPORTS FC, Apex Legends, and Battlefield. We're a multi-functional group, with world-class expertise in building fandoms, driving interactive storytelling, and positioning our franchises at the center of the broader entertainment ecosystem.

The Producer role sits within our Marcom Creative organization and plays an important role at the intersection of production and creative. By encouraging close relationships with content creators and keeping in constant communication with partners, the Producer guides the production of assets from creation to deployment. As a content Producer for EA SPORTS Madden and College Football, you will manage campaign assets (key art, social content, trailers), brand design artwork, DOM (email images & video), and community content. You will report into a Senior Producer. Please Note: This is a 6 month temporary role.

Responsibilities:
• Maintain asset trackers and sync with CFX teams and other partners to ensure understanding on asset production statuses and timing.
• Organize frequent creative reviews with dev, brand, social, licensee's/licensors like the NFL, as well as other team members to solicit feedback and approval on latest cuts.
• Create work back and production schedules based on delivery dates and keep interested parties updated on production deadlines & milestones.
• Read scripts and provide creative and editorial feedback to creative director, ensuring vision is aligned with brand vision, schedule, budget and quality targets.
• Research and maintain content best practices and optimizations together with strategy teams.
• Manage post-production vendors w/ Group Sr. Producer including review bids for accuracy, consistency and once approved, initiate SOW's and PO requests.
• Forecast and maintain asset production budgets and meet with finance partners to ensure accuracy of budget control documents.
• Initiate music licensing and composition requests with EA's music group, confirming usage, territory, timeline, and artist credits.
• Send trailers and other assets to EA's Legal team with proper caveats for review and confirm required disclaimers.
• Sync with EA's localization team to confirm on time delivery of localization projects and assets.
• Provide rapid response to executive & senior leadership team request for assets for special use cases, events, board meetings, award shows, etc.
• QC all assets for accurate spelling, required legal copy, ESRB ratings, correct end slate CTA's, and ensure files are error free.
• Source in-game assets for vendors including working with game producers to understand asset availability.
• Send links to final assets including thumbnails, metadata, and video needed for final deployment email.
• Partner with main team leaders to guide the creative execution and production of AAA assets for a global sports and gaming audience.
• Maintain a clear overview of all content creation and instinctively delve into details when a more hands-on approach is required.
• Communicate schedules, status, risks, challenges, and solutions throughout the company.

Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience in applicable field such as cinema/tv, video games, communications, media, etc.
• 6+ years of experience in asset production at video game or creative content studios
• Willingness to travel on a basis for studio meetings, and shoots
• Comfortable working with a wide array of technical tools and workflows, including Airtable, Asana, Smartsheet, Frame.io, Frontify, Google Drive
• You are a master of influence, carefully balancing creative excellence with on time delivery while following budget constraints and looking for savings.
• Be an accomplished mediator and resolver of conflicts, able to help people and teams with opposing points of view come together and agree on goals and solutions.
• Can distill complex plans down to their path and proper milestones.
• Have knowledge of game titles, Madden, College Football, American Football culture and the NFL

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 $77,600 - $119,000 CAN AnnuallyBase 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, and after 3 months of service - extended health/dental/vision coverage and basic life insurance.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rj4zz0-3-141-192-51-42 in your application.