Global Stories, local voices.
We make games – how cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive entertainment experiences in the industry. But making games is challenging. That's why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.
EA inspires the world to play, and the Worldwide Localization Team makes that happen! We are accountable for delivering the high-quality localized versions of our titles to over 30 countries around the world. You will find a vibrant, multicultural environment with a great mixture of professionals where each employee has an important role to play. You will work on different groundbreaking tools and systems to provide Localization to our products.
EA has built a Localization powerhouse that covers the needs for both current and next-generation platforms.
The Challenge Ahead
Reporting to the Engineering Management you will be part of the Technichal Product Managers team in charge of two different areas where with the support of your manager you will create and execute the technichal strategy of the franchises assigned and coordinate the definition and development of the localization toolset. As TPM you will be the main technichal point of contact for the porfolios assigned, representing worldwide EA Localization in front of other teams and handling potential risks or conflicts.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Business Analysis:
- Capture and understand business and technical needs of the portfolio assigned.
- Document features identified during conversations with partners
- Create technical strategy plans to move and integrate the franchises assigned into the localization toolset.
- Influence Studios to implement technical localization best practices across all titles
- Ability to build a virtual prototype for stakheholders discussion
Project Management:
- Act as an effective reporting and coordination link between EA projects and the localization toolset. Actively participate in the on going prioritization of the bussines needs as per project needs and schedules.
- Track, predict and report:
- schedule and cost deviation, report them and propose actions for an appropiate mitigation, correction or compromises. Redo cost analysis and schedule accordingly.
- issues and risks (i.e.: quality degradation), report them and propose actions for appropiate mitigation, correction or compromises.
- Actively participate in postmortem processes and collection of partners feedback to measure satisfaction and distill future improvements and solutions needed
Product Management
- Ensure new features & user stories are aligned with the product vision.
- Build consensus of the business requests to maximize the development efforts.
- Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints
- Work with QA lead and architect to control quality, stability and performance of the product.
- Skills and Knowledge Required
Technical background:
- University Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent educational or working background.
- Conflict Management skills
- Project Management, Bussiness Analysis and CRM skills.
- knowledge in the foundations of Software Engineering and Develoment Life Cycle.
- Very good fluency in English (written and spoken)
- EssentialExperience Required
- 3+ years of professional experience in start to end Project Management (from conception to implementation, deployment and mantainance)
- Professional experience in Business Analysis and Requirement Analysis.
- Experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, ...) and Agile Project Management.
- Experience working in a multi-site and multi-cultural team.
Desirable
- Experience in Infrastructure or systems deployment.
- Technical experience in localisation projects or similar experience in the entertainment industry.
Desired skills:
- Use of AI to speed up tasks, operations and workflows.