Assistant Content Producer - EA SPORTS™ FC (12 Months Temporary)
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!
Reporting to a Lead Producer, an FC Live Content Curation Producer works closely with the production, product management, art, and quality verification teams to create compelling live content that the EA SPORTS FC player longs for.
The FC Live Content Curation Producer will have a rare mix of strategic knowledge and creative instinct, translating data and ideas into relevant plans that benefit our players.
Additionally, you will have experience in game production, development, or product management for a live service product, and will be familiar with football (soccer) as a sport, including players, teams, and leagues from both the men's and women's game. You will also need a good eye for product quality and consumer usability. You are a perfectionist, and nothing will escape your keen attention to detail; you will have considered every possibility in your creation.
If you enjoy working on a production team, developing content for millions of fans, while evaluating and critiquing existing ideas/processes, and coming up with new ones, this is the role for you!
Your Responsibilities
The FC Live Content Curation Producer will work with others on the team to build live content designs, using complex spreadsheets, design documents, and internal tools.
- Translate real-world football events into live content ideas/plans on short notice, sometimes requiring flexible work hours to mirror them.
- Develop live content plans and strategies to implement with the goal of retaining and engaging players, based on data you have collected from dashboards, peers, or through other research methods.
- Work directly in custom tools to create, verify, and publish live content to our players.
- Work with the quality verification team to ensure all content is at the expected quality standards.
- Work with other Producers to meet deadlines, targets, and priority changes.
- Collaborate with Product Management and art teams to coordinate deliverables and ensure the highest quality and success.
- Become an expert on the game and our community, drawing from our large, varied player base and our past games to make and defend intelligent design choices going forward.
- Be resourceful and solve problems using the tools and time available to create unique and fun experiences for players.
- Have an eye for establishing and improving processes to make the Live Content Curation team's lives easier.
- Help establish best practices for the team and lead by example.
Your Qualifications
- 2-4 years experience working on a live service product, with relevant experience in production, product management, quality verification or game design being a plus.
- High levels of attention to detail, with a proven track record of being able to spot defects or issues that may not be apparent at first glance.
- Good eye for game quality and advocate for the end-user experience.
- You are a football (soccer) fan and you are familiar with players, teams and leagues from the men’s and women’s game.
- Experience with game production tools and Project Management software are a plus.
- Experience working with a remote team through all phases of the live product cycle.
- An understanding of the core mechanics of Ultimate Team and other core game modes within FC.
- Ability to think outside the box to solve complex time sensitive problems.
- Knowledge and proficiency in improving team efficiencies and processes.
- A/B testing knowledge.
- Knowledge of in-game economy management and power curve balancing.
This is a temporary 12-month position.