Principal Product Manager

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

Director, Product Management / Principal Product Manager

Location: Austin, TX

Team: Game Developer Experience

Reports to: Senior Director, Product Management

Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced, technically grounded, and strategically minded Director of Product Management (or Principal Product Manager) to drive product vision, execution, and impact across a portfolio of platform capabilities and tools. You will be responsible for defining and delivering products that enable developers to build, launch, and operate world-class games with greater efficiency, quality, and speed.

This is a critical leadership role that demands a blend of technical fluency, strategic thinking, and operational excellence. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, design, operations, and game teams, and partner closely with technical and executive leaders across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define a compelling vision and roadmap for the product(s) that aligns with organizational goals and customer needs.
• Product Execution: Translate vision into clear, actionable requirements, documentation, and user stories; oversee development and ensure timely delivery.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, design, DevOps, QA, and game development teams to align on goals, define priorities, and deliver high-quality features.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Leverage data to inform roadmap decisions, measure feature success, identify performance bottlenecks, and validate user impact.
• Ecosystem Thinking: Build interoperable features within a broader platform, with an emphasis on cloud-native capabilities such as auto-scaling, self-healing, and redundancy.
• Customer Advocacy: Engage with internal users to understand pain points and ensure the product delivers tangible improvements to workflows and outcomes.
• Communication: Present product vision and roadmap to executive and senior technical audiences; build alignment across multiple disciplines and stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, including leadership roles across multiple product lines.
• Strong technical background through education or hands-on work experience.
• Proven success managing complex roadmaps across ecosystems or platforms.
• Ability to assess technical complexity and design staged rollout strategies for feature validation and risk mitigation.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and writing clear, detailed user stories and feature specs.
• Skilled at creating and interpreting dashboards to track KPIs, performance, adoption, and feature impact.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive presentations and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Experience building features that leverage modern cloud architectures and DevOps/LiveOps practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience hiring, mentoring, and career-managing product managers.
• Familiarity with game development processes, pipelines, and industry trends.
• Background in fast-paced, startup environments with lean, cross-functional teams.
• Track record of delivering innovative features, especially in AI/ML, with measurable impact.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and workflow optimization.
• Financial literacy, including managing budgets and creating business cases for features and platform investments.
• Passion for building products that improve developer productivity and enable creative excellence.

Why Join Us

• Work at the intersection of creativity and technology, enabling the future of game creation.
• Help shape foundational tools used by hundreds of developers across global studios.
• Be part of a culture that values innovation, inclusion, and continuous learning.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.