EA's Production Infrastructure & Engineering (PI&E) organization provides the essential platforms and infrastructure hosting solutions that power EA's games and live services. Our charter is to make EA's games and services available to all players anytime and anywhere. To do this, we focus on the high availability of infrastructure, live services, and studio services. We aim to help developers to experiment and build new games quickly with infrastructure services on-demand and workflows that promote rapid development in the cloud. In all of this, we focus on being there for players where and when they want to play.
As Operational Data & Insights (ODI) Technical Product Manager, you will build and promote roadmaps that expand our observability platform, tracing, service catalog, self-service portal, data insights, and automated database management. Together these platforms and workflows enable many game and service teams' requirements spanning asset management, technology programs, and efficient operations.
You will report to the Head of Program & Product Management.
Responsibilities:
You will establish long-term product direction for Observability, Big Data manageability and Data insights platforms and workflows.
You will develop product roadmaps and specifications required for Observability, Big Data systems, & Data Insights platforms, and inform engineering teams on goals, scenario prioritization, and customer requirements.
You will define user personas, jobs to be done, and user stories needed to prioritize product backlog and roadmaps.
You will partner with our customers (game studios, service engineering teams, and business partners) to understand their requirements and work together to create needed solutions.
You will partner with other product managers to create cohesive strategies and roadmaps across organizational boundaries.
You will foster an environment that is customer-focused, data-driven, and hypothesis- / experimentation-based.
You will engage with external communities to stay up to date with industry trends and innovations.
You will help evolve the product management discipline and practices within our team.
You will define and measure key performance indicators focused on customer feedback, engagement, adoption, retention, and workflow success.
Qualifications:
8+ years of experience in product management with a focus on observability, monitoring, and data insights.
Experience with Prometheus and Grafana products or equivalent solutions (ELK stack, DataDog, Splunk, New Relic, Sumo Logic…)
Experience building data products using Big Query, Snowflake or Redshift
Experience with AI and machine learning technologies and SaaS offerings is nice to have.
Understanding of data management across technology and business domains.
Experience in cloud computing, online gaming, or similar industries.
A combination of technical knowledge and a customer-focused mindset.
Experience with complex products/platforms in public or private cloud.
Familiarity with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), major Cloud Service Providers (AWS, GCP, and Azure), and cloud services for virtual networking, compute (VMs, containers, & orchestration), and storage (object, block, file, and db).
Experience delivering products that developers, DevOps engineers, and business users consume.
Ability to translate related technology solutions to customer use cases.
Data-driven decision-making and a customer-centric approach to product development.
Experience with documentation and work tracking tools like Confluence, GitLab, JIRA, Teams/Sharepoint.
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or equivalent experience.
About Electronic Arts
Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.
We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.
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We exist to inspire the world to play. We put our people first, and we thrive off their diversity in our innovative technology and immersive storytelling. We’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community, no matter where you’re working from. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and transform the future of gaming. Join us.