Hybrid Principal Product Manager bei Electronic Arts

Director, Product Management / Principal Product ManagerLocation: Austin, TXTeam: Game Developer ExperienceReports to: Senior Director, Product ManagementOverviewWe 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 ResponsibilitiesStrategic 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 Qualifications10+ 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 HaveExperience 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 UsWork 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. Jetzt bewerben