Senior Director, Product Management

Electronic Arts • Vancouver, BC

2d • CA$204,600 - CA$287,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Director of Product Management will lead a team of product managers in Electronic Arts’ Game Developer Experiences (GDX) organization, part of Central Technology. GDX provides foundational platforms, tools, and infrastructure used by engineers, artists, designers, and creators across more than 20 global studios. The role reports to the VP of Game Developer Experiences and focuses on reducing production bottlenecks and improving developer velocity, platform reliability, and AI-enabled workflows.

The position leads product strategy and an integrated roadmap across GDX, balancing immediate studio needs with longer-term investments in cloud-native development environments and AI workflow automation. It also shapes company-wide AI-assisted game development strategy and works with studios, Legal, Security, external technology providers, Engineering, and Finance to scale tools responsibly and optimize infrastructure costs. Occasional travel is required.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in product management, technology strategy, or platform engineering, including management of product leaders across multi-product portfolios.
• 5+ years of experience leading globally distributed product management teams across a portfolio, including career management and establishing best practices.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles, distributed systems, hybrid infrastructure, and high-throughput build and deployment pipelines.
• Experience establishing metrics, evaluating platform unit economics and total cost of ownership, managing multi-million-dollar investment trade-offs, and guiding cost optimization at scale.
• Experience aligning VP-level and C-level leaders across matrixed engineering and studio organizations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience defining product strategy for developer platforms, CI/CD and source control systems, cloud infrastructure, or engineering productivity tools.
• Hands-on experience scaling Generative AI or ML-assisted developer productivity tools across large engineering or creative organizations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Head of Engineering and studio technical leaders to define and deliver a long-term product vision and integrated roadmap across GDX.
• Lead product prioritization, balancing immediate studio concerns such as reliability, latency, and stability with longer-term investments in cloud-native development environments and AI workflow automation.
• Align leadership across Central Technology and Game Studios, advising VP- and C-level executives on portfolio trade-offs, technical dependencies, and multi-year R&D plans.
• Direct cross-company product strategy for AI-assisted game development, including coding assistants, AI-augmented content creation workflows, and evaluations of emerging technologies.
• Work with Studio Leaders, Legal, Security, and external technology providers to scale AI tools across thousands of creators while establishing governance, IP safeguards, and cost-effective model infrastructure.
• Evaluate cloud and on-premises infrastructure costs with Engineering and Finance teams to optimize total cost of ownership.
• Lead senior, lead, and director-level product managers.

Benefits

• Vacation (3 weeks per year to start).
• 10 days per year of sick time.
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child: 12 weeks for maternity and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave.
• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
• Benefits packages may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, and complimentary games.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior