- Company Name
- Electronic Arts (EA)
- Job Title
- Senior Director Product Management - PI&E
- Job Description
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**Job title**
Senior Director Product Management – PI&E
**Role Summary**
Lead the product management organization for infrastructure cost optimization, capacity forecasting, and vendor lifecycle within EA’s Production Infrastructure & Engineering platform. Own end‑to‑end product strategy, execute multi‑year roadmaps, and build a high‑performing PM team that drives measurable cost savings, scalability, and vendor excellence across game studios and live services.
**Expectations**
- Articulate and evolve a vision for cost management, capacity, and vendor optimization that aligns with engineering, finance, and business priorities.
- Deliver sustained, data‑driven value through product decisions that balance ROI, technical feasibility, and customer impact.
- Grow and mentor a cohort of product managers, instilling rigorous product practices, career development, and a culture of experimentation.
- Influence senior stakeholders across technical, financial, and operational domains.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Define long‑term strategy and product vision for cost optimization, capacity planning, and vendor lifecycle management.
- Build and maintain multi‑year roadmaps; prioritize initiatives against business, technical, and financial criteria.
- Partner with game studios, live‑service teams, and finance to shape and ship high‑impact capabilities that unlock cost efficiency and operational resilience.
- Lead, coach, and scale a product management team; set clear OKRs, track progress, and foster continuous improvement.
- Institutionalize product operations standards (intake, roadmapping, prioritization, metrics) and embed them across the organization.
- Champion a data‑centric, customer‑first culture; drive experimentation, learning, and rapid iteration.
- Stay abreast of FinOps, cloud optimization, and infrastructure best practices; inject fresh ideas into strategy and execution.
**Required Skills**
- 10+ years of product management experience, including deep expertise in hybrid/multi‑cloud infrastructure cost optimization.
- Proven track record delivering multi‑year product strategies at enterprise scale.
- Leadership experience building and developing high‑performing product teams.
- Strong knowledge of FinOps practices, cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP), and core infrastructure components (VMs, containers, networking, storage).
- Financial acumen: budgeting, forecasting, ROI analysis, and cost‑benefit discussions.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder‑management skills across technical and business audiences.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field (MBA or advanced degree preferred).
- Relevant professional certifications (e.g., PMP, Product Management Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure M365 Certified, Google Professional Cloud Architect) are a plus.