Production Director

- Act as a strategic bridge between creative intent and development execution, translating high-level vision into a clear direction that enables teams to deliver at AAA quality. - Provide leadership across the full development lifecycle, anticipating needs, setting executional direction, and ensuring teams are positioned to succeed at each phase. - Build and sustain strong coalitions across creative, technical, production, and partner teams, fostering alignment and shared ownership of outcomes. - Break down complex creative and technical goals into understandable, actionable components, ensuring teams understand both the _why_ and the _how_ behind their work. - Identify and mitigate risks early, drive resolution of cross-team challenges, and make informed tradeoffs that protect quality, schedule, and long-term franchise health. - Represent the project and production organization in communications with studio leadership, EA partners, and external stakeholders, including press as needed. - Establish and reinforce clear objectives, transparency, and accountability across teams to maintain alignment and momentum. - 10+ years of game development production experience, including senior-level leadership on multiple large-scale AAA titles. - Proven ownership on multiple games delivered from early concept through launch and live support, demonstrating strong leadership accountability. - Deep expertise in ARPG and RPG development, including systems, content pipelines, player expectations, and competitive analysis. - Led complex, multidisciplinary organizations around a shared creative vision. - Strong executive presence with an influence-based leadership style that builds trust, resolves ambiguity, and enables decision-making at scale. - Experience partnering with external development teams, vendors, publishing, marketing, first-party partners, press and lead initiatives around game showcases. - A track record of mentoring senior production leaders, developing high-performing teams, and shaping production culture and best practices at the studio level.