IT Director, Electronic Arts
Respawn
$170.5-259.3k
Salary dependent on location
Video game company
Open for applications
Video game company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$170.5-259.3k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inspire the world to play, by creating games and experiences for the global player community that are a reflection of our diverse world.
Role
Who you are
- Requires 10 or more years of experience in all aspects of IT
- Requires 3+ years of experience managing IT
- Experience managing teams with excellent leadership skills while influencing stakeholders
- Experience with game development pipelines
- Experience with IT Security best practices
- ITIL experience
- Experience managing technical teams
- Bachelor of Computer Science degree or equivalent work experience
What the job involves
- We are looking for an IT Director for Respawn Entertainment, the award-winning studio behind multi-platform games such as Apex Legends, Titanfall, and Star Wars Jedi
- As the IT Leader, you will help ensure the Studio has the technology, knowledge, and services they need to create world-class games
- Your role reports to the VP of Employee Technology and Customer Success |EA IT's Employee and Studio Experience (ESE), which is dedicated to providing the best tools and support for EA teams to perform at their highest potential
- As the IT Director for Respawn, you will guide business technology strategy, solution discovery, service and risk management, and relationship management with the Respawn studio and EA IT
- You will ensure the security of game development assets by following security requirements and operating procedures
- As the IT Director, you will guide strategies that align with our goals and foster innovation, scalability, and efficiency in game development
- You will align the IT roadmap with our studio goals, driving strategic technology decisions and leading investment budget planning
- You will ensure customer satisfaction by understanding and meeting needs, building relationships, and delivering IT services promptly
- Operationally, you will act as the escalation point from Respawn to EA IT, ensuring the studio receives high-quality services
- Set goals, coach, and grow employees
- Prioritize staff work intake from requestors, such as Respawn Global locations, Global IT, and EA Security
- Collaborate with global service lines such as Service Desk, Service Operations, and Infrastructure to ensure needs of Respawn are met
- Promote technology learning and usage within the department and studio
- Lead the evaluation, implementation, and support of studio technology
- Stay up to date with the latest developments in IT technology
- Educate Development Teams on global IT tools, strategies, and roadmaps
- Partner with IT and Respawn leadership to lead strategic technology decision
- Develop long and short-term IT strategies for Respawn, ensuring an understanding of studio needs and global IT goals
Our take
EA is a leading global game company, responsible for developing and publishing some of the biggest games of the last 20 years. Its publishing successes include giants like The Sims, Battlefield, and Mass Effect, while EA's titles, such as Fifa, Madden, and NBA Live, have also seen market-leading success.
A series of acquisitions in 2021 marked EA's push into mobile gaming, which has become the driving force behind the rapid growth of the global video gaming market, and has remained a clear focus for the company, despite the cancellation of its popular Apex Legends Mobile game. The company also expressed interest in NFTs and "play-to-earn" games, going so far as to label them "the future of the industry", but has since taken steps to distance itself from the idea, as it proved unpopular with gamers.
This combined model of publishing and development has allowed EA to put its name to a huge range of products, making the brand iconic in the gaming world. It has formed major partnerships with the likes of Disney, giving it full control of creating in-demand games, such as within the Star Wars franchise. In the upcoming years, the company plans to focus on games-as-a-service, as it embraces the evolution of the gaming world.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 1982
$2m
SERIES A
May 1982
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $2.2m
Company values
- Creativity: Striving to bring imagination, orginal ideals, and excitement to everything we do
- Pioneering: Acting with the curiosity and courage that it takes to experiment, innovate, and lead
- Passion: We are at our best when we pursue what we love, and have fun doing it
- Determination: Bringing focus, drive, and conviction to our actions. Thriving on the journey, and being mortivated to achieve excellence
- Learning: Listening, having humility, being open to new ways of thinking, and looking with a lens of inclusion. Challenging ourselves to grow and change as a company
- Teamwork: Committed to each other, and to the accountability and integrity tit takes to be a successful diverse team
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Andrew Wilson
(CEO, not founder)Joined EA as Vice President and Executive Producer in 2000, and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Electronic Arts
- Our intentional efforts to embed principles of diversity, equity and inclusion in our people practices have generated results across our teams.
- We have made progress in company-wide representation of women and underrepresented minorities.
- We have achieved a 46 percentage point increase in underrepresented talent in executive roles (VP+) over the last two fiscal years.
- We have hired underrepresented talent above our representation rates for the fourth consecutive year.
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