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FIFA Jobs
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via LinkedIn posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS... UFC. As an Animation Director you will ensure that everything EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS... UFC.

As an Animation Director you will ensure that everything that moves in the game achieves the AAA quality expected in all EA sports titles. You will accomplish this by managing the work of the animation team, working directly with the senior leaders of the studio and across EA, and ensuring the appropriate technologies, methodologies, and skills are being used to maximum effectiveness.

You Will
• Determine and accomplish the vision and quality bar of all motion in the game.
• Guide the quality of animation balancing performance, quality, continuity, technical, scheduling and budgetary requirements
• Manage the work of our animation team
• Provide daily feedback and direction to the animation team
• Guide the evolution strategy of the animation pipeline, establish efficient animation procedures
Working directly with:
• The creative and visual leadership to establish the animation direction, style, quality, and execution
• Designers and engineers to achieve compelling character and camera motion
• Technical animators, character riggers and modelers to ensure our characters move & deform beautifully
• Graphics engineers to ensure characters are grounded in the world with VFX like grass and weather, shadows, lighting.
• Physics engineers to ensure characters align with the physical limitations you determine and work with other characters and the environment in believable ways
Skills you have:
• A great eye for style and quality, combined with a deep technical skill set
• Experience in visual and technical innovation
• 8+ years of directing animation with excellent credentials on high credibility AAA games
• Team leadership, people and mentoring skills
• You can inspire and lead teams to accomplish time and to budget
• You can guide a team to balance creative goals with the requirements of production
• You can direct actors and other motion capture talent
• Knowledge of common practices and the understanding of industry trends
• You can setup and work with animation blending trees and state machines
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via XP Game Jobs schedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Senior Creative Copywriter, EA SPORTS FIFA/FC Global Marcom About The Job... The global in-house Marcom creative team at EA SPORTS FIFA is looking for a new signing to add to our squad. The Senior Creative Copywriter role is for a talented, ambitious individual with an impressive mastery of copywriting & creative concept work, along with a proven portfolio of doing what it takes to bring the best ideas to life. This is a rare, yet vital opening Senior Creative Copywriter, EA SPORTS FIFA/FC Global Marcom

About The Job...

The global in-house Marcom creative team at EA SPORTS FIFA is looking for a new signing to add to our squad. The Senior Creative Copywriter role is for a talented, ambitious individual with an impressive mastery of copywriting & creative concept work, along with a proven portfolio of doing what it takes to bring the best ideas to life. This is a rare, yet vital opening for a skillful playmaker who is willing to get stuck in and leave their mark on the beautiful game, learn & grow alongside an industry-leading team, and help craft the voice & creative vision for the future of EA SPORTS FIFA and EA SPORTS FC.

What We Are Looking For:

A unique, adaptable candidate that is as passionate about making the best work possible as they are about EA SPORTS FIFA & football, masterfully crafting a line of copy or creating a campaign from the ground up.

A positive, contagious presence on the pitch – leading with optimism, collaboration, and a sense of ownership, who is equally as able to work as a unit as they are to go on a mazy solo run when called upon.

A self-driven doer who isn’t afraid to explore creative territories on their own or ask questions that will help them develop match-winning concepts.

Someone tapped into art, design, and the creative world at-large, finding ways to communicate fresh ideas clearly within the world of FIFA.

Ultimately, a Senior Creative Copywriter developing world class ideas, supported by a work ethic to take them from a slide in a deck to a full stadium.

Responsibilities:
• Develop and build concepts for various FIFA campaigns
• Immaculate attention to detail and sharp tone of voice
• Work alongside the global creative team to craft the FIFA voice across various brand campaigns and day-to-day social & digital copy responsibilities
• Develop product messaging and feature naming for EA SPORTS FIFA/FC games.
• Create and maintain the EA SPORTS FIFA/FC Messaging Framework that defines our tone of voice for each campaign moment across key channels.
• Review and approve copy for use across channels including email, first party, club and talent partner, social, and beyond.
• Lead copy creation across web, editorial content, product features, and more
• Work with cross-functional FIFA team members to create content that will span across various EA & partner channels (including Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and more.)
• Reinforce the voice of FIFA, working to make sure that we are present in important cultural conversations across all content and platforms.
• Work alongside design leads, production partners, game capture teams and agencies to bring your ideas to life.
• Ensure creative ideas are well-articulated and on-brief.

Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in a creative role.
• Experience in creative work across copywriting, campaign concepting and execution, social media, film, or video.
• You are a creative storyteller at heart.
• You are interested in the power of football and understand the cultural and creative potential of the sport. If you are new to this space, you are eager to develop a deeper connection with the sport.

About EA SPORTS FIFA

At the heart of EA SPORTS is the FIFA franchise. EA SPORTS FIFA is the world’s #1 best-selling video game with over 200M engaged players across multiple platforms, including console, PC, and mobile. Innovation, passion, and teamwork are at the heart of everything we do. With studios in Vancouver, Bucharest, and Cologne, we’re looking for the brightest talent, so we can continue to create experiences that connect with millions of hearts and minds the world over
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via UX Research Jobs schedule_type: Full-time
UX Researcher - FIFA position at EA SPORTS. More info at UXResearchJobs.com UX Researcher - FIFA position at EA SPORTS. More info at UXResearchJobs.com Show more details...
via LinkedIn posted_at: 4 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs , and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE... basketball, and EA SPORTS UFC. EA SPORTS Madden NFL is the EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs , and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE... basketball, and EA SPORTS UFC.

EA SPORTS Madden NFL is the best-selling sports property in U.S. Video game history. Madden NFL is an immersive, simulation-based, authentic NFL interactive experience, empowering fans to play out their NFL fantasy of winning the Super Bowl (and much more). Madden NFL has entertained fans over three decades with more than 130 million lifetime units sold. Madden NFL is developed at EA's Tiburon Studio in Orlando, FL, and Madrid, Spain by a team that prides itself on innovation and creative collaboration. We are looking for talent with a passion for sports to create experiences that connect with millions of football fans around the world to grow the love of the sport.

Reporting to the Development Director, you will help build our core development team, specifically one of the back-end teams to shipping. We are looking for engineers who are strong at analyzing existing code bases and evaluating a variety of issues. Bug fixing in existing features and tools and the addition of new, dev-only features will be the core of your experience.

This is a temporary full-time role (12-month contract)

Your Responsabilities
• Merge code and data between multiple development lines.
• Maintain stability of the product during development.
• Ensure the product is stable in production.
• Debug and fix issues in the product or in the tools used to develop the product.
• Communicate priorities with partner teams.
• Propose, document, and implement changes to improve team processes.

Your Qualifications
• 2 years experience with C++ language, best practices, and architectural considerations.
• 2 years experience with debugging skills.
• Quickly ramp up on an existing code base.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and then the ability to re-prioritize accordingly.
• Communicate with people across all different development team ranks, disciplines, and skills.
• Works well with high-level technical guidance and quickly adapts to changing code bases and problems.
• Must be available to work on-site out of our Orlando Studio.

CONTRACT POSITION - 12 MONTHS

Compensation And Benefits

The hourly pay ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the hourly pay range for your specific location.

The hourly pay ranges represent in good faith what applicants can expect to be paid for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

HOURLY PAY RANGES
• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):

º $30 - $40
• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):

º $30 - $40
• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):

º $30 - $40
• Jersey City, NJ:

º $30 - $40
• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):

º $30 - $40

Candidates may also be eligible for applicable benefits
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via LinkedIn posted_at: 4 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE... basketball, and EA SPORTS UFC. After nearly 30 years of EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE... basketball, and EA SPORTS UFC.

After nearly 30 years of creating genre-defining, interactive football experiences with the world's biggest football entertainment platform, EA SPORTS FIFA, we are soon beginning a new era. EA SPORTS™ FC will become the future of football from EA SPORTS – as we aim to take global football experiences to new heights, on behalf of football fans everywhere. With more opportunity than ever to create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to a global community of fans, we invite you to join us and pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS!

The Online Software Engineer will help build networked gameplay experiences for our NHL franchise. We are looking for engineers who enjoy prototyping and planning, adding amazing new features to an existing and beloved game, and improving existing code. You will report to the Operations Development Director and Technical Lead to estimate, build projects and provide excellent results.

Your Responsibilities
• Develop technical solutions for online game features.
• Do full stack development working on both game client and backend services.
• Work with Designers, Artists, and Engineers from other domains.
• Work with a proprietary engine to develop stable, scalable, efficient, and shareable code.
• Iterate and design improvements to live systems and workflows.
• Work with 3rd party and internal software APIs.

Your Qualifications

Please note that you do not need to qualify for all requirements to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialog to be considered.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in C++ software development.
• 1+ years of experience with Client/Server, Peer-to-Peer, and multi-threaded architectures.
• 1+ years of experience with 3rd party APIs.
• 1+ years of experience working on Microsoft, and Sony game consoles.
• 1+ years of experience of real-time game networking.
• 1+ years of experience with Linux.
• 1+ years of experience with Visual Studio and knowledge of the debugging tools.
• 1+ years of experience with source control systems will come in handy.
• 1+ years of experience with scripting languages (Python, Lua) and interpreted languages (C#).
• Knowledge of modern database technologies.
• Knowledge of networking protocols.
• Knowledge of good software programming practices.

Us Compensation And Benefits

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location. EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES
• California (depending on location e.g., Los Angeles vs. Sacramento): $125,050 - $191,050
• New York (depending on location e.g., Manhattan vs. Buffalo): $113,900 - $191,050
• Jersey City, NJ: $113,900 - $191,050
• Colorado (depending on location e.g., Denver vs. Colorado Springs): $113,900 - $154,950
• Washington (depending on location e.g., Seattle vs. Spokane): $113,900 - $179,300
• Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby (following 1 year of service), medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity
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via ZipRecruiter schedule_type: Full-time
Description: The next 10 years serves as a moment in time unlike any other for the sport of soccer in the United States. With the sport thriving and U.S. Soccer’s Senior, Youth and Extended National Teams achieving success on and off the field, and the FIFA World Cup on U.S. soil in 2026, there has never been a better time to join the soccer movement... Position Description U.S. Soccer is seeking a Manager, Digital Media to join our newly developing Description:

The next 10 years serves as a moment in time unlike any other for the sport of soccer in the United States. With the sport thriving and U.S. Soccer’s Senior, Youth and Extended National Teams achieving success on and off the field, and the FIFA World Cup on U.S. soil in 2026, there has never been a better time to join the soccer movement...

Position Description

U.S. Soccer is seeking a Manager, Digital Media to join our newly developing Marketing Department and industry-leading team. The individual in this role will report into the Sr. Director, Digital and Content and work closely with content and social teams, internal product managers, and analytics leads in the development and execution of the U.S. Soccer’s digital content to drive audience engagement across dot com, app, and select third party platforms (such as YouTube, Twitch, emerging platforms, etc.). This person is expected to be a Content Management Systems expert responsible for web content and platform management in alignment with U.S. Soccer’s brand, marketing, and business goals. This individual will work closely with the digital director, internal product managers and external agencies to create cohesive, best-in-class digital destinations that generate continuous audience engagement and help build long-term relationships with fans and other soccer stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities
• Responsible for publishing and managing real-time updates on dot com, app, microsites, YouTube, etc. to ensure content is timely, relevant, and accurate
• Responsible for creating web pages from the ground up using modular design template, based on needs from across the organization (Commercial, Sport Development, Governance, etc.)
• Owns the business requirements for the content team and works closely with the product and engineering teams to translate them to technology needs, then assist setting priorities, roadmap, and timelines
• Leverages user journeys and behavior to create and evolve the information architecture on dot com such that users are finding relevant content, staying longer, and consistently coming back
• Documents and communicates broken experiences and other user-facing bugs to the product and engineering teams
• Coordinate with Event Marketing Director and Analytics to develop strategies to drive web traffic through paid search, paid social, email marketing, etc.
• Partners with Analytics and Insights to ensure data driven decision making
• Works with Partnership Marketing and Partnership Development to create new revenue opportunities and maximize value for new and existing partners across our owned digital channels and across third-party sites.
• Works closely with Event Marketing and Promotions as well as functional area leads to effectively utilize owned digital properties to generate awareness, familiarity and engagement with relevant soccer competitions, programs, and platforms.
Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in digital content marketing or content management
• Extensive enterprise Content Management System (CMS) experience (preferably Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal) with expertise in website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools
• Deep expertise in digital asset management, including 1+ years’ experience using a DAM tool
• Success in driving results through SEO, including understanding of relevant metadata, tags, and best practices used to improve search ranks
• Extensive experience with content organization, including website taxonomy, tag management tools (i.e., Google Tag Manager), and URL structures
• Has a grasp of basic front-end web development skills, including a basic understanding of HTML, Javascript, and iframes (to the extent that you can embed and modify snippets within a website)
• Strong analytical skills, including Google Analytics expertise, and the ability to distill strategic insights out of various data sources
• Strong leadership skills, experience working and leading cross-functional teams and developing positive, professional and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to think critically and problem solve and think on their feet in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent organizational, planning and project management skills
• Takes action and shows initiative; displays a can-do attitude
• Proficient with Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Able and willing to travel and work non-traditional hours including evenings, weekends & holidays as necessary

Preferred Qualifications
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Asana
• Comfortable building UX and UI prototypes using Figma, Invision, Sketch, or similar
• Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, etc.
• Experience with email marketing, customer journeys and CRM
• Experience with enterprise customer engagement software (Airship, Braze, etc)
• Experience working in digital for a sport and/or media property or platform
• Bilingual (Spanish preferred)

Working at U.S. Soccer is a unique opportunity. Employees who work at U.S. Soccer have the following attributes:
• Adopt a fan centric approach
• Embrace and see learning as a lifelong pursuit
• Possess a growth mindset—keeps an open mind and seeks new challenges
• Embraces and champions diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
• Practice self-assessment and self-reflection
• Open to criticism and does not make excuses
• Possess a tireless work ethic
• Wants to be part of a team that wins
• Has the ability to be firm but fair
• Communicate in a direct, open and honest manner
• Build relationships through genuine interpersonal skills

COVID-19 Vaccination
• U.S. Soccer has mandated the Covid-19 vaccine and is requiring all staff to be fully vaccinated at the start of employment
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via LinkedIn posted_at: 17 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Description U.S. Soccer Overview... We are the future of sport, and our mission is to make soccer the preeminent sport in the United States. We are one of the most inclusive sports in the world and take a fan and audience centric approach to engage our audiences around shared passions to unite the nation and drive the growth of the sport. We seek motivated, passionate, skilled people who can think, create, and work as part of a team. The next 10 Description

U.S. Soccer Overview...

We are the future of sport, and our mission is to make soccer the preeminent sport in the United States. We are one of the most inclusive sports in the world and take a fan and audience centric approach to engage our audiences around shared passions to unite the nation and drive the growth of the sport. We seek motivated, passionate, skilled people who can think, create, and work as part of a team.

The next 10 years serves as a moment in time unlike any other for the sport of soccer in the United States. With the sport thriving and U.S. Soccer’s Senior, Youth and Extended National Teams achieving success on and off the field, and the FIFA World Cup on U.S. soil in 2026, there has never been a better time to join the soccer movement!

Position Description

U.S. Soccer is looking for a seasoned digital and content leader to help define the future of digital for U.S. Soccer. This individual will oversee U.S. Soccer’s digital and content strategy, planning, packaging, and distribution of multi-format content across multiple digital touchpoints. They will take ownership of U.S. Soccer’s owned and operated platforms with a focus on creating industry leading digital destinations that fuel passion for soccer and drive relevance among U.S. Soccer’s next gen fans. With content and digital operating as an even bigger and more critical driver of future value and growth, this person will serve as a pathfinder within the marketing department to help drive the vision and direction for U.S. Soccer’s digital ecosystem, consistent with Federation goals.

Reporting into the VP of Marketing and working closely with multiple stakeholders across the organization, the Sr. Director Digital will partner with Creative, Communications, Technology and Media teams and create a 365-entertainment engine for U.S. Soccer. A natural storyteller, this individual will ensure U.S. Soccer’s narrative and that of our teams and players are relevant, resonant, and accessible to current and prospective fans. This person will be creative and curious, process driven, data led, and relationship oriented and has an ability to think and plan strategically in collaboration with others.

Primary Responsibilities
• Responsible for owning U.S. Soccer’s digital strategy and execution across owned and operated platforms including but not limited to dot com, U.S. Soccer app, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitch and more
• Leads strategy, planning, promotion, project execution and distribution of written, video, photo and audio content.
• Maps the consumer journey to align digital touchpoints with relevant and resonant content and experiences that further fan affinity and drive fan growth
• Responsible for refining and implementing planning tools and repeatable processes to optimize productivity and profitability
• Partners closely with brand and creative to bring U.S. Soccer and the U.S. National Team narratives to life
• Works in collaboration with Corporate Partnerships, Business Development and other key stakeholders to monetize existing content and maximize commercial value across our owned channels and third-party sites
• Collaborates with third party distribution platforms and influencers to extend narratives and reach beyond owned channels
• Works in concert with Analytics on learning plan, forecasting and tracking performance to ensure data and insights drive strategic development and decision making. Must have a clear vision and continual focus on measurement – what metrics matter and how will you use them?
• Coordinates with Event Marketing and Analytics to develop strategies to drive web, app and social traffic through paid search, paid social, email marketing, etc.
• Build, manage and mentor growing team of internal content, social, and digital experts
• Partners with the Digital Product team to ideate amazing fan experiences and ensure product roadmap aligns with commercial goals
• Champions cross-functional collaboration to create a culture of cooperation and teamwork across various U.S. Soccer functions and environments

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience with digital strategy and creation and proven ability to use content to further brand and business objectives
• Passion for creativity, storytelling, and elevating brands through digital media
• Exhibits a genuine desire and passion for growing soccer
• Innovative mindset that will push boundaries to deliver unique content and value for fans in a crowded market, while also adhering to brand standards and maintaining a consistent voice
• Hands on experience in management, ideation, production and/or execution of breakthrough, compelling, and creative content
• Strong understanding of digital media, including all types of content, social media, websites, etc. as well as the content distribution landscape and the advantages of different distribution strategies and platforms
• Leads with data to develop and optimize strategy. Proficient in web analytics tools such as Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics.
• Adept at finding signal and evaluating how content themes and distribution affect engagement (Google Analytics certification is a plus)
• Hands-on experience with enterprise content management systems (editing and publishing)
• Attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and ability to navigate complex projects on varying timelines
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Track record of leveraging culture, technology, and digital trends to drive relevance for brands or properties
• Experience building, managing and leading high performing teams
• When not traveling for work, able to work out of U.S. Soccer’s headquarters in Chicago, Illinois
• Able and willing to work non-traditional hours including weekends, evenings and holidays as needed

Desired Qualifications
• Bilingual Spanish
• Previous experience in sports and working with high profile athletes, coaches and teams
• Makes leadership and development of others a priority
• Embraces and sees learning as a lifelong pursuit. Possesses a growth mindset—keeps an open mind and seeks new challenges
• Communicate in a direct, open, and honest manner
• Open to constructive feedback and does not make excuses
• Possess a tireless work ethic
• Has the ability to be firm but fair
• Builds relationships through genuine interpersonal skills
• Proficient with Asana or other project management tools

COVID-19 Vaccination
• U.S. Soccer has mandated the Covid-19 vaccine and is requiring all staff to be fully vaccinated at the start of employment
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via LinkedIn posted_at: 4 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC... . Reporting to a Senior Development Director, a EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC... .

Reporting to a Senior Development Director, a Development Director (DD) manages a variety of disciplines including Artists, Designers, Software Engineers, QA, and other Production staff. DD's are the keepers of the project schedule and play an important role in successfully moving the Development team from one project phase to the next, while ensuring a focus on quality, collaboration and communication. You will partner with Producers to ensure that they are managing the project on time, to quality, and within budget.

Your Responsibilities
• Build and evolve effective teams; identify resourcing needs, provide challenges and development opportunities to ensure that all employees reach their potential
• You will build working relationships with the immediate team, and those outside of the immediate team that have an effect on project completion
• Provide line management to employees across departments and within a single project team
• You will communicate regularly with the project team and coordinate dependencies with external partners
• Participate in the hiring process to ensure candidates meet project requirements
• You will establish and assign tasks from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing a team at a project-level (e.g. franchise-wide level)
• You will proactively mitigate risk for assigned scope and quality
• Establish an overall project schedule based on the individual task estimates for production and determine the resource requirements to meet the task requirements
• Establish a project budget, determine task dependencies, and assign tasks to team resources

Your Qualifications
• Minimum of 8 years project management or team leadership experience, with 4+ years of management experience working in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
• University degree, bachelors, or equivalent professional experience
• Experience communicating across all levels and organizations
• Experience in project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
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via Paylocity schedule_type: Full-time
Description U.S. Soccer Overview... We are the future of sport, and our mission is to make soccer the preeminent sport in the United States. The next 10 years serves as a moment in time unlike any other for the sport of soccer in the United States. We are one of the most inclusive sports in the world and take a fan centric approach to engage our audiences around shared passions to unite the nation and drive the growth of the sport. We seek motivated, Description

U.S. Soccer Overview...

We are the future of sport, and our mission is to make soccer the preeminent sport in the United States. The next 10 years serves as a moment in time unlike any other for the sport of soccer in the United States. We are one of the most inclusive sports in the world and take a fan centric approach to engage our audiences around shared passions to unite the nation and drive the growth of the sport. We seek motivated, passionate, skilled people who can think, create, and work as part of a team. With the sport thriving and U.S. Soccer’s Senior, Youth and Extended National Teams achieving success on and off the field, and the FIFA World Cup on U.S. soil in 2026, there has never been a better time to join the soccer movement!

Position Description

We are looking for a creative and innovative digital maven to conceptualize and produce short form videos and motion graphics primarily for U.S. Soccer’s social media and digital properties. This individual will work closely with brand and content teams to design and generate media that is relevant and engaging for next gen soccer fans. This individual should be passionate about content and social media, excited to operate at the intersection of sport and culture, and a constant student of creative, the social media landscape and digital innovation. This individual will work within the marketing department and manage a variety of projects across departments and National Teams, with a focus on crafting versatile, “thumb stopping” content for key growth audiences.

Primary Responsibilities
• Conceptualize, produce, edit and deliver shortform videos, with a specific design and production emphasis on social media
• Develop, manage, and deliver high-quality and innovative video motion graphic design, focusing primarily on digital and social media channels
• Bring fans closer to our players and teams through on and off-field storytelling
• Update templates with video and graphic elements for live game coverage
• React to events in progress, producing video and developing motion graphics on the fly to capture and deliver social media reactions
• Create animations for U.S. Soccer’s external digital platform, and internal programs including Referees, Coaching, and High Performance
• Support other aspects of the production process in the Video Department at U.S. Soccer

Requirements

Requirements
• Strong proficiency in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere
• Experience in other Adobe applications; notably Photoshop and Illustrator
• Understanding of social media landscape, trends, and platform-specific best practices
• Experience producing social media-focused videos
• Experience designing motion graphics native to social media
• Strong creative mind with the ability to conceptualize and bring to life innovative motion graphics and social videos
• Passion for sports, entertainment, and/or growing the sport of soccer in the U.S.
• Impetus to push U.S. Soccer’s stylistic sensibility while staying within the boundaries of its brand guidelines and workflows
• Approaches project, data, and studio management with the same attention to detail as any of the elements mentioned above
• Experience in the field with digital cinema cameras, sound and lighting techniques
• Quick learner who can function well in the fast-paced environment mandated by sports
• Knowledge of 3D graphics and/or compositing programs preferred
• Bilingual Spanish proficiency preferred
• Passport required
• Full-time position, minimum 40-hour week with weekend work and travel required

Working at U.S. Soccer is a unique opportunity. Employees who work at U.S. Soccer have the following attributes:
• Adopts a fan centric approach
• Embraces and see learning as a lifelong pursuit
• Possesses a growth mindset—keeps an open mind and seeks new challenges
• Embraces and champions diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging
• Practices self-assessment and self-reflection
• Open to constructive feedback
• Agile and comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Wants to be part of a team that wins
• Communicates in a direct, open, and honest manner
• Builds relationships through genuine interpersonal skills

COVID-19 Vaccination
• U.S. Soccer has mandated the Covid-19 vaccine and is requiring all staff to be fully vaccinated at the start of employment
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The next 10 years serves as a moment in time unlike any other for the sport of soccer in the United States. With the sport thriving and U. S. Soccer's Senior, Youth and Extended National Teams achieving success on and off the field, and the FIFA World Cup on U... S. soil in 2026, there has never been a better time to join the soccer movement! Who We Are We are U.S. Soccer, and we are the future of sport in the United States. Our mission is to The next 10 years serves as a moment in time unlike any other for the sport of soccer in the United States. With the sport thriving and U.

S. Soccer's Senior, Youth and Extended National Teams achieving success on and off the field, and the FIFA World Cup on U...

S. soil in 2026, there has never been a better time to join the soccer movement!

Who We Are

We are U.S. Soccer, and we are the future of sport in the United States. Our mission is to make soccer the preeminent sport in the United States.

We are soccer stewards, uniting people through the global game and our collective goal to inspire, elevate communities and change lives in pursuit of a better future for soccer and our nation.

Our core principles are : We Aim High, We Win Together and We Champion DEIB; our staff embody the values of Integrity, Commitment, Teamwork and Respect;

and we're seeking candidates that share our beliefs. We embrace a healthy work life balance, diversity, technology and global connections to drive the growth of our sport and by supporting members, impacting athletes, and serving fans.

Position Description

With full autonomy and ownership of our commercial rights coming to the Federation at the beginning of 2023, U.S. Soccer is seeking a Manager, Partnership Insights to be a key contributor within our growing, industry-leading team and help drive the growth of soccer in the United States.

We are looking for a bright, collaborative Manager, Partnership Insights to join our team to support a group of strategic marketers that 1) Drive new business in the form of new sponsors / partners of U.

S. Soccer and 2) Create new platforms to help both existing and new partners connect directly with our fans. This person will help us uncover consumer insights and translate them to opportunities across the entire marketing organization so that U.

S. Soccer is seen as one of the most innovative, meaningful and fan-focused sports properties in the industry. You will support the Strategic Partnerships team and Partnership Development group by building out key business intelligence capabilities and platforms while leveraging consumers insights to demonstrate the performance value to existing partners and position U.

S. Soccer to prospect sponsors. This role will require a strategic mind that is able to development platforms for our sponsors and identify new streams of value using quantitative and qualitative data.

This is a new function, where you will be required to define, build, and champion scalable and nimble market research solutions, tools, and processes, while fielding high-priority research requests in parallel.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable with

ambiguity, have strong attention to detail, and be motivated by a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment.

Primary Responsibilities
• Support sponsorship sales and renewal processes through package valuations and, the creation of insights-based support materials demonstrating property performance, and the development of fan insights material utilizing syndicated research and / or custom studies
• Identify, source, and develop new partnerships on a national and global scale through research, benchmarking, and business intelligence across the market.
• Collaborate with Partnership Development, Partnership Marketing, Brand Marketing and Analytics & Insights teams to create compelling new business / renewal proposals and platforms using syndicated research and BI tools
• Interpret and develop new insights that will elevate our strategic partnerships narrative
• Assist in developing strategic plans for partnership inception and growth
• Brainstorm and develop new ideas and partner growth concepts relative to awareness, traffic driving, interactive and digital campaigns and hospitality
• Spearhead development and integration of research capabilities focused on understanding U.S. Soccer fans across Men's, Women's and Extended National Team;

both through the management of syndicated tools and collaborating cross-departmentally on new, relevant custom studies (e.

g. Sponsor Impact, Amplification, Fan Segmentation, etc.)
• Establish measurement methodologies to demonstrate partnership value to existing sponsors (include measurement reports showcasing value and metrics)
• Track, measure, and analyze U.S. Soccer sponsorship assets
• Create and deliver insights presentations to key commercial stakeholders
• Own relationship management of third-party data vendors and measurement agencies contributing to sponsorship measurement plan by managing day-to-day communication, planning for weekly meetings, and drafting briefs / support materials for project planning and high-quality, timely execution
• Serve as the strategic thought leader for insights across the commercial organization and partner with other departments to ensure transparency and insight-sharing
• Foster relationships in the market research industry to bring fresh ideas and thinking to development initiatives, and position U.

S. Soccer as a thought leader
• Develop standard processes that operationalize research workstreams internally
• Manage workflow and timelines of projects and communicate efficiently with internal teams
• Support team and partner knowledge of sports marketing and current trends / innovations through purposeful thought-leadership, while analyzing related partnership approaches from competitors and external industries to drive innovation.
• All other duties as assigned by the team

Requirements

Desired Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field of expertise
• 4+ years of experience in marketing research, consumer research, consulting or related field
• Extensive experience in sponsorship measurement and sales solutions development
• Hands-on experience planning and executing consumer research projects across qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Significant experience in gathering insights via panels and customer interviews is a must.

Comfortable and knowledgeable across different research applications (Brand Health Studies, Sponsorship Evaluations, Syndicated Research, etc.

and how to leverage multiple tools to create cohesive insights
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams and external agencies finding relevant insights to inform and optimize partnerships and campaigns
• Proven track record of leveraging data and insights to identify and construct potential partnerships
• You embrace a day-to-day flex between strategic thinking and hands-on execution
• Deep understanding of the ever-evolving sports marketing and media landscape.
• Experience working collaboratively across multiple departments
• Demonstrated strategic hustle and work ethic with diversity of thought.
• The ideal candidate will be comfortable with ambiguity, have strong attention to detail, and be motivated by a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
• Ability to handle multiple projects, tasks, and priorities.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative, team-player with a results-driven mindset.
• Strong problem-solving capabilities to address and resolve issues that face a growing company.
• Proven ability to set and deliver on clear, ambitious goals and to be accountable for results.

Student of the Game" mentality and desire for continual growth.
• A background in, and passion for, soccer, sports and / or entertainment is highly preferred.
• Pro-active and curious with a bias for action to maximize partner value
• Multi-Lingual a plus

Benefits
• Comprehensive compensation plan with generous benefits and time off offerings
• Vacation Time : Increases at your 5th and 10th year of employment. Starts at 2 weeks (10 days)
• Holidays : 16 paid holidays-including end of the year federation wide holiday break
• Sick Leave : Unlimited
• 401K : U.S. Soccer immediately contributes 3% of your salary whether or not you make your own contributions. If you choose to contribute, U.

S. Soccer will match up to 6% of your salary at 100%. Immediately vested.
• Medical : PPO and HSA plans
• U.S. soccer covers 100% of employee and dependent premiums for Dental and Vision

Culture & Perks
• Relaxed business casual dress code
• Nike discounts
• U.S. Soccer Store website discounts
• Ticket access to Chicago Fire and Red Stars regular season games
• Social Activities year-round (ex. Footgolf, Volunteer opportunities, Holiday parties and more)
• Free annual subscription to Headspace app
• Flexible work schedule including working from home options

COVID-19 Vaccination
• U.S. Soccer has mandated the Covid-19 vaccine and is requiring all staff to be fully vaccinated at the start of employment

Last updated : 2023-02-27
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