Executive Producer, Head of Production (Apex Legends)

Respawn Entertainment; West Chatsworth (CA); Hybrid; USD 249,000 - 362,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision

401(k)

Job summary

Electronic Arts in California is seeking an Executive Producer, Head of Production to lead live-service operations for Apex Legends. You will own end-to-end seasonal content delivery, drive production standards, and scale global teams across EA publishing partners.

You will manage a world-class, multi-location production team, partnering with creative, technical and publishing leaders to deliver seamless, player-first experiences to millions of fans worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience leading live operations for large-scale, multi-platform FPS games.
• Proven ability to manage multi-million dollar budgets and distributed teams.
• Strong Agile practices and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead live service production across PC, console, and emerging platforms.
• Forecast milestones, budget, and executive greenlight processes.
• Improve workflows, KPIs, release stability, and cross-functional handoffs.
• Remove bottlenecks with QA, UX, Eng, Outsourcing, and Publishing partners.
• Mentor senior production leaders across distributed studios.

Skills

AAA Live Ops

Distributed leadership

Agile

Jira

Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Executive Producer, Head of Production Apex Legends

As Executive Producer, and Head of Production you will lead the Live Service operations for Apex Legends one of the world's most popular battle royale games, engaging tens of millions of players globally across PC, console, and mobile platforms.

Based hybrid/on-site in Chatsworth, CA or Vancouver Canada, you will oversee full-scale game production, drive our seasonal content roadmap, and manage live operations. Reporting to the Franchise GM and partnering with the Apex Leadership team, you will unify development strategy, ensure executional excellence, and scale delivery across our global teams and EA publishing partners.

Why this role Matters

As the Executive Producer Head of Production, you will lead the development operations of the live service for Apex Legends. You will own the end-to-end execution of our seasonal content roadmap, shaping the production systems, standards, and global team structures that will define the next chapter of this iconic franchise.

In this role, you will lead a world-class, multi-location production team and partner with creative, technical, and publishing leaders to deliver seamless, player-first live experiences to millions of fans around the world

Responsibilities

• Lead live service production and partner with heads of Creative and Technology to drive the multiyear roadmap, managing seasonal content delivery, live events, and long-term feature development across PC, console, and emerging platforms
• Drive operational excellence and manage the business rhythm of the franchise, including milestone forecasting, resource allocation, budget management, and the executive greenlight process
• Optimize development workflows, design and scale pipelines, establish clear KPIs, and continuously improve team development velocity, release stability, and cross-functional handoffs
• Champion cross-functional alignment and partner with QA, User Experience, Engineering, Outsourcing, and Publishing partners to remove development bottlenecks and ensure highly coordinated global execution
• Grow and mentor teams and cultivate a collaborative, inclusive, and sustainable team culture. Directly manage and support the career development of senior production leaders across our distributed studios

Qualifications

• Extensive AAA Live Operations Experience with proven experience leading development and post-launch operations for large-scale, multi-platform FPS live service games (10+ years experience)
• Progressive strategic production leadership experience designing development pipelines, managing multi-million dollar budgets, and leading distributed, cross-functional teams through complex release cycles
• Organizational scale success in building structure, managing resource planning, and driving operational alignment for large-scale game development teams (100+ members)
• Agile Expertise with a mastery of iterative development methodologies, feature scoping, risk mitigation strategies, and industry-standard tracking tools (e.g., Jira and Confluence)
• Influence & Stakeholder Management with a track record of driving consensus, building trust, and presenting plans clearly to senior executives and publishing partners

Pay Transparency - North America

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

PAY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$225,500 - $311,100 CAD*
• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) *$249,200 - $361,600 USD*

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

In the US, we 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, 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 other incentive programs.

For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including 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 you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.