Product Counsel

18 May 2024

Vacancy expired!

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in interactive entertainment. We develop and deliver games, content and online services across platforms. We have a broad portfolio of brands that span the most popular genres.

We exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow our employees to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers.

We are looking for a passionate, collaborative, and motivated product counsel to join our team. You will report to EA’s Senior Product Counsel. We are flexible as to which EA office you work from and will consider partial remote work.

You will be a member of the product counsel team, serving as the front-line legal support across EA’s game products. The ideal candidate is an effective and practical attorney who understands how EA’s games work with a good understanding of the product development and live service cycle and the legal issues associated with EA’s products. This is a great opportunity for a team-oriented attorney, who is interested in providing hands-on support to EA’s game development and marketing teams. A successful candidate is enthusiastic about EA’s products and has the skills and demeanor to integrate into the game development teams across numerous products building relationships within the studios to ensure integrated product legal support.

Join us in driving the next revolution in games.

Role Summary

You will work alongside a team of attorneys, legal professionals, and business partners to provide legal support to the studios, game development teams, and product marketing teams. Our product counsel team builds collaborative relationships across the product development teams and provides hands-on legal support throughout the product life-cycle. You will be on the cutting edge of product development for electronic games including supporting the development and launch of state-of-the-art product features and marketing campaigns. You will use your knowledge of consumer protection, IP, privacy, e-commerce, and commercial transactional laws and regulations to provide practical business facing advice to shape EA’s products.

Role Responsibility Details

  • Engage early and often with EA’s studio, product development, and marketing teams.
  • Cultivate collaborative partnerships across EA’s studio, product development, product marketing teams and EA’s legal teams. Success in this position relies heavily on collaborating with numerous teams and developing trust across those teams.
  • Bring a deep working knowledge of U.S. and international laws and regulations related to game design, monetization, advertising, in-game content, and technology for console, PC, cloud gaming, mobile games, and subscription-based business models.
  • Provide practical, clear and easy to understand legal advice to the business often explaining complex legal advice in business-friendly terms.
  • Conduct rights clearance and risk assessment for publishing our games on new platforms and business models.
  • Partner with members of EA’s legal team to develop policies and guidance supporting EA’s game development.

General Qualifications

  • J.D. and 6+ years’ relevant experience including 4+ years of experience working as in-house product counsel at a technology or entertainment company.
  • Experience counseling product development or entertainment content creation teams working closely with the production teams, marketing teams, engineering teams, and creative teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently on diverse matters, successfully lead cross-functional projects, and comfortable finding creative and practical solutions.
  • Working knowledge of intellectual property, privacy, marketing, and commercial law.
  • Collaborative by nature and able to build partnerships across diverse teams.
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a diverse and complex workload working on legal matters where there may be ambiguity and a lack of legal precedent.
  • Good listener with excellent verbal and written communication skills, impeccable integrity, good judgment, strong analytical skills, and a sense of humor.
  • Available to travel as necessary to support the needs of the product teams.

We love to celebrate our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match, of course, free video games and more!

Electronic Arts is an innovative tech company that creates incredible experiences for millions of players around the world. But what matters most is our people who inspire us, and the world, to play. As we bring new forms of entertainment to people around the world, we need innovative, collaborative, diverse and adaptable people to keep making Electronic Arts better.

  • ID: #41125540
  • State: Texas Austin 73301 Austin USA
  • City: Austin
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Full-time
  • Showed: 2022-05-18
  • Deadline: 2022-06-10
  • Category: Art/media/design