Esports
Assistant Producer - Football Data Automation
Mid Level
Germanyhybrid
Full time
Digital, Product & TechFootballData & CRM SystemsProduct ManagementEngineering & Development
Job description
About the Role
Sits within the EA SPORTS FC Data Collection & Licensing team and focuses on ensuring football data accuracy through automation solutions and data pipelines. The postholder collaborates with international teams to deliver authentic gaming experiences, creating and validating data shipped to the FC game. The role reports to the Development Director and operates in a hybrid model with three days per week onsite in Cologne.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate football data production for assigned leagues, ensuring accurate, standards-compliant data and on-time delivery.
- Design and prototype data-driven modelling solutions and local dashboards (Streamlit, Power BI) to automate, validate, and scale player, team and league data.
- Manage delivery of assigned workstreams, track milestones, and provide clear status updates to internal teams and partners.
- Apply SQL and Python technical skills when delivering data, prototyping models and solutions, and performing testing.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Analytics, Game Teams and external partners to manage dependencies and validate data accuracy.
- Support process optimisation by capturing improvement opportunities, piloting changes to rituals, tools and dashboards, measuring impact, and helping scale what works.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in data science, advanced analytics, football data editing, or data operations, with exposure to project management or product coordination.
- Hands-on technical experience with SQL for database analysis, Python for data modelling, prototyping and analysis, and Power BI (or similar) for dashboard creation.
- Domain football knowledge and an understanding of global football leagues, teams and player performance, combined with familiarity with football event data structures.
- Experience processing and modelling real-world football event data and sports feeds.
- Demonstrated strength in planning, scheduling and execution, supported by clear reporting.
- Excellent collaboration and partner communication skills, with effectiveness at unblocking teams and driving accountability across time zones.
- Familiarity with EA SPORTS FC game modes.
- Proficiency in English.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with live service environments.
- Additional languages are welcome.
Workplace
- Hybrid model, with three days per week onsite in Cologne.
The Application Process
Candidates are asked to apply with a cover letter and CV.
- Submit a cover letter and CV in English in PDF format.
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