Development Director - EA SPORTS FC

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • $115,100 PA - $161,200 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

EA SPORTS FC is seeking a Development Director to lead diverse teams including artists, designers, software engineers, and QA. Reporting to a Lead Development Director, this role is crucial for managing project schedules, ensuring smooth transitions between development phases, and maintaining a focus on quality, collaboration, and communication. The Development Director will partner with producers to keep projects on time, within budget, and to high-quality standards. The role involves building and evolving effective teams, identifying resourcing needs, providing development opportunities, and managing employees across departments and project teams. Responsibilities include establishing and assigning tasks, achieving project deliverables, mitigating risks, and establishing project budgets and schedules. The role requires a minimum of 8 years of project management or team leadership experience, with at least 4 years in management within a dynamic team environment.
Must have:
  • Minimum 8 years project management/team leadership
  • 4+ years management experience
  • Experience communicating across all levels
  • Experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies
Good to have:
  • University degree or equivalent experience
  • Experience working in a dynamic and collaborative team environment

Job Details

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

Building on an incredible 30-year foundation, we’re redefining football with EA SPORTS FC - a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences, bringing a global community of football fans closer to The World's Game. Together, we’re taking the largest football club in the world to new heights – and this is just the beginning! With more opportunity than ever to innovate and create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to fans everywhere, we invite you to join us as we pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS FC, and welcome everyone to the club! 

The Role

Reporting to a Lead Development Director, a Development Director 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.

This team works onsite in our Vancouver office, Tuesday to Thursday every week. 

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 organization

  • Experience in project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile



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