Development Director

Job Description

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 soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

As a Development Director (DD) you will manage the development cadence and efficiency for 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 integral 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, while avoiding bottlenecks.

Your Responsibilities
• Build working relationships with the immediate team, and those outside of the immediate team that have an effect on project completion
• Identify development bottlenecks, determine root-cause (ie: resourcing needs, dependencies, etc.), and recommend/implement solutions when necessary
• Communicate regularly with the project team and coordinate dependencies with external partners
• Participate in the hiring process to ensure candidates meet project requirements
• Facilitate the creation and assignment of tasks, derived from defined project goals
• Proactively mitigate risk for assigned scope and quality
• Establish an overall project schedule based on the individual task estimates for production and assess the resource requirements to meet the task requirements

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

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). BASE SALARY RANGES
• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
• $115,100 - $161,200 CAD

In British Columbia, 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 equity.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rep540-3-146-176-191-42 in your application.