Lead Development Director - NHL

Job Description

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connecting millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. EA SPORTS NHL has revolutionized sports gaming for tens of millions of players around the world, pioneering award-winning and creative technology and experiences that connect players to the speed, skill, and creativity of the NHL.

The EA SPORTS NHL franchise is founded on passion and new ideas. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the team is composed of remarkable talent on a mission to accomplish on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play. If you're a creative pioneer with a passion for your craft, you will have the chance to turn a job into something you love.

The Role

We are searching for a Development Director II to manage the development of NHL! You are right for this role if you are passionate about solving difficult and fast-moving problems. You can effectively collaborate, communicate, and motivate often across business units and with peers or partners in other parts of the business. Your greatest strengths are building strong relationships, strategic thinking, and strong execution. You like to be challenged and thinking about the future excites you.

Responsibilities:
• Work with the project leadership team to establish the strategy to meet milestones and important deliverables
• Work with creative, development, and operations partners and stakeholders to ensure that quality, budgets and timelines are met.
• Support the growth and development of a thriving team culture based on openness, trust and collaboration
• Foster and support an inclusive and diverse team culture.
• Develop project indicators that track project quality, delivery, and predictability
• Be responsible for coaching, mentoring, and career development of your team. Lead project managers at all levels of the organization.
• Inspire fresh thinking and innovation to ensure the team has the best organizational structure, processes and practices that allow them to produce high quality work efficiently on time and on budget.
• Build an engaged group with an understanding of what inspires the individuals and team.
• Promote knowledge sharing, learning, reconciling conflicting goals, sharing resources amongst your team.
• Identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by a coordinated application of resources to minimize and manage risks.

Job Qualifications:
• Experience with Project Management (8+ years) and People Management (4+ years).
• Excellent knowledge of software development, tools, and processes.
• Proven track record of successful delivery of highly critical projects.
• Significant project and risk management experience.
• Experience managing a large internal project (60+ team members) and/or multiple projects including project auditing and steering.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and possesses strong emotional intelligence skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - able to work on complex problems where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, project management tools (e.g. Microsoft Project, Jira Hansoft).
• Bachelor's degree in any of the following areas: Computer Science, Game Production/Development, Business Management, etc.

Required Skills:
• Strong leadership skills: ability to challenge and influence a variety of stakeholders.
• Self-starter who builds trusted relationships, influences decisions and drives urgency on critical priorities
• Passionate, you care deeply about the creative process, your teams, and delivering the highest quality to our fans.
• Excellent change management skills, i.e., comfortable with ambiguity and constant change, yet able to set priorities and execute on commitments.
• Flexible and agile: ability to adapt quickly and be effective in new situations in a highly dynamic environment.
• Possess passion, energy, enthusiasm to drive results; highly action oriented.
• Effective communication skills, you are able to communicate through complex problems, and you builds trust easily and gets buy in from partners
• Effective communication skills; proven ability to influence outcomes across all levels of organization.
• Self-reflective- acknowledge own's experience and experiences of other.
• Strategic: able to think big picture and drive work accordingly

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwvxmp-3-139-82-23-42 in your application.