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Development Director - EA Sports FC
Key Details
- full time Jobs
- $122,300 - $170,700 per year
- 8+ years experience
Top Skills Required
Top Benefits
Description
General Information
Description & Requirements
EA SPORTS is one of the world's leading sports entertainment brands, known for top-selling video game franchises, award-winning interactive technology, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected gaming experiences that bring the emotion of sports to life through industry-leading titles, including Madden NFL, EA SPORTS FC, NHL, NBA LIVE, and UFC.
As one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, EA SPORTS FC is redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences, connecting a global community of fans to The World's Game through innovation and unrivaled authenticity. With more opportunity than ever to design, innovate and create new, immersive experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and connection to fans everywhere, we invite you to join our passionate and dynamic team as we pioneer the future of football fandom
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, along with other DDs and Software Engineers.
This DD will join a team that oversees shared technologies across FC and our different game features.
Your Responsibilities
- Own operational outcomes for your team, ensuring priorities, processes, and execution are aligned with product and business objectives.
- Establish an overall project schedule based on the individual task estimates for production and determine the resource requirements to meet the task 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)
- 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 proactively mitigate risk for assigned scope and quality
Your Qualifications
- Minimum of 8 years of project management or team leadership experience, with 4+ years of management experience working in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
- Proven ability to build and improve operational processes, team effectiveness, and delivery outcomes.
- Experience managing, coaching, and developing team members.
- Experience communicating across all levels and organizations
- Experience in project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
- University degree, Bachelors, or equivalent professional experience
Pay Transparency - North America
Job Details
- Job Type
- full time
- Salary Range
- $122,300 - $170,700
- Experience
- 8+ years
Required Skills
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