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, FIFA soccer, NHL hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.
At the heart of EA SPORTS is the FIFA franchise.EA SPORTS FIFA is the world's #1 best-selling video game with over 200M engaged players across multiple platforms, including console, PC, and mobile.
Innovation, passion, and teamwork is at the heart of everything we do.
With studios in Vancouver, Bucharest, and Cologne, we are looking for the brightest talent so we can continue to create experiences that connect with millions of hearts and minds the world over.The RoleReporting to a Senior 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.Your ResponsibilitiesBuild and evolve effective teams; identify resourcing needs, provide challenges and development opportunities to ensure that all employees reach their potential.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.Communicate regularly with the project team and coordinate dependencies with external partners.Establish and assign tasks from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing a team at a project-level (e.g., Franchise-wide level).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 QualificationsMinimum 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.
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