Electronic Arts

This role requires you to work onsite from Bogotá, Colombia (Salitre area)

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! 

We are looking for an experienced people leader who is passionate about driving software and game quality to lead our EA Sports FC QVS team based in Bogota.

You will provide operational leadership for the FC Quality, Verification & Standards (QVS) group, made up of Management, Quality Design & Quality Testing. This multi-discipline department is a component of the development and live services for our EA Sports FC franchise. You will report to the Senior Development Director for EA Sports FC QV.

You are right for this role if you are passionate about solving difficult problems. You can collaborate, often across departments and with peers or partners in other parts of the business. Your greatest strengths are building relationships,, execution & building teams. You have deep knowledge of the local market and the ability to connect with candidates and have a wide professional network. You like to be challenged and thinking about the future excites you.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the full operational aspects of Quality Verification planning in all development stages from pre-pro, production, launch, and live

• Own communication with project leaders and development partners

• Advocate for location-based needs in partnership with the site director and project PO’s, setting expectations and driving your teams to meet commitments

• Identify  new ways of improving efficiency and increasing predictability

• Use data to contribute to product quality and project efficiency; use project dashboards and reports to drive decision-making

• Effective change management, challenge is welcomed as an opportunity to drive strategic, business impacting

• Mentor and support other leaders across disciplines; build and mentor teams

• Identify resourcing needs, guide and develop changes to talent, skills and practices to accomplish operational and strategic goals

• Monitor and evolve talent skill mix, using training and active recruitment plans and strategies

• Promote a culture of diversity and inclusion and maintain an environment that encourages creativity and collaboration

Qualifications:

• You are passionate about managing creative teams. 

• You have 8+ years of project management or team leadership experience.

• 3+ years of experience as a people manager including managing people managers

• 3+ years of experience leading and growing large multi-discipline teams. 

• You are comfortable working in distributed teams; communicating in English across all levels of an organization; you always know the status of your project and can effectively share that information with any audience. 

EA Bogota Benefits

● Health Benefits - Medical insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, global fitness benefit ($500 USD per year), and mental wellbeing plan.

● Professional Development - Training and development programs, opportunities for career advancement and tuition reimbursement

● Work-Life Balance - 15 vacation days, paid holiday closure and paid sick leave

● Meaningful Work - Opportunity to directly contribute to the development of EA titles

● Additional Perks - Meal card ($400,000 COP per month), game credits and console reimbursement program

● Work Environment - New office space in the heart of Salitre, inclusive work culture and supportive team environment
…and more!