Electronic Arts

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. The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe, delivering fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime. This team works onsite Tuesday to Thursday every week. This is a 10-month maternity leave cover contract. 

The Role

Reporting to the 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.

Your Responsibilities

●    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 establish and assign tasks from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing a team at a project-level (e.g. Franchise-wide level)

●    You will 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 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