Electronic Arts

The Development Director (DD2) will report to the Senior Development Director, Delivery – Sims Quality Verification.

This role is hybrid/in-office located in our Redwood Shores, CA, with the broader team distributed across multiple global locations. 

We are building a Quality Verification organization that operates at scale, partners deeply with development teams, and continuously raises the quality bar for The Sims. Our mission is to promote creative velocity while protecting player trust through strong verification practices. You will ensure our people systems, leadership practices, and organizational health support that mission.

Responsibilities

• You will oversee people management execution for a multi-team Quality Verification organization, including performance management, career progression, promotion readiness, and organizational health.

• You will lead the performance management system across teams, including expectation setting, evaluation, documentation, and delivery on outcomes.

• You will partner with Project Managers, location leaders, and Senior Quality Designers (SQDs) to incorporate delivery impact, technical execution, and site-specific context into performance assessments and calibration discussions.

• You will resolve systemic performance, engagement, or leadership risks before they impact delivery.

• You will oversee staffing and workforce planning, including hiring strategy, onboarding models, and succession planning.

• You will forecast future capability and skill needs based on product roadmaps, delivery models, and evolving quality standards.

• You will ensure staffing decisions support both near-term delivery demands and long-term organizational sustainability.

• You and your partners will work with COE leaders and SQDs to define and roll out frameworks for evolving test practices, required skills, and proficiency expectations across teams and locations.

• You and your team will lead team-level people initiatives, including role clarity, career frameworks, leadership development, and onboarding standards.

• You will be a senior people leadership partner for Delivery, partnering with our other departments, ensuring alignment between organizational health and execution needs.

• You will provide clear people-related insights to senior leadership, including trends in performance, retention risk, and capability gaps.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience managing senior individual contributors in a technical, product development, QA, or Quality Verification environment.

• Demonstrated experience managing team-level people management, including performance calibration, promotion decisions, and leadership coaching.

• Experience designing or evolving people management systems, career frameworks, or organizational processes in a scaling organization.

• Experience leading teams across multiple geographic locations or time zones.

This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.