Electronic Arts

Development Director - Marketing Cinematic Technology

EA Experiences

Our EA Experiences group is dedicated to ensuring great experiences for our growing communities centered around our world-renowned brands, including fan-favorites like Apex, Battlefield, EA SPORTS FC, Madden NFL and The Sims, just to name a few. We're a multi-functional group, with world-class expertise building fandoms, driving interactive storytelling, and positioning our franchises at the center of the broader entertainment ecosystem. We inspire, connect, and engage fans through culturally relevant content, intentionally architected journeys across channels, and meaningful fan care. Our goal is to provide valuable, easy experiences that fans love – in our games, around our games, and through innovative adjacent experiences to grow and enrich how fans experience EA as we shape the future of entertainment.

Fan Growth

EA’s Fan Growth organization is responsible for elevating the experiences customers get from our entertainment and maximizing their fun. We’re obsessed with the experiences our fans have with EA. We value people who bring new ideas and perspectives to make Fan Growth a great place to be and be from. We celebrate inclusion. It’s just as important for us to create great experiences for our people as for our players. We’re looking for people who will show up excited to work and ready for fun.

Summary

The Development Director (DD) will oversee all aspects of people and project management in the Marketing Content Craft Tech team. In this role, you will coordinate a multidisciplinary team, including technical artists, tech ops specialists, and software engineers, to deliver and continuously improve tools and pipelines for game cinematic content creation. Your leadership will ensure the successful execution of projects that empower our marketing teams to produce world-class cinematic assets.

You will report to the Sr. Technology Lead in the Marketing Content Production Craft team. Benefits include health coverage with health care spending, retirement savings plan, gym access, free games, and plenty of additional perks!

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a diverse technical team focused on cinematic pipeline development and support.

• Oversee project planning, execution, and delivery for tools and workflows supporting marketing content creation.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across marketing, creative, engineering, and outsourcing partners to ensure formal execution of technical assessments per project, define requirements, set priorities, and balance support resources and capacity between on-demand requests and longer-term projects from the tech roadmap.

• Manage resource allocation, risk assessment, and mitigation strategies to meet project goals and deadlines.

• Monitor sprint and quarterly plan progress, comprehend and express technical issues, provide regular status reports including metrics and analytics, and communicate variances to relevant stakeholders.

• Drive process improvements and foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and growth within the team.

• Ensure clear communication, alignment, and documentation across all project phases and stakeholders.

• Champion EA’s values of diversity, equity, and inclusion within the team and broader organization.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience leading medium-sized technical teams to deliver complex projects on time and within scope.

• Experience managing projects related to digital content production pipelines, such as video games, films, or VFX.

• Experience with Agile methodologies and project management software (preferably Jira).

• Experience with AI tools for productivity and automation.

• Excellent communication skills for managing stakeholder relationships, setting clear expectations, and reporting production progress status and risks.

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
  • $119,600 - $167,300 CAD

In British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.