Electronic Arts

Technical Development Manager (Tiburon Core Technology)

Electronic Arts is the leading interactive entertainment company, powered by innovative technology. We create incredible experiences for millions of players around the world. But what matters most is our people who inspire us, and the world, to play. As we bring new forms of entertainment to people around the world, we need creative, collaborative, diverse and adaptable people to keep making Electronic Arts better.

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.

Tiburon Core Technology helps EA SPORTS push visual boundaries and experiences for our players across our American Football titles. We are a passionate and diverse group that delivers technical solutions to enhance all products across the portfolio and challenges team members to bring their unique perspectives and expertise to work every day.

We are looking for a Technical Development Manager (DM) to support a subset of this dynamic technical team. 

Role Overview: 

At EA, DMs coordinate a variety of disciplines including designers, software engineers, artists, QA and other production staff. DMs are the keepers of the project schedule, facilitating the development team’s movement from one project phase to the next while promoting effective collaboration and communication. 

You will report to the Supervising Director of Technical Operations and partner with Producers and Directors to ensure that the work within our engine integration and special initiatives team pod is managed on time, to quality, and within budget.

Role Responsibilities:

Team Building and Management

• You will people manage technical pod team members (software engineers), identifying resourcing needs and providing challenges and opportunities to ensure that all employees reach their potential, in partnership with Technical Directors

• You will foster working relationships within and beyond your assigned pod, in close partnership with Technical Directors, to help bring projects to successful completion

• You will participate in the hiring process for new candidates

Execution

• You will institute and assign task goals from defined project goals; you will achieve project deliverables through managing team at a project level (e.g. Franchise-wide level)

• You will mitigate risk for assigned scope in partnership with our Technical Directors

• You will monitor capacity (resource balance) and partner with production to manage scope and quality

• You will communicate with project teams and coordinate requirements with external partners

Project Management

• You will orchestrate sprint planning and retrospectives, promoting best practices for task tracking

• You will build overall project schedules (roadmaps) based on individual task estimates for production and communicate progress to our partners across projects

• You will maintain and own team projects and backlogs

• You will establish a project budget, determine tasks and their resource requirements, and assign tasks to team resources

Role Requirements:

• 3+ years project management or team leadership experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience within a technical domain

• Knowledge of different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile in a software development setting

• Familiarity with using JIRA/JaaS as project management tool