Electronic Arts

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Our Motive is to develop innovative action games set in iconic worlds where every player feels like the hero. Let's say that again—iconic worlds where every player feels like the hero.

Our passion has taken us from imagining dogfighter pilots in Star Wars™: Squadrons to re-creating Isaac Clarke onboard the Ishimura in Dead Space™. Currently, we're working on two exciting projects, an original Iron Man™ action-adventure game and what's coming next for Battlefield™.

We believe in sharing our passion with our community and each other, fostering an inclusive culture, and nurturing a growth mindset. Although our approach may seem simple, it leads us to create the best work of our careers, bringing unique and immersive experiences to our players.

Motive is looking for a Vertical Director of Production .

As Production Directors our aim is to effectively lead, coordinate and oversee the development and successful completion of our game delivering results on time, within budget and to the highest quality throughout production. This will be done by effectively coordinating resources, schedules and team efforts, iterating and adjusting to serve the product and creative needs, ensuring that we meet stakeholders expectations, reaching consensus on ambitious yet achievable goals, and maintaining open and clear communications. We thrive to foster collaboration, encourage innovation, and champion a culture of excellence. We trust our teams to work autonomously by providing them the right framework and level of responsibility so they can exercise ownership and accountability. We believe in our teams to remain creative and to keep learning as well as ensuring everyone has opportunities for personal growth.

Responsibilities

As a Vertical Director of Production, you are responsible for the timely and quality delivery of a large area of the game in line with the project vision and constraints. As such you need to ensure that your vertical PMs and DPs as well as the vertical stakeholders have the direction and support they need to ensure their teams commit and deliver as expected and in healthy conditions within our project Production Framework.

Communicate direction and lead the vision:

• you communicate both vision and direction so all teams are clear on the product we are building
• you provide guidance and instructions for the team to understand the purpose of achieving key results and what's expected for each
• you constantly reiterate the goals based on concept and design to the team to keep them focused on the direction
• you seek constant alignment between the different stakeholders, support collaboration between teams and ensure that intentions, progress and priorities are clear
• you drive ownership, empowerment and buy-in on direction, you create desire, understanding and trust to follow direction
• you ensure each feature need has goals and measurable results so that you can determine the impact of the feature, its priority, identify analytic needs, and monitor results
• you analyze results and realign expectations when they are derailing from initial intentions               

Create high performing team environment:

• you ensure that topics, context and guidelines discussed with the core reactor, vertical core or vertical production direction are cascaded to the teams as soon as possible after they are discussed
• you partner closely with your vertical team leadership to ensure that the teams commit to ambitious yet achievable goals
• you monitor the vertical team health, flight risks, performance management needs and take action to positively impact trends
• you support your vertical PMs/DPs and your direct reports in their development goals to help them level up
• you lead by example and mentor/coach your PMs/DPs so they improve their project management, communication and leadership skills and learn how to deal with conflict 
• you ensure that your teams PMs/DPs deliver on their own PMs/DPs goals as expected and if required, plan an iteration or review with them before results are presented back
• you work with the vertical leadership to ensure cover plans are organized for yourself, your vertical team, or your stakeholders whenever PTOs are planned 
• you ensure information flows effectively and regularly to ensure cross-team visibility & alignment within your vertical but also with other teams, internal and external partners           

Project & Resource management:

• you partner closely with the vertical core team to ensure that the team goals are clear and achievable and ensure that expectations are clearly translated in the release commitments
• you work with the vertical teams and vertical leadership to iterate on the goals and adapt them to the team reality in order to achieve ambitious yet attainable results
• you review and refine the team backlog initiatives regularly and ensure they are visible, understandable, stack ranked and that priorities are clear
• you scope the game together with the directors and PMs/DPs to keep it on time, on budget and high quality
• you work with your teams PMs/DPs and vertical leadership team to ensure that project goals are clearly cascaded and operationalised
• you work with your team PMs/DPs to ensure that your teams data is accurate and regularly updated to reflect the team progress and allow us to have reliable projections and to provide an overview of the status for each sprint and each review 
• you strategically plan, collate and synthetize your teams needs (OS, Codev, Staffing, Tech) and maintain a prioritized list 
• you hold regular reviews with the teams PMs/DPs to validate that processes, KPIs and results are optimal and coach the PMs/DPs and teams as required 

Quality management:

• you drive product reviews and get directors feedback to ensure criteria of acceptance are met and that iteration needs are surfaced, assessed, tracked and planned
• you proactively seek content feedback and listen to concerns raised by the team
• you are accountable to include all required discipline owners in the goals definition and results review
• you work with the PMs/DPs and leads to ensure that bugs have the appropriate severity and that resolution is planned for adequately
• together with stakeholders, you help identify the UXR metrics and KPIs that will be required to measure quality progress and drive iteration
• you emphasize quality results, not just task completion and ensure that the planning includes time for validation, quality reviews, addressing major issues reporting by QV, writing test plans, planning for automation and telemetry and stabilizing results in the build if required
• you help establish quality goals and metrics, ensure they are documented, clearly reflected in the teams backlog and execute against the goals and metrics
• you work with the team to ensure there are clear definitions for each quality level
• you mentor PMs/DPs on quality processes, targets, metrics 

• Risk and change management:
   you ensure that concerns and risks raised by the teams are transparently communicated to the core reactor to provide visibility and get alignment and establish mitigation plans together with the teams PMs/DPs and POs and/or relevant stakeholders
• you ensure you hold regular reviews with the teams stakeholders and their PMs/DPs to have visibility on their progress and possible hurdles
• you collate and synthetize your teams risks and mitigation plans for each sprint and each review 
• you make sure that you promote continuous improvement and challenge the team to inspect and adapt their processes
• you work with your peers in the PMs/DPs team to review and optimize our processes, templates and deliver your commitments

Qualifications

• You have 8+ years Project Management and 3+ years People Management experience
• You have a track record of delivery of large critical software projects (30+ team members, multi-million dollar budgets)
• You have excellent knowledge of software development processes, with significant project and risk management experience.
• You are an inclusive and development-orientated people manager, who has managed both people within your area of expertise, and those who sit within other job families.

Leadership skills: 

• You have the ability to excite and drive a multi-disciplinary team to deliver innovation through collaboration.
• You have the ability to drive outcomes across all levels of an organization, build partnerships, and solve critical priorities.
• You have the ability to set clear objectives, and monitor execution towards those objectives.