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Pogo has been the leader for online casual games since 1998. We are the best online casual games destination where players can enjoy titles across multiple genres including Solitaire, Mahjong, Match 3 and others. Our experienced global team delivers high-quality HTML5 games across the top casual genres, which support increasingly sophisticated metagames and social interactions. Pogo's fans and subscribers come to Pogo for fresh content, daily challenges, great events, new games and a live service that delivers!

About this Position

As a Development Manager (DM), reporting to the Operations Director, you'll drive planning and execution on a cross-functional development team to build and ship software in a live service environment. This is a leadership role that involves a high level of interaction with team members, peers, and product leadership. DM's focus on solving problems, and making things work (or work better). You will maintain and drive the project release schedule and support the platform and games for Pogo.

Responsibilities

●        Create project schedules that maximize feature quality and scope within resource, financial, and licensor constraints

●        Validate task length, discipline, and dependencies

●        Manage risk

●        Build a capable team that looks for opportunities to operate at their potential and take pride in their accomplishments

●        Keep the team informed of the schedule and changes

●        Train the team on best practices, processes, and standards

●        Meet commitments, hold team accountable

●        Monitor level of effort and provide feedback to individuals

●        Evaluate individual performance and potential of team members, provide appropriate recognition or constructive feedback

●        Form close working relationships with discipline leads, provide regular coaching

●        Resolve issues, balance priorities, and find creative solutions that achieve results

●        Identify, assign, and track development and organizational issues to completion

●        Report status at regular intervals, escalate urgent issues

●        Coordinate dependencies with external parties across the company

●        Participate in discussions with directors and studio leadership

Requirements

●        2+ years in a project management role within the software development industry

●        Solid foundation in project management (including Agile methodology)

●        Clear and precise communicator

●        Understanding of the software development life cycle

●        Experience working with JIRA, Hansoft, or similar tool

●        Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

●        2+ years in a team leadership role, strong people management skills

●        Sound decision-making based on analysis and judgement

●        Interest in learning and applying new concepts

●        High degree of initiative, self-starter, looks for opportunities to make improvements

●        Comfortable presenting and working with groups

●        Excellent documentation and writing ability

●        Bachelor's degree in a related field

Assets

●         Game development experience (especially full cycle experience on shipped titles)

●         Familiarity with EA’s mobile products

●         PMI, CSM, or LSS certifications

What’s in it for you? 

A creative environment, engaging work, excellent benefits and lots of great perks. Plus, the chance to shape the gaming habits and lifestyles of everyone you know – not just the gamers in your family, but all types of players. At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers.

If this opportunity sounds like a great fit for you, please submit your resume and portfolio and we will get back to you once we have reviewed it.