Electronic Arts

 Fusion is one of several organizations within EA Studios that provides solutions to deliver games to millions of players around the world. With touchpoints across all titles and platforms, we work collaboratively to deliver direct impact to our players worldwide. 

The Tools and Technology Team within Fusion is looking for accomplished people to help us fulfill our mission of providing creative tools and workflows that allow EA to lead the industry in content quality. Our group strives to build an ecosystem of modular components that are efficient, adjustable to trends, and allow for quick iteration of any artistic idea into reality. We partner with a global group of extraordinary creatives fueled by imagination and a unified passion for creating amazing content and experiences.

The Challenge Ahead:

The Development Director (DD) role oversees all aspects of people leadership and project management within their team. You will be experienced in developing people and have proven experience delivering high-quality products to customers. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on the Characters Tools team to deliver innovative technologies that deliver exceptional character likenesses to our game team partners.  You will report to the Project Development Director.

Day to day, you will…

• Provide project management leadership to specific workstreams within the Characters domain.
• Coach and develop the careers of your reports.
• Determine task dependencies and partner with external teams/resources where needed.
• Identify and mitigate team and project risks, focusing on removing blockers for the team.
• Monitor sprint and roadmap progress and work with the Product Managers to communicate variances to important partners.
• Partner with the other team DDs to create a creative, collaborative, and inclusive environment, promoting a culture of learning and development for individuals on the team.

You are/you have…

• 5+ years project management experience of technical projects and 3+ years team development experience.
• University degree Bachelors or equivalent professional experience.
• 1+ years of experience using Agile project management methodology.

Bonus if you have…

• Experience career managing technical people such as Engineers and Technical Artists
• Experience within a tools team and/or a games company
• Experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Asana 
• Experience surfacing analytics and metrics