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Locații: Kirkland, Washington, United States of America 
  • Locație: Kirkland
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  • Țară: United States of America


ID rol
207866
Tip muncitor
Regular Employee
Studio/Departament
EA Studios - Cliffhanger Games
Aranjament flexibil de lucru
Hybrid

Descriere și cerințe

Electronic Arts creează experiențe de divertisment de următorul nivel, care inspiră jucătorii și fanii din întreaga lume. Aici, toată lumea face parte din poveste. Face parte dintr-o comunitate care stabilește legături în întreaga lume. Un loc în care creativitatea prosperă, sunt încurajate noi perspective, iar ideile sunt importante. O echipă în care toată lumea face jocul posibil.

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

 

Finding great talent and supporting our studios to be the best place for people to do their best work is central to our philosophy. This is the principle behind our newly formed Seattle Studio focusing on open-world action-adventure games and pioneering next generation emergent storytelling. Join us to pursue your passion to craft unique, groundbreaking and inclusive games that empower players to generate incredible stories of heroic adventure.  

 

Become a foundational part of an ambitious, respectful and diverse team as we are looking for a Development Director responsible for driving collaborative game development strategy across multiple feature teams and delivering a successful experience.

Making games is unpredictable, and we're all in it together. Development Directors are our drivers, listening and working with all our experts to find a way through. Development Directors determine the “how” for the team and are responsible for ensuring the team is focused on the priorities identified by leadership while maintaining continuous alignment during development.

As a Development Director over the “Core Gameplay” pillar of the game, you will lead and support multiple cross disciplinary features while driving individual disciplines’ day to day yourself and through less senior Development Directors. You will collaborate with team members and leadership to create clear, unified, and properly prioritized goals and facilitate the execution of those goals. You will be responsible for ensuring a matrix of expectations and requirements are accounted for and met throughout development. Reporting to the Director of Product Development, your role places you at the helm of a largescale pillar of the game that encompasses the merging of Character and Combat development. You will work with a range of team members, such as Designers, Animators, Engineers and VFX Artists. Your work will be critical to bringing cohesion, visibility, and productivity to your assigned pillar of ownership.

Responsibilities:

  • Create, manage, and execute the project roadmap for assigned areas of responsibility ranging from gameplay to content, working closely with the Director of Product Development and rest of the development team to maintain high level alignment during project lifecycle
  • Work with disciplinary leadership to understand their goals, ensuring the project roadmap, granular feature strategies, and development plans accomplish their needs while adhering to larger project goals
  • Identify resource needs and project risks through continually evaluated scope/capacity planning and engage in identifying solutions 
  • In collaboration with the rest of the production team, take responsibility for production processes and health for assigned area of responsibility, continually ensuring that the team’s infrastructure and rituals support healthy, productive outputs
  • Manage one or more direct reports in area of assigned responsibility
  • Inspire fresh thinking and new ideas to ensure the team has the structure and processes that empowers them to innovate within our games and our development methodology.
  • Communicate the development plan to internal and external stakeholders.
  • You will also have a passion and empathy for solving people's problems and building happy, motivated teams.

 

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years working with game development teams in a Development Director or Senior Production role.
  • Experience managing diverse team across different time zones and locations
  • The ability to talk across all levels of anorganization 
  • Experience of agile project management processes
  • Experience obtaining insights and developing strategies through analytical metrics-driven analysis and design experimentation.
  • Experience using KPIs to set product success goals, monitoring of the product and informing necessary changes to the game.
  • Team player that brings excitement and enthusiasm to work each day.
  • Strong communication and writing skills, with experience preparing and presenting decks to various stakeholders.


About Electronic Arts
Ne mândrim cu un portofoliu vast de jocuri și experiențe, locații din întreaga lume și oportunități la toate nivelurile EA. Prețuim adaptabilitatea, reziliența, creativitatea și curiozitatea. De la conducerea care îți scoate la în evidență potențialul, până la crearea spațiului pentru învățare și experimentare, noi te abilităm să faci o treabă extraordinară și să urmărești oportunități de dezvoltare.

Adoptăm o abordare holistică cu programul nostru de beneficii, axându-ne pe starea de bine fizică, emoțională, financiară, profesională și comunitară pentru a susține o viață echilibrată, cu concedii plătite și concediu pentru noii părinți, plus jocuri gratuite și multe altele. Cultivăm medii în care echipele noastre pot întotdeauna să dea tot ce au mai bun în activitățile lor.

Electronic Arts este un angajator care oferă oportunități egale. Toate deciziile de angajare sunt luate fără a ține seama de rasă, culoare, origine națională, ascendență, sex, identitate sau exprimare de gen, orientare sexuală, vârstă, informații genetice, religie, dizabilități, stare medicală, sarcină, stare civilă, statut familial, statut de veteran sau orice altă caracteristică protejată prin lege. De asemenea, vom lua în considerare și candidații calificați pentru angajare cu cazier judiciar, în conformitate cu legislația aplicabilă. De asemenea, EA asigură locuri de muncă pentru persoanele cu dizabilități calificate, conform legislației aplicabile.