Electronic Arts

Studio: Create APAC
 EA Create APAC is a highly-engaged content creation team within EA Worldwide Studios. We are creatively driven and focused on high end visual production across multiple genres and art styles. Working with our game team partners around the world, we share a unified passion for creating amazing experiences and industry leading visuals.  We seek pioneers who cut new paths and conquer challenges in our fast growing future.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating and validating project schedules that meet the requirements of the game team; discuss and create agreement on project resource requirements, workflow and milestones; establish WGLL (What Good Is), identify partners for regular communications and check-ins;

• To minimize bottlenecks while ensuring the production pipeline matches with the needs of the game studios;

• Identify project risks through regular monitoring of production status, team morale and communication channels; call out project risks and create mitigation plans before they become an issue;

• Managing through change request process by communicating to project partners the nature of the change request, the cost of changes and the prioritization of the changes;

• Provide leadership and mentorship to team members through regular 1:1s and weekly team meetings;

• Find and address attrition risks;

• Reward and recognize top performers through quarterly team performance review, promotions and salary adjustments while identifying and assisting low performers in improving their capabilities;

• Discuss and help provide a career path for team members, identify training courses and seek opportunities to assign team members challenging assignments to improve their skills;

Qualifications 

• 5+ years of game development experience, at least 1–2 years of hands on project management experience;

• Excellent process mindset and documentation ability, previous process reengineering experience an added advantage;

• Solid Project Management software experience, including but not excluding to: JIR,Shotgun, SharePoint, Visio or other visualization and diagramming tools;

• Fluent in English and Mandarin;

• Vendor management experience in distributed development is a big plus;