Development Manager - Vancouver, Canada - Electronic Arts
Description
EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment - connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.
Building on an incredible 30 year foundation, we're redefining football with EA SPORTS FC - a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences, bringing a global community of football fans closer to The World's Game.
The Role
Reporting to a Development Director, a Development Manager (DM) ensures the delivery of a game feature is on time and within budget.
Your Responsibilities
- Manage a development team which generally consists of Software Engineers.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritization, make tradeoffs, balance the needs versus technical constraints, and promote initial partner deployments.
- Host daily standup meetings in the PST time zone and ensure the team is following procedure for work prioritization.
- Focus on the immediate team and identify team issues, and suggest solutions related to execution goals. Identify taskrelated processes to improve efficiency.
- Ensure each project setup meets the specifications with Studio with regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.
- Establish engagement processes to ensure all workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained in expectations.
- You will manage professional development plans and conduct regular oneonones with direct reports.
Your Qualifications
- 3+ years of Project Management or Project Lead Experience with production lifecycles, processes and project planning.
- Bachelor's degree in any number of related fields including Computer Science, Game Development, Business, 3D Arts.
- You have experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment (Jira, Slack Automations, Excel, Google Sheet Automations, and Miro) is preferred but not necessary.
- You have experience working with expansive teams, mediation and conflict resolution.
- Comfortable public speaking, talking through solutions and distilling information.
- You have experience with formal communications, publishing reports or partner facing documentation is highly recommended.
- BC COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
- The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.
- BASE SALARY RANGES
- British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs.
Victoria):
o $77,600 - $130,500 CAN Annually
- Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid topup to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular fulltime employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.
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