Description & Requirements The Role Reporting to a Lead Development Director, a
Development Director manages a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA, and other production staff. DD's are the keepers of the project schedule and play an important role in successfully moving the development team from one project phase to the next while ensuring a focus on quality, collaboration and communication. You will partner with producers to ensure that they are managing the project on time, to quality, and within budget, along with other DDs and Software Engineers.
This DD will join a team that oversees shared technologies across FC and our different game features.
Your Responsibilities - Own operational outcomes for your team, ensuring priorities, processes, and execution are aligned with product and business objectives.
- Establish an overall project schedule based on the individual task estimates for production and determine the resource requirements to meet the task requirements
- You will establish and assign tasks from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing a team at a project-level (e.g. Franchise-wide level)
- Build and evolve effective teams; identify resourcing needs, provide challenges and development opportunities to ensure that all employees reach their potential
- You will build working relationships with the immediate team, and those outside of the immediate team that have an effect on project completion
- Provide line management to employees across departments and within a single project team
- You will communicate regularly with the project team and coordinate dependencies with external partners
- Participate in the hiring process to ensure candidates meet project requirements
- You will proactively mitigate risk for assigned scope and quality
Your Qualifications - Minimum of 8 years of project management or team leadership experience, with 4+ years of management experience working in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
- Proven ability to build and improve operational processes, team effectiveness, and delivery outcomes.
- Experience managing, coaching, and developing team members.
- Experience communicating across all levels and organizations
- Experience in project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
- University degree, Bachelors, or equivalent professional experience
Pay Transparency - North AmericaCOMPENSATION AND BENEFITS The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).
PAY RANGES* British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$122,300 - $170,700 CAD
Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.
For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up 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 full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
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