Associate Development Manager

Manages and coordinates a variety of technical disciplines while supporting cloud infrastructure and live gaming services within the EA SPORTS Technical Team. It acts as keeper of the project schedule, guiding engineers through each phase of the project lifecycle to ensure effective collaboration, communication, and delivery. Working closely with leadership and engineers, the role prioritises initiatives, manages schedules and dependencies, mitigates risks, and improves delivery predictability.

• Guide engineers through each phase of the project lifecycle, ensuring effective collaboration, communication, and delivery.
• Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals, achieving project deliverables through project-level team management.
• Collaborate with cross-team disciplines to manage delivery of dependencies.
• Mitigate risk for assigned scope.
• Partner with production and tech to manage scope and quality.
• Use Jira to establish engagement processes, ensuring workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained in expectations.
• Establish an overall project schedule based on individual task estimates for production.
• Determine resource requirements, establish a project budget, and assign tasks to team resources to meet task requirements.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritisation, and make trade-offs.
• Ensure project meets specifications through regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.

• 1+ years of Project Management experience with production lifecycles, processes and project planning.
• Experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment.
• Experience working with large, cross-functional teams, with demonstrated skills in facilitation, stakeholder alignment, mediation, and conflict resolution.
• University degree, bachelor's or equivalent professional experience.

• Experience in different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile is an asset.

• Vacation: 3 weeks per year to start.
• Sick time: 10 days per year.
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave).
• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.