Development Director - EA SPORTS™ UFC

The DD1 on UFC leads the planning and execution of complex cross-functional development efforts across multiple teams and disciplines. The role partners closely with Production, Design, Engineering, Quality Verification, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality player experiences on time and within budget. It drives project planning, operational excellence, resource planning, and delivery predictability while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.

• Establish and maintain an overall project plan by creating and maintaining resource capacity planning for the project, proactively mitigating production risks, and effectively managing internal and external dependencies.
• Drive effective processes within the team, ensuring workflows are well defined and understood by the whole team, and seek out and define opportunities for process improvements and innovation.
• Participate in risk identification, mitigation, and contingency planning against project priorities.
• Drive and execute change management initiatives within the team.
• Build and evolve effective teams; identify resourcing needs, participate in the hiring process to ensure candidates meet project requirements, and provide challenges and development opportunities to ensure that all employees reach their potential.
• Suggest and implement operational changes to enable effective and motivated teams.
• Model and exhibit conflict resolution behaviours following established best practices.
• Effectively communicate team's progress and status upward.
• Identify and lead collaborative efforts across the organisation, working with key stakeholders to affect change.

• 5+ years of project management experience with production lifecycles, processes, and project planning in a dynamic and collaborative team environment.
• Experience executing on project management methodologies, such as Waterfall and Agile.
• Experience in communicating and stakeholder management across all levels and organisations.
• Experience building complex systems with cross-discipline teams.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and excitement to help shape how emerging technologies, including AI, are adopted across the team.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Game Development, Business, 3D Arts, or a related field is preferred.

• 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 programmes.