Development Director - EA Sports FC

The Development Director manages a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA, and other production staff, reporting to a Lead Development Director. The role acts as keeper of the project schedule and is responsible for moving the development team from one project phase to the next while ensuring a focus on quality, collaboration, and communication. The postholder partners with producers to ensure projects are delivered on time, to quality, and within budget, alongside other Development Directors and Software Engineers.

• Own operational outcomes for the team, ensuring priorities, processes, and execution are aligned with product and business objectives.
• Establish an overall project schedule based on individual task estimates for production and determine the resource requirements needed to meet task requirements.
• Establish and assign tasks from defined project goals, achieving project deliverables through managing a team at a project level, such as franchise-wide level.
• Build and evolve effective teams, identifying resourcing needs and providing challenges and development opportunities so that all employees reach their potential.
• Build working relationships with the immediate team and with those outside it who have an effect on project completion.
• Provide line management to employees across departments and within a single project team.
• Communicate regularly with the project team and coordinate dependencies with external partners.
• Participate in the hiring process to ensure candidates meet project requirements.
• Proactively mitigate risk for assigned scope and quality.

• 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 organisations.
• Experience in project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
• University degree, Bachelors, or equivalent professional experience.

• Vacation of 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 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.

EA SPORTS is one of the world's leading sports entertainment brands, known for top-selling video game franchises, award-winning interactive technology, and cross-platform digital experiences. It creates connected gaming experiences that bring the emotion of sports to life through industry-leading titles, including Madden NFL, EA SPORTS FC, NHL, NBA LIVE, and UFC. As one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, EA SPORTS FC is redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences, connecting a global community of fans to The World's Game through innovation and unrivaled authenticity.