Development Manager - EA Sports FC

The EA SPORTS FC team is a global community of developers, fuelled by imagination and a unified passion to grow the love of sports for players worldwide through inspiring visuals and immersive experiences, crafting games for hundreds of millions of sports fans across multiple platforms. Reporting to a Development Director, the Development Manager within the art team ensures the delivery of game features and assets on time and within budget. The role holder oversees the project schedule, hiring, and management of the team to achieve a high standard.

• Manage a development team generally consisting of artists, software engineers and external partners.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritisation and tradeoffs, balance needs against technical constraints, and promote initial partner deployments.
• Focus on the immediate team, identify team issues and suggest solutions related to execution goals, and identify task-related processes to improve efficiency.
• Ensure each project setup meets the specifications of the studio through regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.
• Establish engagement processes in Jira so that all workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained in expectations.
• Partner with Production, QV and Art Directors to ensure game quality targets are met.

• 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 or 3D arts.
• Experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment.
• Proven track record using Jira and Jaas to manage concurrent projects, with the ability to create dashboards, workflows and automation when required.
• Experience working with expansive teams, mediation and conflict resolution.

• Experience managing outsource vendors and remote teams is considered an asset.
• Experience in feature or asset production is beneficial.

• Hybrid working: three days per week onsite (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) at EA Vancouver.

• 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 and disability insurance.
• Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programmes.
• Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

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. The team pushes visual boundaries and creates leading-edge content across multiple disciplines.