Esports
Associate Development Manager - FC
Mid Level
Vancouver, Canada
hybrid
Full time
Job description
About the Role
The Associate Development Manager enables efficient, predictable, and transparent delivery of content initiatives within the EA SPORTS FC team. Reporting to the Development Director - FC, the role owns delivery structure, process clarity, schedules, status visibility, and workflow improvement. The role partners with Producers and Directors to ensure the project is managed on time, to quality, and within budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain delivery schedules for operational initiatives, including milestones, dependencies, owners, and timelines.
- Keep cross-functional teams aligned, accountable, and aware of progress, risks, blockers, and next steps.
- Maintain up-to-date trackers and ensure information remains accurate across relevant systems.
- Document production and partner workflows, including process steps, POCs, lead times, handoffs, and dependencies.
- Provide stakeholder reporting on active campaign and seasonal content, delivery status, risks, and upcoming priorities.
- Identify process inefficiencies and implement improvements that increase speed, clarity, and scalability.
- Use automation (e.g. Gemini Enterprise) to reduce manual work and improve information flow.
- Produce delivery schedules, activation trackers, status reports, process maps, workflow documentation, risk and dependency updates, and workflow automations.
- Contribute to success measures including increased speed and predictability of seasonal content delivery, improved process clarity, accountability, and stakeholder visibility, minimised activation error rate, and reduced manual tracking, duplicated work, and operational friction.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 2+ years of project management or team leadership experience.
- Experience in different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
- Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Jira.
Workplace
- Hybrid: 3 days per week onsite (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) at EA Vancouver.
Benefits & Perks
- For Canada, benefits include 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 welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and a retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
- Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programmes.
About the Company
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, serving a broad portfolio of FC titles across multiple platforms for hundreds of millions of sports fans worldwide.
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