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Development Director
Electronic Arts (EA SPORTS UFC)
Job Summary
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment, connecting hundreds of millions globally to the sports they love through industry-leading video games. The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players worldwide, delivering fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team is on a mission to become the world’s greatest fighting game. If you’re passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime.
Role Overview
Reporting to a Lead Development Director, a Development Director manages a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA, and other production staff. Development Directors are the keepers of the project schedule and play an important role in successfully moving the development team from one project phase to the next while ensuring a focus on quality, collaboration, and communication. You will partner with producers to ensure that projects are managed on time, to quality, and within budget.
This team works hybrid onsite (Tuesday + Wednesday) in Vancouver. This is a 12-month contract to begin with.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and evolve effective teams; identify resourcing needs, provide challenges and development opportunities to ensure that all employees reach their potential.
- Build working relationships with the immediate team and those outside the immediate team that affect 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.
- Establish and assign tasks from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing a team at a project-level (e.g., franchise-wide level).
- Proactively mitigate risk for assigned scope and quality.
- Establish an overall project schedule based on individual task estimates for production and determine resource requirements to meet task needs.
- Establish a project budget, determine task dependencies, and assign tasks to team resources.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years project management or team leadership experience, with 4+ years of management experience working in a dynamic and collaborative team environment.
- University degree (Bachelor’s) or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience communicating across all levels and organizations.
- Experience in project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
Compensation and Benefits
The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g., education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).
Pay Ranges:
- British Columbia (depending on location, e.g., Vancouver vs. Victoria): $115,100 – $161,200 CAD
In British Columbia, EA offers a benefits package including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, extended health/dental/vision coverage, and basic life insurance.
About Electronic Arts
We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.
We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and much more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
