About the role
Location and Work Model
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Work Model: Hybrid (3 days/onsite: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at EA Vancouver)
Role Overview
EA SPORTS FC is a global community of developers focused on creating leading-edge content and immersive experiences across multiple platforms. The Associate Development Manager (ADM) manages a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA, and other production staff. ADMs serve as the keepers of the project schedule, moving the development team between project phases while ensuring collaboration, communication, and alignment with Producers and Technical Directors to deliver projects on time, to quality, and within budget.
Responsibilities
Execution:
- Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals.
- Achieve project deliverables through managing the team at a project-level (e.g., Franchise-wide level).
- Collaborate with cross-team disciplines to manage the delivery of dependencies.
- Mitigate risk for assigned scope.
- Partner with production and tech to manage scope and quality.
- Use Jira to establish engagement processes, ensure workflows are clearly defined, document processes, and train staff in expectations.
Project Management:
- Establish an overall project schedule based on individual task estimates for production.
- Determine the resource requirements to meet task requirements.
- Establish a project budget, determine task requirements, and assign tasks to team resources.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, manage project prioritization, and make tradeoffs.
- Ensure the project meets Studio specifications with regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.
Requirements
- 1+ years of Project Management experience with production lifecycles, processes, and project planning.
- Experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment.
- Experience working with expansive teams, mediation, and conflict resolution.
- University degree, bachelor's, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience in different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile (considered an asset).
Compensation and Benefits
Pay Range:
- British Columbia (e.g., Vancouver vs. Victoria): $74,100 - $102,000 CAD
- Note: Pay offered is determined based on business and candidate factors including education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business needs.
Benefits for Canada:
- Vacation: 3 weeks per year to start.
- Sick Time: 10 days per year.
- Parental Leave: Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary (12 weeks for maternity, 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave).
- Insurance: Extended health, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability insurance.
- Retirement: Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
- Additional: Certain roles may be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.
- Holistic Support: Access to mental well-being support, family leaves, and complimentary games.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts values adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. The company adopts a holistic approach to wellness, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community support. EA is an equal opportunity employer and makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by law.