Associate Development Manager

The EA SPORTS Technical Team is seeking an Associate Development Manager (ADM) to manage and coordinate various technical disciplines while supporting cloud infrastructure and live gaming services.

As the keeper of the project schedule, you will help guide engineers through each phase of the project lifecycle, ensuring effective collaboration, communication, and delivery.

Working closely with leadership and engineers, you will prioritize initiatives, manage schedules and dependencies, mitigate risks, and improve delivery predictability. You will help ensure technical projects and initiatives are delivered on time, to the expected quality standards, and within budget, while supporting the reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement of EA SPORTS platforms and live gaming services.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing a team at a project-level.
• Collaborate with cross-team disciplines to manage delivery of dependencies.
• Mitigate risk for assigned scope.
• Partner with production and tech to manage scope and quality.
• Using Jira, establish engagement processes to ensure all workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained 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, project prioritization, make tradeoffs.
• Ensure projects meet specifications with regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.

Requirements:

• 1+ year of Project Management experience with production lifecycles, processes, and project planning.
• Experience in a Scrum/Agile software development environment.
• Experience working with large, cross-functional teams, with demonstrated skills in facilitation, stakeholder alignment, mediation, and conflict resolution.
• University degree, bachelor's or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience in different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile is an asset.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community well-being support.
• Personalized packages to meet local needs, including medical insurance, mental well-being support, pension plan, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.