Development Director - The Sims

We are seeking a Development Director I to lead the Experiential Quality team for The Sims. As a Development Director I, you will lead the team responsible for evaluating how features, content, and gameplay experiences are landing from a player perspective.

You will establish the operating model that turns structured player-focused evaluation into actionable product insights, helping development teams understand where experiences are succeeding, where risks are emerging, and where changes could better support player expectations and creativity.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop, and support a high-performing Experiential Quality team by setting clear expectations, creating accountability, and ensuring individuals understand how their work contributes to product and organisational goals.
• Manage and develop team leaders and individual contributors through regular coaching, performance feedback, career development, and growth opportunities.
• Monitor team health, engagement, workload, and organisational effectiveness, identifying issues early and taking action when team structure, responsibilities, or ways of working need to change.
• Generate regular reports on the activities and findings of the local team to highlight the quality status of the project.
• Ensure the team has the right mix of skills, player perspectives, franchise knowledge, and leadership capability to meet current and future Experiential Quality needs.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in a software development environment
• 5 years Project Management or Project Lead experience
• 5 years minimum of leadership experience
• Risk management and solutions-oriented problem-solving techniques
• Experienced with financial management, budget tracking, QA cost estimates, and constraints
• Strong personal communicator comfortable communicating across technical and non-technical disciplines with the ability to influence where needed
• Strong understanding of analytics and KPIs as a way of tracking product quality
• Excellent knowledge of production life cycle, tools, processes, and execution planning
• Experience in a Scrum/Agile software development environment