# Development Director, Technical Operations **Company**: Electronic Arts **Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $141,400 - $204,400 CAD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Ticker**: EA **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941 **Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Development-Director-Technical-Operations/214829?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0534341c-341 ## Description Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen. The Role EA's Quality, Verification and Standards organization is in the middle of a meaningful shift , moving toward AI-enabled teams that work faster, deliver more confidently, and operate with capabilities that are genuinely new. Technology is central to that shift. A growing portfolio of technology investments is actively working to make it real. This role exists at the center of that work. As a Development Director in QVS Technical Operations, you will use your delivery experience, technical expertise, and cross-functional credibility to keep our portfolio of technology investments visible, aligned, and moving forward. Operating across multiple investments simultaneously, you will coordinate progress, track adoption, synthesize signals, and provide leadership with a clear, evidence-based view of investment health, risks, readiness, and what actions or decisions are needed next. Responsibilities - Apply your delivery experience and technical expertise to coordinate, track, and report across a portfolio of technology investments through all phases of their lifecycle , maintaining current visibility into execution progress, adoption trajectory, value realization, and investment cost - Support leaders through structured decision reviews , helping them understand what is required, helping shape decision-ready inputs, and demonstrating progress with genuine evidence - Track investment progress between formal reviews across multiple concurrent efforts , using your technical grounding to identify and surface gaps early and keep investments on track - Synthesize early performance signals and value indicators across the portfolio , drawing on delivery expertise to size the opportunity, distinguishing strong signals from noise, and ensuring leadership has a grounded basis for proceed, pivot, or stop decisions - Engage directly with Business Units, franchises, and technology partners to track adoption and execution progress in practice , bringing the credibility to have honest conversations about what is landing and what is not - Identify, track, and escalate risks across the portfolio , driving mitigation rather than just flagging issues, and ensuring leadership is informed while there is still time to act - Contribute portfolio-level insight that informs investment prioritization and strategic planning , providing a grounded view of where the portfolio stands and what it signals, not just reporting status - Maintain portfolio tracking tools and systems, ensuring investment status, key decisions, costs, and progress indicators are accurate and up to date - Contribute to quarterly reporting cycles, portfolio health updates, and leadership narratives - Engage with Finance partners to ensure investment spend is accurately tracked and reported, and contribute to cost versus benefit framing at investment reviews Qualifications - 7+ years in delivery leadership, operations, or investment management within a technology-focused organization - Experience in games development or entertainment technology , a genuine understanding of how franchise and studio teams operate and deliver - Track record managing a broad portfolio of concurrent technology investments across their full lifecycle , from early exploration through to scale and adoption - Experience engaging senior technology and business leaders as a credible peers , contributing to investment plans, shaping thinking, and helping leaders navigate complex portfolios - Strong synthesis and communication skills , able to turn complex, cross-portfolio data into clear intelligence that moves decisions - Financially literate , comfortable with investment tracking, resource planning, and cost versus benefit conversations - Strong risk identification skills , surfaces issues early and drives resolution Preferred - Familiarity with structured investment or governance frameworks - Experience with portfolio tracking tools such as Coda or Jira - Exposure to AI or emerging technology pilots and early-stage value assessment - Curiosity about AI and experience working alongside AI-native workflows or teams ## Skills ### Required - delivery experience - technical expertise - cross-functional credibility - portfolio management - investment tracking - risk identification - financial literacy - synthesis and communication skills ### Nice to have - structured investment or governance frameworks - portfolio tracking tools - AI or emerging technology pilots - curiosity about AI --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ea.com](https://jobs.ea.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Development-Director-Technical-Operations/214829?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)