# Development Manager @ EA Sports FC

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Bucharest, Romania
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/sv_SE/careers/JobDetail/Development-manager/216029?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0c99d8bf-3e9

## Description

As a Development Manager (DM) for the FC Ultimate Team, reporting to the Development Director, you will help manage a team of Software Engineers to deliver high-quality features for FC within the most played game mode.

Your Responsibilities:

- Manage a development team that primarily consists of Software Engineers.

- Host daily stand-up meetings and ensure the team is following procedures for work prioritization.

- Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of the assigned projects.

- Manage sprint planning, allocate resources, and ensure alignment with Production Leads.

- Work closely with cross-functional teams and partners, including design, engineering, and QV.

- Support capacity planning, identifying and communicating any resource constraints or challenges.

- Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including delivery of regular status updates.

- Anticipate risks, mitigate blockers and provide management escalation where needed.

- Identify team challenges and implement agile methodologies to optimize workflows and productivity.

Your Qualifications:

- 4+ years of Project Management or Project Lead experience with production lifecycles, processes and project planning.

- 3+ years of People Management experience.

- Bachelor's degree in any number of related fields including Computer Science, Game Development, Business Management.

- Experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment (Jira, Slack, Excel, Google Sheets, and Miro), plus software or tooling automation experience is preferred but not necessary.

- Experience working with expansive teams, mediation and conflict resolution.

- Comfortable public speaking, talking through solutions and distilling information.

- Experience with formal communications, publishing reports or partner-facing documentation is highly recommended.

- Proficiency in English both writing and speaking.

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management
- People Management
- Agile Methodologies
- Scrum
- Software Development

### Nice to have
- Jira
- Slack
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- Miro
- Software Automation

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