# Development Manager - EA Sports FC

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/it_IT/careers/JobDetail/Development-Manager-EA-Sports-FC/216167?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Electronic Arts is looking for a Development Manager to join the EA SPORTS FC team in Vancouver. The successful candidate will oversee the delivery of game features and assets, manage a team of artists, software engineers, and external partners, and ensure project schedules and budgets are met.

Responsibilities:

- Manage a development team consisting of artists, software engineers, and external partners

- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritization, make tradeoffs, balance needs versus technical constraints, and promote initial partner deployments

- Focus on the immediate team and identify team issues, and suggest solutions related to execution goals

- Ensure each project setup meets the specifications of the Studio with regular status reporting and capacity plan updates

- Establish engagement processes using Jira to ensure all workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained in expectations

- Partner with Production, QV, Art Directors to ensure game quality targets are met

Qualifications:

- 3+ years of Project Management or Project Lead Experience with production lifecycles, processes, and project planning

- Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as Computer Science, Game Development, Business, or 3D Arts

- Experience in a Scrum/Agile software development environment

- Proven track record using Jira and Jaas to manage concurrent projects

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

- Experience managing outsource vendors and remote teams is considered an asset

- Experience in feature or asset production is beneficial

Electronic Arts offers a range of benefits, including physical, emotional, financial, work-life, and collective well-being programs to support a balanced life. The company values adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity, and provides opportunities for growth and development.

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management
- Jira
- Jaas
- Scrum
- Agile
- Software Development
- Game Development
- Computer Science
- 3D Arts

### Nice to have
- Experience managing outsource vendors and remote teams
- Experience in feature or asset production

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