# Development Manager - EA Sports FC

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $104,500 - $142,800 CAD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/fr_CA/careers/JobDetail/Development-Manager-EA-Sports-FC/216469?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Electronic Arts is a renowned entertainment company that develops exceptional experiences, inspiring players and fans globally. EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment, connecting hundreds of millions of people to sports through industry-leading video games.

The EA SPORTS FC team is a global community of developers driven by imagination and a unified passion to grow the love of sports for players worldwide. They create visually stunning and immersive experiences, pushing boundaries across multiple disciplines.

As a Development Manager within the art team, you will report to a Development Director and oversee the delivery of game features and assets on time and within budget. Your responsibilities include:

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

- Anticipating bottlenecks, providing management escalation, project prioritization, making trade-offs, balancing needs versus technical constraints, and promoting initial partner deployments

- Focusing on the immediate team, identifying team issues, and suggesting solutions related to execution goals

- Ensuring each project setup meets studio specifications with regular status reporting and capacity plan updates

- Establishing engagement processes using Jira to ensure clear workflows, documented processes, and trained staff

- Partnering with Production, QV, and Art Directors to meet game quality targets

Requirements:

- 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, or business

- 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 an asset

- Experience in feature or asset production is beneficial

Benefits:

- Competitive salary: $104,500 - $142,800 CAD per year

- Comprehensive benefits package, including vacation time, sick leave, extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement plan

## Skills

### Required
- Jira
- Jaas
- Scrum
- Agile
- Project Management
- Game Development

### Nice to have
- feature production
- asset production
- conflict resolution
- mediation

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