# Development Director - EA SPORTS™ UFC

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**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/zh_CN/careers/JobDetail/Development-Director-EA-SPORTS-UFC/216410?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers an exciting experience for over 20 million players globally, delivering fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through innovative gameplay technology.

As a Development Director on UFC, you will lead complex cross-functional development efforts across multiple teams and disciplines. You will partner with Production, Design, Engineering, Quality Verification, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality player experiences on time and within budget.

Responsibilities:

- Establish and maintain project plans, resource capacity planning, and mitigate production risks.

- Drive effective processes, ensuring workflows are well-defined and understood by the team.

- Participate in risk identification, mitigation, and contingency planning.

- Build and evolve effective teams, identifying resourcing needs and providing challenges and development opportunities.

- Suggest and implement operational changes to enable effective and motivated teams.

- Model conflict resolution behaviors and communicate team's progress and status upward.

- Identify and lead collaborative efforts across the organization.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of Project Management Experience with production lifecycles, processes, and project planning.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Game Development, Business, 3D Arts, or a related field is preferred.

- Experience with project management methodologies, such as Waterfall and Agile.

- Experience in communicating and stakeholder management across all levels and organizations.

- Experience building complex systems with cross-discipline teams.

Benefits: Electronic Arts offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, mental health support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Cross-functional development
- Leadership

### Nice to have
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Game Development
- Computer Science

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