# 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/es_ES/careers/JobDetail/Development-Manager/215663?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_32878575-1d2

## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Development Manager to join the EA SPORTS FC team in Vancouver. As a Development Manager, you will oversee a team of artists, software engineers, and external partners to deliver game features and assets on time and within budget.

Responsibilities:

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

- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritisation, make trade-offs, 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, 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 considered an asset.

Benefits: Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical insurance, mental wellbeing support, pension plan, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.

## Skills

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

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

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Source: [Apply at jobs.ea.com](https://jobs.ea.com/es_ES/careers/JobDetail/Development-Manager/215663?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)