Development Director - EA Sports FC

Electronic Arts is seeking a Development Director for EA Sports FC, a hybrid role located in Vancouver, B.C. The successful candidate will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering key areas of the on-pitch experience in EA SPORTS FC.

The Gameplay Development Director will report to the Lead Development Director and directly manage team members across Engineering, Animation, and Game Design. They will partner closely with discipline leaders to support craft excellence, career development, and effective team composition.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading a multidisciplinary Gameplay team that includes employees from Engineering, Animation, and Game Design.
• Managing the performance, development, engagement, and day-to-day experience of direct reports.
• Partnering with Engineering, Animation, and Game Design discipline leaders to align on employee development, craft expectations, staffing needs, and longer-term capability building.
• Owning the planning and delivery outcomes for assigned Gameplay areas.
• Translating creative and technical goals into clear, achievable development plans.
• Balancing the needs of current-title support, future releases, and longer-term Gameplay initiatives.
• Monitoring team health and delivery performance, proactively identifying risks.
• Leading milestone planning and readiness activities.
• Using player feedback, telemetry, playtesting insights, quality data, and team input to support prioritization and development decisions.
• Fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, transparency, constructive feedback, and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in game development, software development, production, project leadership, or a related field.
• Experience directly managing employees, including goal setting, coaching, career development, performance assessment, and managing performance concerns.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams that include two or more of Engineering, Animation, Game Design, Production, or Quality Verification.
• Strong understanding of the game development lifecycle and collaboration required to deliver player-facing features, systems, content, and technology.
• Proven ability to manage scope, capacity, schedules, dependencies, quality, and risk across multiple workstreams.
• Experience translating creative or technical objectives into structured and achievable execution plans.
• Demonstrated ability to build effective teams, improve ways of working, and create clarity in complex or ambiguous environments.
• Strong judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance product, delivery, people, and organizational considerations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Agile, Lean, or other iterative game-development and continuous-improvement practices.