# Development Director - EA Sports FC

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

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## Description

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story, part of a community that connects people all over the world, where creativity thrives, new perspectives are welcomed, and ideas matter.

As a Development Director, EA SPORTS FC Gameplay, you will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering key areas of the on-pitch experience in EA SPORTS FC. You will report to the Lead Development Director and directly manage team members across Engineering, Animation, and Game Design, while partnering closely with discipline leaders to support craft excellence, career development, and effective team composition.

Your responsibilities will 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 your 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 your assigned Gameplay area.

- 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 the 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.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus skills:

- Experience working directly with Gameplay teams or systems.

- Experience leading teams within a large-scale AAA game-development organization.

- Experience supporting an annualized sports franchise.

- Knowledge of EA SPORTS FC, football, and the broader sports-gaming landscape.

## Skills

### Required
- game development
- software development
- project leadership
- Engineering
- Animation
- Game Design

### Nice to have
- Gameplay teams
- AAA game-development organization
- annualized sports franchise
- EA SPORTS FC

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