# Development Manager - 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

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/ro_RO/careers/JobDetail/Development-Manager-EA-Sports-FC/216469?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4367f6c3-8ec

## Description

Electronic Arts is looking for a Development Manager to lead the art team in delivering game features and assets on time and within budget. The successful candidate will oversee project schedules, hiring, and team management to achieve high standards.

Responsibilities:

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

- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritization, make trade-offs, balance needs versus technical constraints, and promote initial partner deployments.

- Focus on the immediate team, identify team issues, and suggest solutions related to execution goals.

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

- Establish engagement processes using Jira to ensure 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 range of benefits, including physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community well-being programs.

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- feature or asset production
- experience managing outsource vendors and remote teams

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