Description
Electronic Arts crafts premium entertainment experiences that motivate gamers and fans globally. As a leader in interactive entertainment, the company is revolutionising how people engage with games and each other.
As a Development Director on the Research & Engineering team, you will collaborate cross-functionally to shape the future of AI and interactive entertainment. Your responsibilities will include turning technical goals into actionable plans, utilising automation and agentic AI tools to enhance team productivity, and guiding projects from research through to delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Translate research and engineering objectives into plans, milestones, and deliverables.
- Guide projects from early exploration through prototypes, integration, and release.
- Establish planning, milestone, review, and execution processes for research and engineering teams.
- Maintain visibility into priorities, progress, dependencies, risks, and outcomes.
- Coordinate decisions and resources to address project risks and blockers.
- Turn cross-functional discussions into decisions, actions, owners, and next steps.
- Build agentic AI workflows that automate scheduling, reporting, coordination, and information synthesis.
- Improve production tools and processes based on team and project needs.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years managing technical programs or projects in software, research, engineering, or related technical environments.
- Background managing scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, and delivery across technical programs.
- Experience applying Agile, Kanban, Lean, or similar development practices.
- Hands-on work building or operating agentic AI and automation workflows.
- Familiarity with large language model concepts, including task decomposition, tool use, retrieval, and evaluation.
- Experience synthesising technical information for teams and leadership.
- Proficiency with Jira or similar planning and tracking tools.
- Track record coordinating work across Research, Engineering, Product, and partner teams.
The ideal candidate is curious, open-minded, and enthusiastic about exploring innovative concepts and customising them for game development. If you're a motivated, creative, and effective communicator who is passionate about advancing gaming, we want you on our team.