# 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

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Development Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering key areas of the on-pitch experience in EA SPORTS FC.

The Development Manager will report to the 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.

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 team capability

- Supporting planning and delivery outcomes for assigned Gameplay area

- Translating creative and technical goals into clear, achievable development plans

- Balancing current-title support, future releases, and longer-term Gameplay initiatives

- Monitoring team health and delivery performance, proactively identifying risks

- Fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, transparency, constructive feedback, and continuous improvement

Requirements:

- 5+ 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, and performance assessment

- 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

- Proven ability to manage scope, capacity, schedules, dependencies, quality, and risk across multiple workstreams

Bonus qualifications:

- 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
- team management
- Agile
- Lean

### Nice to have
- Gameplay development
- EA SPORTS FC
- football
- sports-gaming

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