# 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 for its EA SPORTS FC Gameplay team in Vancouver, British Columbia. The successful candidate will 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 will be responsible for managing team members across Engineering, Animation, and Game Design. They will partner 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 areas.

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

- Partnering with Gameplay Producers, Designers, Technical Directors, Animation Directors, and Quality Verification leaders to establish priorities and maintain alignment across disciplines.

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

- Monitoring team health and delivery performance, proactively identifying risks.

- Supporting milestone planning and readiness activities.

- Using player feedback, telemetry, playtesting insights, quality data, and team input to support prioritization and development decisions.

- Leading cross-functional initiatives that require coordination across Gameplay teams, partner organizations, studios, or disciplines.

- Establishing and improving team operating practices.

- Providing clear and concise updates to Gameplay leadership on progress, risks, mitigation plans, staffing needs, and decisions requiring support.

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

- Supporting hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and organizational changes within the area.

- Partnering with the Development Director on organizational planning, staffing, team health, and broader Gameplay initiatives.

Requirements include:

- 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, 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.

- Experience driving outcomes in a matrixed organization through influence, collaboration, and stakeholder alignment.

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- game development
- software development
- project leadership
- multidisciplinary team management
- Agile
- Lean

### Nice to have
- 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

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