# Development Director - EA SPORTS™ UFC

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $122,300 - $170,700 CAD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers an exciting spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players globally. It provides fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through innovative gameplay technology.

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team aims to become the world's greatest fighting game. As a Development Director on UFC, you will lead the planning and execution of complex cross-functional development efforts across multiple teams and disciplines.

Your responsibilities:

- Establish and maintain an overall project plan, creating and maintaining resource capacity planning, proactively mitigating production risks, and effectively managing internal and external dependencies.

- Drive effective processes within the team, ensuring workflows are well-defined and understood by the whole team.

- Participate in risk identification, mitigation, and contingency planning against project priorities.

- Build and evolve effective teams; identify resourcing needs, participate in the hiring process, and provide challenges and development opportunities.

- Suggest and implement operational changes to enable effective and motivated teams.

- Model and exhibit conflict resolution behaviours following established best practices.

- Effectively communicate team's progress and status upward.

- Identify and lead collaborative efforts across the organization.

Your qualifications:

- 5+ years of Project Management Experience with production lifecycles, processes, and project planning in a dynamic and collaborative team environment.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Game Development, Business, 3D Arts, or a related field is preferred.

- Experience executing project management methodologies, such as Waterfall and Agile.

- Experience in communicating and stakeholder management across all levels and organizations.

- Experience building complex systems with cross-discipline teams.

Benefits:

- Vacation (3 weeks per year to start)

- 10 days per year of sick time

- Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child

- Extended health/dental/vision coverage

- Life insurance

- Disability insurance

- Retirement plan

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Communication
- Stakeholder Management

### Nice to have
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Game Development
- Computer Science

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