# Development Director II

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Montreal
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Join the Battlefield team as a Development Director and help shape the future of Battlefield.

As part of the Foundational Tech organisation, the Franchise Tech team plays a critical role in supporting Battlefield development teams across regions – including Sweden, the UK, the US, and Canada. This cross-functional, geographically distributed team is dedicated to developing core technology and providing game development services across the Battlefield franchise.

As Development Director II, you'll lead highly technically skilled Software Engineering teams. Your leadership will directly influence the player's experience across current and future Battlefield titles.

Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the operational aspects of the team(s), including project planning, reporting, risk management, capacity planning, and efficiency processes.

- Work with the team leadership to define the team strategy and lead the team in execution against milestones and key deliverables.

- Work with partner DDs to identify and track dependencies. This includes financial, development, analytical, and creative teams.

- Implement operational changes and processes to enable effective and motivated teams.

- Solve problems, balance priorities, and find creative solutions to achieve results.

- Develop, maintain, and publish project and team KPIs that track team performance.

- Establish regular communication with the team and key stakeholders to provide project status updates.

- Keep the team and partners' teams informed on development results, schedule, and changes.

We're looking for someone with a minimum of 6-8 years of project management and team leadership experience, with 4+ years of management experience working in a dynamic and collaborative team environment. You should have solid comprehension of lean, agile, and waterfall methodologies	NULL

The ideal candidate will also have excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work with different organisational levels, as well as the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences. Experience with distributed development across multiple locations and solid experience working with deep technical teams is also desirable.

If you're passionate about leading high-performing teams and driving innovation, we'd love to hear from you!

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- team leadership
- lean
- agile
- waterfall
- distributed development
- deep technical teams

### Nice to have
- financial reporting
- business reporting
- live operations
- service operations

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