Development Director - EA Sports FC

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

The successful candidate will report to the Lead Development Director and directly manage team members across Engineering, Animation, and Game Design. They will partner closely with discipline leaders to support craft excellence, career development, and effective team composition.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead a multidisciplinary Gameplay team that includes employees from Engineering, Animation, and Game Design.
• Manage the performance, development, engagement, and day-to-day experience of direct reports.
• Partner with Engineering, Animation, and Game Design discipline leaders to align on employee development, craft expectations, staffing needs, and longer-term capability building.
• Own the planning and delivery outcomes for assigned Gameplay areas.
• Translate creative and technical goals into clear, achievable development plans.
• Balance the needs of current-title support, future releases, and longer-term Gameplay initiatives.
• Monitor team health and delivery performance, proactively identifying risks.
• Lead milestone planning and readiness activities.
• Use player feedback, telemetry, playtesting insights, quality data, and team input to support prioritization and development decisions.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, transparency, constructive feedback, and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in game development, software development, production, project leadership, or a related field.
• Experience directly managing employees.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong understanding of the game development lifecycle.
• Proven ability to manage scope, capacity, schedules, dependencies, quality, and risk.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Agile, Lean, or other iterative game-development and continuous-improvement practices.

Bonus requirements:

• 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.
• Experience managing employees from different crafts or job disciplines.
• Knowledge of EA SPORTS FC, football, and the broader sports-gaming landscape.

In terms of compensation and benefits, Electronic Arts offers:

• Salary range: $122,300 - $170,700 CAD
• A package of benefits including vacation, sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits, extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan, and others.