Description
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.
As a Development Director, you will lead the planning and execution of complex cross-functional development efforts across multiple teams and disciplines. You will partner closely with Production, Design, Engineering, Quality Verification, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality player experiences on time and within budget.
Your responsibilities:
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex cross-functional development efforts, ensuring delivery against quality, scope, schedule, and budget objectives.
- Partner with Production, Design, Engineering, QV, and other disciplines to establish delivery plans, align priorities, and drive successful execution.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, balancing dependencies, milestones, and resource allocation across multiple teams.
- Drive capacity planning and staffing strategies by identifying resource needs, balancing workloads, and partnering with leadership on hiring and organizational planning.
- Proactively identify delivery risks, remove blockers, and implement mitigation strategies to maintain project health and predictability.
- Facilitate alignment across teams, proactively resolve cross-functional challenges, and influence decisions across disciplines to enable successful delivery.
- Champion operational excellence by improving development processes, planning practices, operating rhythms, and execution frameworks that increase efficiency and predictability.
- Champion the adoption of emerging technologies, including AI, to improve planning, communication, operational efficiency, and development workflows while helping teams successfully adopt new ways of working.
- Lead, coach, and develop high-performing teams through coaching, performance management, feedback, career development, and hiring.
- Manage project budgets, forecasts, and operational planning in partnership with Production and leadership.
- Mentor peers and contribute to the evolution of development management best practices across the studio.
Your qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience leading complex software or game development projects, including 5+ years of people leadership in a collaborative development environment.
- Proven experience leading large cross-functional teams through multiple phases of product development.
- Strong project management skills, including roadmap planning, scheduling, capacity planning, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
- Experience balancing scope, quality, schedule, and budget to successfully deliver complex projects.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and build alignment across multiple disciplines and stakeholder groups.
- Experience driving operational improvements and implementing scalable development processes.
- Experience using modern AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, Claude, or similar) to improve productivity, planning, communication, or problem-solving, with an interest in expanding AI capabilities and applying them to improve quality, operational excellence, and team effectiveness.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills with the ability to operate effectively at both strategic and execution levels.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience working with Agile development methodologies.
The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g., education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).
Pay ranges:
- British Columbia (depending on location e.g., Vancouver vs. Victoria) $141,400 - $204,400 CAD
Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.
For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including 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 you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.