# 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

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/pl_PL/careers/JobDetail/Development-Manager/215663?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Electronic Arts is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment, connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

The EA SPORTS FC team is a global community of developers, fueled by imagination and a unified passion to grow the love of sports for players worldwide through inspiring visuals and immersive experiences.

As a Development Manager within the art team, you will oversee the project schedule, hiring, and manage the team to achieve a high standard.

Responsibilities:

- Manage a development team consisting of Artists, Software Engineers, and external partners.

- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritization, make tradeoffs, balance needs versus technical constraints, and promote initial partner deployments.

- Focus on the immediate team and identify team issues, and suggest solutions related to execution goals.

- Ensure each project setup meets the specifications of the Studio with regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.

- Establish engagement processes using Jira to ensure all workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained in expectations.

- Partner with Production, QV, Art Directors to ensure game quality targets are met.

Qualifications:

- 3+ years of Project Management or Project Lead Experience with production lifecycles, processes, and project planning.

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

- Experience in a Scrum/Agile software development environment.

- Proven track record using Jira and Jaas to manage concurrent projects.

- Experience working with expansive teams, mediation, and conflict resolution.

- Experience managing Outsource vendors and remote teams is considered an asset.

- Experience in feature or asset production is beneficial.

## Skills

### Required
- Project Management
- Jira
- Agile
- Scrum
- Game Development
- Computer Science
- 3D Arts

### Nice to have
- Jaas
- Conflict Resolution
- Mediation
- Outsource Vendor Management

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