# Development Manager - EA Sports Tech

**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/es_ES/careers/JobDetail/Development-Manager-Sports-Tech/214973?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Electronic Arts creates incredible entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. Here, everyone is part of the story, part of a community that connects people globally.

As a Development Manager in EA SPORTS Tech, you will partner with Technical Artists to support the successful delivery of tools, workflows, and content across EA SPORTS. The Technical Art team is a central service team that supports multiple game development projects, each with different timelines, priorities, and delivery needs.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide day-to-day support for Technical Artists by tracking work, following up on open items, and maintaining clear team information.

- Help clarify production priorities and align team efforts with project goals by gathering information, tracking dependencies, and supporting conversations with internal and external partners.

- Facilitate collaboration within the Technical Art team and with partner teams, identifying blockers, surfacing risks, and resolving open issues early.

- Partner with the Development Director and Technical Art Directors to support team planning, onboarding, resourcing conversations, and development opportunities for team members.

**Execution:**

- Support the team in executing against milestones, deliverables, and project commitments across multiple EA SPORTS projects.

- Track task progress, dependencies, risks, and capacity, escalating concerns to the Development Director, Technical Art Directors, and project leadership when needed.

- Partner with production and Technical Art leadership to balance scope, quality, and timelines.

**Project Management:**

- Partner with the Development Director to support sprint planning, retrospectives, task tracking, and project reporting.

- Maintain Technical Art project plans, backlogs, dashboards, and team documentation to ensure information is accurate and accessible.

**Requirements:**

- 2+ years of project management, production, or team coordination experience in software development, game development, or a related technical environment.

- Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline such as Computer Science, Interactive Entertainment, Commerce, Digital Arts, or equivalent practical experience.

- Exposure to Agile or Scrum frameworks is an asset, as is familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Miro, Slack, Excel, Google Sheets, and other project-tracking and reporting tools.

**Benefits:** Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical insurance, mental wellbeing support, pension plan, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile
- Scrum
- JIRA
- Miro
- Slack
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- project management
- production
- team coordination

### Nice to have
- game development
- software development
- Technical Art
- cross-functional development teams

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