# 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/it_IT/careers/JobDetail/Development-Manager/215663?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Development Manager to join the EA SPORTS FC team in Vancouver, Canada. The successful candidate will oversee the delivery of game features and assets, ensuring timely completion within budget.

The EA SPORTS FC team is a global community of developers creating immersive experiences for sports fans worldwide. The team works in a hybrid environment, with three days onsite at EA Vancouver.

Responsibilities:

- Manage a development team consisting of artists, software engineers, and external partners.

- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritisation, and make trade-offs to balance needs and technical constraints.

- Focus on the immediate team, identifying issues and suggesting solutions related to execution goals.

- Ensure project setups meet studio specifications, with regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.

- Establish engagement processes using Jira to define workflows, document processes, and train staff.

- Partner with production, QV, and 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, such as computer science, game development, or business.

- 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.

Benefits: Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, financial, work-life, and collective well-being support. Benefits may include healthcare coverage, mental health assistance, pension savings, paid time off, family leaves, free games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- Jira
- Jaas
- Scrum
- Agile
- Project Management
- Game Development

### Nice to have
- feature or asset production
- experience managing outsource vendors and remote teams

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