# Development Director

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Montreal, Quebec
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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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 Director on our Research & Engineering team, you will partner cross-functionally to help shape the future of AI and interactive entertainment. You will turn technical goals into clear plans and use automation and agentic AI tools to improve how teams plan, coordinate, and deliver work.

Responsibilities:

- Translate research and engineering objectives into plans, milestones, and deliverables.

- Guide projects from early exploration through prototypes, integration, and release.

- Establish planning, milestone, review, and execution processes for research and engineering teams.

- Maintain visibility into priorities, progress, dependencies, risks, and outcomes.

- Coordinate decisions and resources to address project risks and blockers.

- Turn cross-functional discussions into decisions, actions, owners, and next steps.

- Build agentic AI workflows that automate scheduling, reporting, coordination, and information synthesis.

- Improve production tools and processes based on team and project needs.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years managing technical programs or projects in software, research, engineering, or related technical environments.

- Background managing scope, schedules, dependencies, risks, and delivery across technical programs.

- Experience applying Agile, Kanban, Lean, or similar development practices.

- Hands-on work building or operating agentic AI and automation workflows.

- Familiarity with large language model concepts, including task decomposition, tool use, retrieval, and evaluation.

- Experience synthesising technical information for teams and leadership.

- Proficiency with Jira or similar planning and tracking tools.

- Track record coordinating work across Research, Engineering, Product, and partner teams.

We are a diverse, goal-driven team that offers real influence and autonomy to every member. Our ideal candidate is curious, open-minded, and thrilled by exploring fresh concepts and tailoring them for game development.

Benefits:

- We adopt an integrated approach with our benefits programs, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community wellbeing to support a balanced life. Our packages are customised to meet local needs and may include medical insurance, mental wellbeing support, pension plan, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile
- Kanban
- Lean
- Jira
- Large language models
- Automation
- AI
- Technical program management

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