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.
The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers an electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe. It delivers fluid and responsive mixed martial arts through inventive gameplay technology.
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS UFC team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime.
As a Development Director on UFC, you will be responsible for leading 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.
You will drive project planning, operational excellence, resource planning, and delivery predictability while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture. You’ll help shape how development happens, not just what gets delivered, through continuous improvement of processes, planning, and execution.
You will be the keeper of the project schedule and play an important role in successfully moving the Development team from one project phase to the next, with a focus on quality, collaboration, and communication.
We embrace emerging technologies, including AI, as tools to help our teams work smarter, improve quality, and unlock new ways of solving complex development challenges. We are looking for leaders who are curious, adaptable, and excited to help shape how these technologies are adopted across the team.
Your Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain an overall project plan by creating and maintaining resource capacity planning for the project, proactively mitigating production risks, and effectively managing internal and external dependencies.
- Drive effective processes within the team, ensuring workflows are well-defined and understood by the whole team. Seek out and define opportunities for process improvements and innovation.
- Participate in risk identification, mitigation, and contingency planning against project priorities.
- Drive and execute change management initiatives within the team.
- Build and evolve effective teams; identify resourcing needs, participate in the hiring process to ensure candidates meet project requirements, and provide challenges and development opportunities to ensure that all employees reach their potential.
- Suggest and implement operational changes to enable effective and motivated teams.
- Model and exhibit conflict resolution behaviours following established best practices.
- Effectively communicate team’s progress and status upward
- Identify and lead collaborative efforts across the organization, working with key stakeholders to affect change.
Your Qualifications
- 5+ years of Project Management Experience with production lifecycles, processes, and project planning in a dynamic and collaborative team environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Game Development, Business, 3D Arts, or a related field is preferred.
- Experience executing on project management methodologies, such as Waterfall and Agile.
- Experience in communicating and stakeholder management across all levels and organizations.
- Experience building complex systems with cross-discipline teams
Benefits
- We adopt a holistic 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.