Associate Development Manager - EA Sports FC

EA SPORTS 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. We push visual boundaries and create leading edge content across multiple disciplines. Serving our broad portfolio of FC titles, and across multiple platforms, we craft amazing games for hundreds of millions of sports fans worldwide.

This team works hybrid 3 days/onsite (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) at EA Vancouver.

What an Associate Development Manager (ADM) does at EA:

The Associate Development Manager manages a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA and other production staff. ADM's are the keepers of the project schedule and help move the development team from one project phase to the next while ensuring collaboration and communication. You will partner with Producers and Technical Directors to ensure the project is managed on time, to quality, and within budget.

You will do the following:

Execution:

• Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing team at a project-level (e.g. Franchise-wide level);
• Collaborating with cross-team disciplines to manage delivery of dependencies
• Mitigate risk for assigned scope
• Partner with production and tech to manage scope and quality
• Using Jira, establish engagement processes to ensure all workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained in expectations

Project management:

• Establish an overall project schedule based on the individual task estimates for production
• Determine the resource requirements to meet the task requirements
• Establish a project budget, determine task requirements, and assign tasks to team resources
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritization, make tradeoffs,
• Ensure project meets the specifications of the Studio with regular status reporting, and capacity plan updates

Requirements

• 1+ years of Project Management experience with production lifecycles, processes and project planning.
• Experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment.
• Experience working with expansive teams, mediation and conflict resolution.
• University degree, bachelor's or equivalent professional experience
• Experience in different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile is an asset