Associate Development Manager

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

The EA SPORTS™ Technical Team is seeking an Associate Development Manager (ADM) to manage and coordinate a variety of technical disciplines while supporting cloud infrastructure and live gaming services.

As the keeper of the project schedule, you will help guide engineers through each phase of the project lifecycle, ensuring effective collaboration, communication, and delivery.

Working closely with leadership, and engineers, you will prioritize initiatives, manage schedules and dependencies, mitigate risks, and improve delivery predictability. You will help ensure technical projects and initiatives are delivered on time, to the expected quality standards, and within budget, while supporting the reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement of EA SPORTS platforms and live gaming services.

You will do the following:

Execution:

• Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing a team at a project-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 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 large, cross-functional teams, with demonstrated skills in facilitation, stakeholder alignment, 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

Pay Transparency - North America

* British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$74,100 - $102,000 CAD