Development Manager

Job Description

Join us in driving the next revolution in games.

We are looking for a very experienced person who is passionate about driving software and game quality to lead our FIFA products based in our Vancouver studio.

You will provide operational leadership for the Quality Verification (QV) department, made up of Management, Quality Design, Engineering and Analytics. This multi-discipline department is a component of the development and live services for our FIFA franchise. You will report to the Supervising Development Director for FIFA QV.

Your primary responsibilities will be:
• Manage planning in all development stages from pre-pro, production, launch, and live.
• Scope and Capacity Management across QV.
• Overall project risk assessment and status communication to FIFA leadership.
• Create scenarios and guide the decision-making process
• Improve operational effectiveness of team effort by assessing current practices and incorporating new strategies.
• Promote evolution of QV practices across FIFA products.
• Identify opportunities to share practices, tools and analytics across Vancouver, EA Bucharest and the rest of EA.

Your primary People Management responsibilities will be:
• Mentor and support other leaders across all disciplines; build and mentor teams.
• Identify resourcing needs, guide and develop changes to talent, skills and practices to accomplish operational and strategic goals.
• Coordinate talent management and succession planning.
• Monitor and evolve talent skill mix, using training and active recruitment plans and strategies.
• Promote a culture of diversity and inclusion.

Experiences and Capabilities:
• 5+ years project management or team leadership experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing people, including managing managers
• 3+ years of experience leading and growing large multi-discipline teams.
• 3+ years of experience with automated testing.
• 1+ years experience with Continuous Delivery or Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.
• Excellent partner management skills.
• Understand software quality assurance and software development practices.
• Project management skills.
• Education requirement University degree Bachelors or equivalent professional experience.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjq412-52-14-224-197-42 in your application.