Director Of Product Development

Job Description

Senior DD

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connection of millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. At the heart of EA SPORTS is the FIFA franchise. EA SPORTS FIFA is the world's #1 best-selling video game with over 200M engaged players across multiple platforms, including console, PC, and mobile.

Innovation, passion, and teamwork is at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for the brightest talent so we can continue to create experiences that connect with millions of hearts and minds the world over.

The Role
EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connecting millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. The EA SPORTS UFC franchise offers the electrifying spectacle and entertainment of MMA for over 20 million players across the globe, delivering 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.

Responsibilities:
• Be responsible for the full operational aspects of the game development, including establishing development framework, reporting, risk management, capacity planning, resource management and budget.
• Work with the project leadership to define the strategy to execute against milestones and key deliverables.
• Solve problems, balance priorities, and find creative solutions to achieve results.
• Foster an engaging, fulfilling and fun working environment that is inclusive and diverse.
• Be responsible for coaching, mentoring, and career development of your team. Lead project managers at all levels of your team.
• Develop, maintain, and publish project KPI's that track project quality, delivery and predictability.
• Establish regular communication with the team, partners, and key stakeholders to provide project status updates.
• Ensure the team has the best organizational structure, processes and practices that allow them to produce high quality work efficiently on time and on budget.

Qualifications:
• 10+ years of operations and leadership experience with strong leadership skills with the ability to challenge and influence a variety of stakeholders.
• The successful candidate will have in-depth knowledge of project operations acquired from a minimum of 7+ years' experience in project management on AAA game franchises or similar software development projects.
• Experience managing a large project or multiple projects ideally using a variety of project management methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and possesses strong emotional intelligence skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - able to work on complex problems where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwyvqp-3-141-31-209-42 in your application.