Senior Development Director

Job Description

SENIOR DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Ripple Effect, an evolution of Battlefield's DICE LA, is a Los Angeles and Vancouver-based game studio on a mission to build community-first experiences through continuous innovation and boundary breaking technology.
Our Values: We believe in an honest and transparent environment, where developers grow in our crafts. We value bold risk-taking followed by excellence through iteration. We seek developers with diverse experiences who will enrich our studio creativity.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Development Director who is passionate about both process and gaming, to provide daily production leadership to the project and its teams. You will manage project and resource planning, balance scope with capacity, track progress, implement and improve processes, mentor people, and manage risks and mitigation. You are a master of content pipelines and feature development. You understand the iterative nature of creative processes and how to empower them. You know how to build healthy, high functioning relationships with external vendors. You are a force multiplier for the team.

You will report to the VP and GM for the studio, based in our studio in Los Angeles. We are considering on-site and hybrid working options, and welcome full-time remote candidates who are within the United States or Canada to apply.

Responsibilities:
• Establishing direction and strategy for a project or multiple teams while ensuring alignment with internal and external leadership
• Monitoring and adjusting capacity plans for a project or multiple teams to address skill gaps and identify funding needs
• Owning the budget for a project or multiple teams and partnering with finance to maintain a healthy P&L
• Being the point of escalation for conflict management and problem solving
• Partnering with DDs at all levels to train them and provide mentorship
• Establishing and maintaining team health standards through team leaders
• Identifying and implementing process improvement initiatives across full projects or multiple teams
• Approving plans, schedules, and status reports across the project or multiple teams
• Anticipating and solving studio-wide dependencies between the project and external groups
• Using change management processes to effectively communicate and measure effectiveness of project wide change

Qualifications:
• 7+ years working as a project manager, 5+ years of experience working in a AAA game development
• Proven experience with releasing multiple AAA titles while seeing them through all phases of the development life cycle
• Experience managing internal and external teams - always knowing the status of the project and can visualize that status for any audience

Next Steps

Apply online with a resume.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES
• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):
º $167,200 - $258,050
• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):
º $155,900 - $258,050
• Jersey City, NJ :
º $155,900 - $258,050
• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):
º $155,900 - $212,800
• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):
º $155,900 - $241,800

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby (following 1 year of service), medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r702x8-18-117-196-217-42 in your application.