Development Director

Job Description

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

Industrial Toys, creators of Midnight Star and Midnight Star: Renegade, have taken on our next mission of creating the newest FPS title for mobile: Battlefield. Building on hard-won knowledge as an indie studio, we've joined forces with EA to work towards our vision of what it means to be 'Mobile To The Core!' If you're interested in creating new experiences to reach mobile players around the world, join up today!

Development Directors are the keepers of the project schedule and help move the development team from one milestone to the next while ensuring a focus on quality, collaboration and communication. You will partner with producers, designers, engineers, and artists all over the studio to ensure that they are managing the project on time, to quality, and within budget for the client teams we work with. The Core Technology Development Director coordinates a variety of engineering disciplines - including tools, automation, server, and engine - within our core technology team. You will oversee the important technological infrastructure underlying Battlefield Mobile and will need to coordinate efforts and balance the priorities for engineering needs across the project. You will report to the Lead Development Director.

POSITION SPECIFIC:
• Responsible for a feature development team or teams within Industrial Toys
• Maintain studio's established scrum ceremonies and handle all prep-work to make those ceremonies successful.
• Ensure teams are working towards established sprint priorities and Support the studio's strategic goals.
• Work with Producers to establish backlog priorities.
• Anticipate risks, identify mitigation strategies, and communicate both across the studio.
• Coordinate efforts with external teams in the greater EA organization.
• Provide long-term forecasts for development and build team roadmaps.
• Ensure that team commitments are delivered on time and at the required quality level.
• Ensure that teams are operating in a manner consistent with established protocols.
• Coach teams in the what/how/why's of scrum, agile, Jira, and Confluence.
• Coach junior project managers.
• Ensure Jira and Confluence are up-to-date and consistently reflect the current status of the project.
• Report project metrics to Lead Development Director
• Identify areas where the current process is not optimal and recommend improvements.
• Lead scrum teams with cultures of trust and collaboration.
• Communicate and track cross-team dependencies.
• Quickly and effectively identify and resolve conflict.

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
• 7 years project management experience, including 1-3 shipped titles in a project management role.
• Experience managing teams in a scrum/agile context
• Strong negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution skills
• Deep knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office, and the G-Suite

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4j897-18-191-216-163-42 in your application.