Associate Development Manager - EA Sports FC

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 3 weeks/year

Sick time 10 days/year

EI/QPIP top-up benefits

Extended health/dental/vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

EA SPORTS FC team in Vancouver is seeking a Project Manager to oversee a multi-disciplinary production staff, ensuring on-time delivery within scope and budget. The role partners with Producers and Technical Directors to maintain quality and collaboration, operating in a hybrid model with three days on-site at EA Vancouver.

The ideal candidate has 1+ years in project management within a production lifecycle and experience in Scrum/Agile environments, with a university degree or equivalent

Qualifications

• 1+ years of project management experience with production lifecycles.
• Experience in Scrum/Agile software development environment.
• University degree or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA and other production staff.
• Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals, achieving deliverables through the team.
• Collaborate with cross-team disciplines to manage delivery of dependencies.
• Mitigate risk for the assigned scope.
• Partner with production and tech to manage scope and quality.
• Use Jira to establish engagement processes, ensuring workflows are defined and staff are trained.
• Establish an overall project schedule based on task estimates.
• Determine resource requirements, establish a project budget, and assign tasks.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation, and prioritize tradeoffs.
• Ensure the project meets Studio specifications through status reporting and capacity planning.

Skills

Project management

Scrum/Agile

Team mediation

Conflict resolution

Education

University degree

Tools

Jira

Job description

About the Role

The role manages a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA and other production staff. It acts as keeper of the project schedule, helping move the development team from one project phase to the next while ensuring collaboration and communication. The role partners with Producers and Technical Directors to ensure projects are managed on time, to quality, and within budget. It sits within the EA SPORTS FC team, a global community of developers, and works hybrid three days per week onsite at EA Vancouver.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA and other production staff.
• Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals, achieving project deliverables through managing the team at project level (e.g. franchise-wide level).
• Collaborate with cross-team disciplines to manage delivery of dependencies.
• Mitigate risk for assigned scope.
• Partner with production and tech to manage scope and quality.
• Use Jira to establish engagement processes, ensuring workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained in expectations.
• Establish an overall project schedule based on individual task estimates for production.
• Determine resource requirements to meet task requirements, establish a project budget, and assign tasks to team resources.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritisation, and make tradeoffs.
• Ensure the project meets Studio specifications through regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 1+ years of Project Management experience with production lifecycles, processes and project planning.
• Experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment.
• Experience working with expansive teams, mediation and conflict resolution.
• University degree, bachelor's or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.

Workplace

• Hybrid 3 days/onsite (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) at EA Vancouver.

Salary

• Pay offered will be determined based on relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).
• If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits.
• Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

Benefits & Perks

• Vacation: 3 weeks per year to start.
• Sick time: 10 days per year.
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave).
• Extended health/dental/vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.

About the Company

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment, connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games. The team pushes visual boundaries and creates leading edge content across multiple disciplines, serving a broad portfolio of FC titles across multiple platforms for hundreds of millions of sports fans worldwide.