Development Manager - EA Sports FC

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

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks vacation

Sick time 10 days per year

Top-up EI/QPIP for new child leave (12

Top-up EI/QPIP for new child leave (12

Parental/adoption leave top-ups

Extended health, dental and vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

EA SPORTS Vancouver is seeking a Development Manager to lead the game development team, ensuring features are delivered on time and within budget. You will oversee the project schedule, hire, and manage staff to maintain high quality across FC titles on multiple platforms.

The role sits in a global EA SPORTS FC team, collaborating across disciplines to push visual boundaries and deliver leading content for millions of fans worldwide. Hybrid work in Vancouver is offered.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Project Management or Project Lead experience.
• Experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment.
• Proven track record using Jira and Jaas to manage concurrent projects, with dashboards, workflows and automation when required.
• Experience working with expansive teams, mediation and conflict resolution.

Responsibilities

• Manage a development team generally consisting of Software Engineers and external partners.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, prioritise projects, and balance needs against technical constraints.
• Focus on the immediate team, identify issues, and propose solutions to improve efficiency.
• Ensure project setups meet Studio specifications through status reporting and capacity planning.
• Establish engagement processes in Jira so workflows are defined, documented, and staff trained.
• Partner with Production, QV and Art Directors to ensure game quality targets are met.

Skills

Project management

Agile / Scrum

Team leadership

Conflict resolution

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Game Development / Business / 3D Arts

Tools

Jira

Jaas

Job description

About the Role

Reporting to a Development Director, the Development Manager (DM) within the game development team ensures the delivery of game features on time and within budget, overseeing the project schedule, hiring, and management of the team to achieve a high standard. The role sits within the EA SPORTS FC team, a global community of developers serving a broad portfolio of FC titles across multiple platforms and crafting games for hundreds of millions of sports fans worldwide. The team pushes visual boundaries and creates leading-edge content across multiple disciplines.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a development team generally consisting of Software Engineers and external partners.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, prioritise projects, make tradeoffs, balance needs against technical constraints, and promote initial partner deployments.
• Focus on the immediate team, identify team issues, suggest solutions related to execution goals, and identify task-related processes to improve efficiency.
• Ensure each project setup meets the specifications of the Studio through regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.
• Using Jira, establish engagement processes so that all workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained in expectations.
• Partner with Production, QV and Art Directors to ensure game quality targets are met.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 3+ years of Project Management or Project Lead experience with production lifecycles, processes and project planning.
• Bachelor's degree in any number of related fields, including Computer Science, Game Development, Business or 3D Arts.
• Experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment.
• Proven track record using Jira and Jaas to manage concurrent projects, with the ability to create dashboards, workflows and automation when required.
• Experience working with expansive teams, mediation and conflict resolution.

Preferred Skills

• Experience managing outsource vendors and remote teams is considered an asset.
• Experience in feature or asset production is beneficial.

Workplace

• Hybrid working: 3 days per week onsite (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) at EA Vancouver.

Benefits & Perks

• Vacation of 3 weeks per year to start.
• 10 days per year of sick time.
• 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 and vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programmes.

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.