Game Studio Development Manager (Hybrid)

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

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