Outsourcing Development Manager

Requisition Number: 153093

Position Title: DM

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Outsourcing Development Manager

Full Time Role

At EA, we thrive on outrageous thinking. It’s the fuel that inspires the best games in the world. We’re innovators and great storytellers. But it’s not just about amazing your peers – it’s about amazing yourself. Take risks. Collaborate with brilliant minds and dare to dream big. Together, we can change the way millions play every day.

Seeking an Outsourcing Development Manager for The Sims 4 franchise.

What You Will Do:

• Build and maintain effective schedules to ensure achievement of overall project development milestones.
• Help plan milestones and deliverables, tracks progress, drive for successful completion of commitments.
• Maintain regular communications within our dev teams, with outsourcing partners and key development stakeholders to ensure we hit our team goals.
• Look for ways to improve efficiency without compromising effectiveness and quality.
• Anticipate and escalate communications regarding problems and dev team roadblocks.
• Able to extract and use data to establish trends and create predictability in hitting key deliverables.
• Manage career development of direct reports, including development of individual development plans, and regular 1:1 meetings.

Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit:

• Effective Listener with the ability to actively understand established teams and developers.
• Strong communicator who is able to effectively communicate team and project goals in a clear, concise, and strategic manner.
• Able to interpret design documents and project schedules to establish and communicate scope.
• Strong people management skills including the ability to clearly communicate performance expectations, and provide regular feedback to improve employee performance; capable of managing performance and professional development of direct reports.
• A good understanding of game development, interdisciplinary dependencies, and associated development risks.
• Flexible in approach and able to adopt varying methods to achieve results in a quick-changing, dynamic environment.
• Minimum 4 years software development experience or other related experience; minimum 2 years project management experience.
• Outsourcing experience preferred. 

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 25

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.