Development Director

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

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Requisition Number: 158916

Position Title: DD I

External Description:

We are EA Frostbite

We entertain millions of people across the globe by creating the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. Making great experiences is challenging, which is why we employ creative and passionate people.

The Opportunity Ahead

The Development Director (DD) provides leadership to the Quality Verification team within Frostbite team. Responsibilities include managing task goals and assignments, assessing risk and managing project scope.

DD manages other QA leaders and partners with Development Directors and Product Owners on the development team. A DD oversees the professional and career advancement of their direct reports. DD collaborates with development teams and other studio teams to manage the end-to-end test effort of their product and mitigate risks along the way. DDs are the keepers of the QA project schedule and help move the QA team from one project phase to the next while ensuring a focus on customer service and communication.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership:

Contribute to and embody EA and QA organizational strategies, instilling shared values and focus areas within their teams. Be a translator to highlight relevance and benefits to their reports
Create productive working relationships with other discipline leaders within the studio to increase goal agreement and represent their team to studio leadership
Implement process improvements: shapes project-wide processes across multiple projects
Communicate within project and to external groups: adapts content and detail to match audience, collaborates outside of project team and share best practices, communicates to and on behalf of the team, speaks with impact
Build teams by inspiring, motivating, and energizing: creates a structure, defines an organization that meets project goals, inspires the creation of the team culture

Execution:

Solid project management skills: collaborates with others to establish project goals including scope, quality, and timeframe; create flexible project plan, including requirement definition, task definition, talent assignment, and capacity planning;
Direct team and managers to completion, modifying project plans ; communicate project plan and progress to team and above
Produce overall schedule for QA project, including interaction with external EA groups
Manage project resources: Assess skills requirements for current project and next; recognize latent internal talent to develop into stretch roles
Manage risk formally: solves root problems over multiple products; solve chronic problems by implementing corrective action plans; responsible for risk assessment and mitigation strategy
Design test strategies using a variety of techniques and tools: selects the appropriate methods based on defined goals including cost, efficiency, and balancing available resources, uses information and business systems to support planning and tracking of activities.

Quality Management:

Emphasize quality results, not just task completion
Provide options and make decisions around the balance between quality, time, and cost
Pushes for efficiencies, helps establish quality goals, inspires the quality goal to completion

Required Experience:

Challenge and develop talent
Minimum 3 years in a leadership position
Identify and recruit essential talent based on staffing requirements; solid understanding of candidate hiring practices including interviewing techniques
Familiarity with the software project lifecycle

What's in it for you? Glad you asked!

At Frostbite we take care of our staff and have done so during our steady growth over the last decade. In addition to a great benefits package we offer our employees 10 EA games per year, massage every three weeks, a variety of sports activities (yoga and cross fit to name a few) and health care allowance. We have a collective bargain agreement with Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer and also provide our employees with occupational pension.

We value our employees’ personal lives. A good work-life balance is something we practice and maintain even during high-intensity periods.

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Company Profile:

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: 131

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