BioWare: Senior Development Director

Requisition Number: 150519

Position Title: Sr DD

External Description:

At BioWare, our mission is to create worlds of adventure, conflict, and companionship that inspire you to become the hero of your story.  Our teams drive innovation using cutting-edge tech and tools such as the Frostbite engine and collaborate with thousands of world-class developers across EA’s network of studios.  We are passionate about games and their potential as a creative medium to reach and inspire people through emotion, artistry, and engaging storytelling.  If you share this passion, this is an amazing opportunity to help shape the next generation of gaming.

Who You Are: 

We are looking for a talented person who is passionate about gaming to provide team leadership within our BioWare Edmonton studio

 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the operational aspects of the game development, including establishing development framework, reporting, risk management, resource management and budget.
• Responsible for building and managing a empowered development team; supporting onboarding, retention, coaching and mentoring staff. 
• Work with the project leadership to define the execution strategy and key deliverables against milestones.
• Utilize best practices in organizational structure and processes that support delivery of high quality work on time and on budget.
• Foster an engaging, fulfilling and fun working environment
• Help the team focus on priorities: help the team break down and solve complex problems.
• Develop, maintain and publish project KPI’s that track project quality, delivery and predictability.
• Collaborate with cross functional team members and key stakeholders.

 

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing large complex technology projects involving cross functional teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• This role requires highly developed relationship building skills and the ability to establish credibility and influence within BioWare and centralized EA groups.
• The successful candidate will have in-depth knowledge of game operations acquired from a minimum of 10+ years’ experience in project management on AAA game franchises or similar software development projects.
• Experience with Agile project management principles and practices is an asset.

 

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

The opportunity to work and learn from a world-class games studio making world-class games. We are a culture that thrives off creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

 

More about our location: http://careers.ea.com/our-locations/edmonton

 

Contact: Shanda Wood: shandaw@bioware.com

 

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

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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: 90

Can this position be remote?:

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