Development Director / Ops Lead
Posizione: Redwood City, CA, USA
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Requisition Number: 151258
Position Title: DD II
External Description:
Development Director / Ops Lead
We are looking for an experienced Development Director to join our team in Redwood City, California. If you are passionate about gaming and leading a dedicated team, come work with us to run one of our longest live services team with the Pogo Studio.
As a Development Director, you will drive planning and execution on cross-functional development teams to support platform development and a series of live games including the building & shipping of content with both internal and external teams. You will lead the team in partnership with a Producer. This is a key leadership role that involves a high level of interaction with team members, peers, and product leadership. Development Directors focus on outcomes, solving problems, and optimizing for efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for the full operational aspects of the game development, including identifying best practices, establishing development framework, reporting, risk management, resource management and budget.
- Responsible for building and leading a strong production team; oversee recruiting, onboarding, retention, coaching and mentoring staff.
- Collaborate with studio leadership to define the strategy to execute against milestones and key deliverables.
- Ensure the teams have the best organizational structure, processes and practices that allow them to produce high quality work efficiently on time and on budget.
- Drive efficiencies and new ways of thinking with a goal of reducing waste and increasing predictability.
- Foster an engaging, fulfilling and fun working environment.
- Help the team focus on the critical few: filters issues based on a clear understanding of the studio strategies and objectives, and help the team break down complex problems.
- Develop, maintain and publish project KPI’s that track project quality, delivery and predictability.
Leadership
- Build a resilient, capable team which embraces accountability, seeks opportunities to maximize their potential, and takes pride in their accomplishments.
- Build an effective partnership with the Studio General Manager, establish trust and credibility with Studio leadership and staff
- Collaborate with other key studio leaders to define the organization’s vision, mission, and strategy; develop and drive plans to achieve those objectives
- Strengthen the Development Director discipline through hiring, training, coaching, and mentoring
Operations
- Create and own the studio product roadmap, accounting for live operations and title planning
- Develop KPIs to track project delivery, quality, financial performance, and risk
- Identify and manage operational risk
- Define and implement standardized operating procedures and communication plans
- Coordinate with supporting organizations such as Finance, Central Technology, Core QA, Recruiting, HR, and IT
- Identify, assign, and track development and operational issues to completion
- Solve complex problems and balance priorities across multiple disciplines and teams
Financial Management & Business Development
- Manage the studio P&L, including operating budgets, revenue projection, operating and resourcing
- Partner with finance manager to create forecasts and maintain long-term financial plans
- Create and manage plans for:
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- staffing and central services
- hardware & software replacements and upgrades
- Supervise budget management and approve expenditures for studio
- Identify financial risks and opportunities
Development
- Drive project planning and execution through Lead Development Directors, hold teams accountable for meeting milestone commitments and quality targets
- Create, own, and improve all development processes, including effective implementation of agile methods.
- Create and validate project plans for each of the studio teams, including scope, schedule, dependencies, and risk
- Coordinate external dependencies with supporting organizations across the company.
- Establish and operate a system to measure and track quality.
- Manage development budgets including outsourcing, temp hiring, and central services.
- Identify, assign, and track development and organizational issues to completion.
- Keep the team informed on development results, schedule, and changes.
- Report status at regular intervals, escalate urgent issues in a timely manner.
- Ensure the team is trained on the necessary skills, processes, and best practices.
- Solve problems, balance priorities, and find creative solutions which achieve results.
- Seek knowledge and apply it to improve the organization.
Qualifications
- 8-10 years of project management experience in the software industry.
- 5-7 years in a team leadership role, strong people management skills.
- 3+ years of operational leadership experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Mastery of managing multiple projects with Agile project management principles and practices.
- In-depth experience with project management tools such as JIRA or Hansoft.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - able to work on complex problems where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors and judgement.
- Strong negotiation, change management, and conflict resolution skills.
- Strong relationship building skills and the ability to establish credibility and influence within centralized EA groups.
- High degree of initiative, takes opportunities to make improvements.
- Expertise using Excel to track, model, and analyze data to support business strategy
- Expertise presenting high-impact plans and recommendations to executives
- Ownership mentality: responsible, invested in outcomes
- Integrity
Bonuses
- Platform/Game development experience (especially full cycle experience on shipped titles).
- Experience in managing live services and remote development
- History of driving continuous improvements
- Previous Development Director experience at EA or in similar roles in other companies
- Project management certifications or training.
- Master’s degree in a related field.
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Electronic Arts Inc. è un'azienda di software di intrattenimento interattivo leader globale. EA offre giochi, contenuti e servizi online per console collegate ad internet, personal computer, cellulari e tablet.
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EA promuove le pari opportunità. Qualsiasi decisione di impiego viene fatta senza discriminazione di razza, colore, nazionalità, origini, sesso, genere, identità o espressione di genere, orientamento sessuale, età, informazione genetica, religione, invalidità, condizione medica, gravidanza, stato civile, stato familiare o anzianità. EA rende accessibile il posto di lavoro per gli individui diversamente abili, come indicato dalla legge.