Development Director

Requisition Number: 157532

Position Title: DD I

External Description:

Development Director, Quality Engineering

We are EA

And we make games – how cool is that? In fact, we entertain millions of people across the globe with the most amazing and immersive interactive software in the industry. But making games is hard work. That’s why we employ the most creative, passionate people in the industry.

The Challenge Ahead

This is an essential leadership role in the Quality Engineering organization and offers a recognized expert the opportunity to lead the development of a portfolio of project or studio-wide tools and automation solutions to support our mission statement. We ensure predictability in development by guiding quality by design.

As a Development Director (DD), you’ll promote collaboration, planning and reporting between our Quality Engineering Technical Director(s), our development team Technical Director(s) and Quality Assurance Leadership on our tools and automation strategy. This strategy revolves around the reality of triple A game development in the current market environment; growing complexity and size of the titles while striving to minimize development costs to keep prices in line with market expectations. We both aim to reduce the cost of development and quality assurance and ensure those same partners provide a first class experience to our consumers.

You’ll lead the team to meet milestones and quality targets, creating and improving processes, coordinating with departments across the company, tracking and resolving issues, and trying to find opportunities for improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee process, schedule and quality aspects of the Quality Engineering deliverables including maintaining/establishing the development framework, reporting, risk management, capacity planning, resource management and budget
• Work with leadership to establish the strategy to meet milestones and important deliverables
• Ensure the team has the best organizational structure and processes that allow them to produce high-quality content on time and on budget
• Improve the efficiency and create new ways of thinking with a goal of reducing waste and increasing predictability
• Foster an engaging, fulfilling and fun working environment
• Filters issues based on a clear understanding of the studio objectives, and helps the team break down complex problems
• Develop project KPI’s that track project quality, delivery and predictability
• Ensure communication with team and important partners to provide project status updates
• Initiate or implement development process improvements to achieve efficiencies
• Direct development strategies and models to support near and long-range plans & innovation
• Monitor and adjust capacity plans

Key Attributes

• In-depth knowledge of software development operations acquired from 8 years or more of relevant experience
• 8 years leadership experience (managing technical staff)
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent domain

We Thought You Might Also Want to Know

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages; and of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer great compensation packages and a culture that values creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

Don’t Just Play It – Create It!

It’s not easy building the world’s best digital playground. It’s hair-standing-on-end exhilarating. It’s down-in-the-trenches challenging. It’s stroke-of-brilliance-at-midnight creative. It’s you—taking risks, challenging yourself, pursuing ideas, changing the way millions of people do something they love: play. In an industry that’s changing every day, EA is positioned for growth thanks to smart business plans, strategic acquisitions, and most importantly, our creative people around the world who gather each day to unite the world through play. We take that last part very seriously, so if what you’re reading excites you as much as it does us, apply today.

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Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

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EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.