BioWare: Development Manager

Requisition Number: 158962

Position Title: DM

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.

What the Development Manager will do at BioWare:

As a Development Manager, you’ll run planning and execution on a cross-functional development team with multiple external partners to build and ship updates for an ongoing live service. This is a leadership role that involves daily interaction with team members, centralized EA departments, the project licensor, and project leadership. Working closely with the Lead Development Director, you’ll guide the team to meet milestones and quality targets through all phases of development. Every day will look a little different but will include coordinating development efforts across the company, obtaining licensor approvals, and seeking out process gaps and enhancements that improve the way we work.

Responsibilities

• Develops project schedules that maximize feature quality and scope within the resource, financial, and licensor constraints.

• Supports Scrum teams in meeting their sprint goals and ensures that tasks are properly tracked, tagged, and estimated.
• With the Lead Development Director, continually balances trade-offs between scope, resources, and time to mitigate project risk and deliver updates that meet the quality expectations of a BioWare game.
• Fosters and maintains relationships with key external partners (e.g. licensor, certain EA centralized groups) and guides the work required from them to publish each update.
• Keeps the development team and external partners informed of project goals, schedules, and deliverables.
• Documents, communicates, and administers project processes. Identifies opportunities for improvement.
• Forms close working relationships with discipline leads and individual contributors.
• Establishes trust and credibility with project and studio leadership.
• Stays current with industry project management standards. Shares knowledge and identifies opportunities for improvement within the project and studio.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software project management experience, with 3+ years in a leadership role.
• A thorough foundation in project management methodologies and process frameworks (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Scrum).
• Exceptional written and verbal communication.
• A high degree of emotional intelligence and demonstrates this in every interaction.
• Ability to maintain composure under pressure and rally multiple teams to achieve a common goal.
• Highly motivated and proactively resolves problems with minimal oversight. Seeks guidance when appropriate.
• Experience with industry project management tools (e.g. Hansoft, Jira, Confluence, Office suite).
• Excellent analytical skills. Comfortable modeling and analyzing data.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience

Bonuses

• Full-cycle game development experience, especially on a live service title.
• Experience using game engine tools and version control software.
• Experience using a scripting language to speed up or automate tasks.
• Project management certifications.

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off of creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

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Electronic Arts Inc.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

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Days Open: 10

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.