Development Director

Requisition Number: 164217

Position Title: DD I

External Description:

We are looking for an experienced Development Director to join our new mobile team focused on building strategy games such as Star Wars: Rise to Power. You will report to our studio's Director of Production.

Role

As a Development Director you manage development execution on a diverse team to build and launch a AAA mobile game. This is a leadership role that involves a high level of interaction with team members and team leadership. Development Directors focus on project management, progress tracking, and risk mitigation with Producers to produce predictable results that ensure feature quality and stakeholder agreement.

Responsibilities

Leadership

• You will inspire and motivate the team through personal example, enthusiasm, and commitment
• You allow the team to embrace accountability, find opportunities to maximize their potential, and champion their accomplishments
• Build a strong partnership with Production team
• You will establish trust and credibility with discipline leadership

Project Management

• Manage execution from concept to live, accountable for meeting milestone commitments and quality targets
• Collaborate with product owners and leadership to guide the product roadmap at both sprint and milestone levels , and provide project status reports
• Manage the schedule and project resources by running scrum, monitoring sprint metrics, and coordinating retrospectives
• Facilitate cross department communications with team members to determine content/tech/feature requirements and desired player experience
• Support team leadership in establishing product goals, quality targets and achieving agreement
• Manage live services, including play tests during development
• Track production and operational issues to completion
• Keep the team informed on development results, changes and risks
• Ensure the team is trained on the necessary skills, processes, and best practices
• Balance priorities, and find creative solutions to achieve results
• Seek knowledge and apply it to improve our studio
• Familiar with SCRUM, Waterfall, Kanban

Requirements

• 4+ years of production experience on software development projects
• Experience shipping successful games in a producer or project management role
• Experienced in determining task dependencies, priorities, and assignments
• Evaluate development risks and create mitigation and contingency plans
• Understand mobile game application market and business models
• Expertise using production tools and multimedia software applications
• Excellent conceptual and technical writing skills
• Change management, and conflict resolution skills
• High degree of initiative, takes opportunities to make improvements
• Responsible for and, invested in outcomes
• Integrity

Bonuses

• Experience managing mobile game app development or managing live services
• Knowledge of strategy or MMO game genres
• Engineering project management experience

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.は、インタラクティブ・エンターテイメント・ソフトウェアの世界的大手企業です。 EAは、インターネットに接続されたコンソール、パソコン、携帯電話、タブレットに対してゲーム、コンテンツおよびオンラインサービスを提供しています。

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Days Open: 63

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無は考慮されません。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。