Development Director

Requisition Number: 170075

Position Title: DD I

External Description:

The Challenge Ahead

Reporting to the Senior Technical Program Manager (Development Director II), a Technical Program Manager for the Mobile Quality Engineering organization is the keeper of the program schedules project schedule and helps move the studio development teams from one project phase to the next while ensuring collaboration and communication with their company partners and customers. You will partner with Technical Directors, other Development Directors, and senior leadership members across multiple studios and multiple disciplines (engineering, quality assurance, art/tech art) to ensure that the project completes on time, to spec, to quality, and within budget. You will also develop evolving development processes across this whole, global, organization.

Responsibilities:

• In an Agile environment, manages a development team(s) of software engineers and software engineers-in-test and coordinates Scrum teams to meet their sprint goals, leading and organizing resources in planning and tracking their work.
• In projects with multiple customers, act as the Product Owner to improve requirements, while ensuring clear identification of ROIs across all asks.
• Collaborate with other leaders to manage requirements, risks, and changes by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly. Most importantly, secure and track commitments.
• Establish and track important metrics and quality and performance indicators to promote the execution of program deliverables.
• Improve our process improvements across multiple teams and functions with a focus on reducing manual test efforts through automation.
• Be involved with financial planning and headcount allocation.

Business Expertise:

• Work with engineering and business owners to establish program requirements, set priorities, and establish scope, which includes defining the roadmap and long-term strategy of the teams that you are partnering with.
• Encourage activity across multiple business organizations with the ability to create agreement through collaboration and negotiation.
• Provide regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.
• Influence program decisions to align with higher company programs.
• Determine engagement practices, ensuring all workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff is trained in expectations on the workflow.
• Bring a customer-first focus with and adapt to evolving needs.
• Help promote resourcing, hiring, performance reviews, team building, and team health engagement.
• Respond to team health metrics to ensure minimal attrition.
• Foster an engaging and fulfilling work environment.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritization, make trade-offs, balances need versus technical constraints.

Qualifications:

• At a minimum: 3 years of technical project management, project lead experience, or team management.
• Bachelor's degree in any number of related fields including Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Math, or related field.
• Excellent knowledge of product life cycle, software development lifecycle, and project planning.
• Experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment.
• Experience establishing project plans and project budgets, determining task requirements, assigning tasks, and implementing operational changes.
• Proficient in tools such as Jira, Perforce, and Confluence.
• Experience working with broad, diverse teams and leading teams that are multi-location and remote.
• Mediation toward aligning sometimes completing priorities.

Bonuses:

• A Master's degree in any number of related fields including Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Math, or related field
• Certified PMP
• Experience managing iOS and Android platform development programs
• Certified Scrum Master
• Experience working on technical projects within common game development engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine
• Automated testing experiences.

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Company Profile:

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Days Open: 84

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA 是一个奉行机会均等的雇主。 所有招聘决定均不考虑种族、肤色、国籍、血统、生理性别、社会性别、性别认同或表达、性向、年龄、遗传信息、宗教信仰、残障状况、医疗状况、怀孕状况、婚姻状况、家庭状况或退伍军人身份等因素的影响。 EA 还会遵照相关法律，为符合条件的残障个体改善工作环境。