filler

Development Director

Location: Shanghai, China

Notice

This position is no longer open.

Requisition Number: 171890

Position Title: DD II

External Description:

Report to Studio Director of EA Create Shanghai.

The Create studio is looking for a skilled, energetic and fun loving individual to join our leadership team and help create EA’s next big AAA title. EA Create is a center for distributed development across EA’s game studios where we get to work on popular franchises such as Battlefield, Need for Speed, Plants vs. Zombies, EA Sports, Command and Conquer and many more. We strive to provide game studio partners with high quality art production solutions while focusing on refining and expanding our studio capabilities.

Similar to producer or project manager, a development director is in charge of making sure your team delivers their work on time and to quality. You will be the main communication conduit to the game teams in understanding project requirements, coordinating project resources, managing development schedules, identifying and resolving risks and most importantly, executing to plan.

This role will be based in Shanghai and we are willing to relocate the right candidate. If you are looking for an adventure in the wild wild East, Shanghai is the place for you! Our office is located minutes away from the heart of downtown Shanghai where the city’s full range of culinary delights, culture sites and amazing nightlife awaits you.

Our leadership team is composed of experienced game developers from all over the world. We are an international group and we aim to create a fun work culture and environment worthy of a top notch global game company. We actively promote staff-driven culture initiatives such as photography club, bike riding club, poker nights, table top games, monthly happy hour etc. as a way to improve inter-studio communication and relationships between project teams.

Responsibilities Include

  • Responsible for creating and validating a project schedule that meets the requirements of the game team; discuss and create consensus on project resource requirements, workflow and milestones; establish WGLL (What Good Looks Like), identify key stakeholders for regular communications and check-ins;
  • Prioritize tasks to minimize bottlenecks while ensuring the production pipeline matches with the needs of the game studios;
  • Identify project risks through regular monitoring of production status, team morale and communication channels; call out project risks and create mitigation plans before they become an issue;
  • Managing through change request process by clearly communicating to project stakeholders the nature of the change request, the cost of changes and the prioritization of the changes;
  • Provide leadership and mentorship to team members through regular 1:1s and weekly team meetings;
  • Identify and mitigate attrition risks;
  • Reward and recognize top performers through quarterly team performance review, promotions and salary adjustments while identifying and assisting low performers in improving their capabilities;
  • Discuss and provide career path for team members, identify training courses and seek opportunities to assign team members challenging assignments to continuously improve their skills;

Qualifications

  • 10+ years total of game development experience with 4 years in project management and 3 years in managing a development team;
  • Strong communication skills across all levels of an organization including negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution;
  • PMP Certification an asset;
  • Fluent in English and Mandarin;
  • Experience in managing an Asian team is a big plus;
  • Experience in distributed development is a big plus;

City:

State:

Community / Marketing Title: Development Director

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

EEOText: 关于 EA 在 Electronic Arts,我们的宗旨是“激励世界,同享乐游”。我们让兼具创意、创新和激情的人才共聚一堂,为世界各地的亿万名玩家创造非凡的全新游戏体验。我们知道我们的长处在于员工的多样性。我们保证员工处于包容的文化之中,为其提供学习和领导的机会,让其从事职业生涯中最有影响力、最有价值的工作。 我们把我们的员工放在首位。我们为员工提供全面的、着重于健康和福祉的福利保障,以满足您的需求,并帮助您平衡您的职业生涯和个人生活。我们提供充满活力和共同协作的工作环境,您可通过我们的员工资源小组进行联系和贡献,享受带薪休假、产假和育儿假来平衡工作与生活,另外还有免费的电子游戏等更多福利! Electronic Arts 是一个机会平等的雇主。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、退伍军人身份或其他任何受法律保护的特征等因素的影响。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。

Days Open: 212

Can this position be remote?: 0

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。

Click here to view our Data Privacy Policy.

google-site-verification: google7f7a22bb8fdf2c3d.html