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Development Manager - Animation (Contract)

Multiple Locations: Toronto, ON, Canada • Orlando, FL, USA • Los Angeles, CA, USA • Edmonton, AB, Canada • Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Requisition Number: 173486

Position Title: DM

External Description:

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

EA Create is a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to achieve outstanding visuals, audio, and technology. Our teams comprise of artists, engineers, technicians, designers, and development directors. Worldwide, we combine our teams to form a global group of extraordinary individuals fuelled by imagination and a unified passion for creating amazing visuals, sound, and experiences. We are a diverse team, unified through collaboration, culture and craft.

The Challenge ahead:

A Development Manager can manage a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA, and other production staff. They are the keepers of the project schedule and help move the development team from one project phase to the next, while ensuring collaboration and communication are consistent throughout the project. As a development manager, you will ensure that project deliverables are on time, to quality, and within budget.

What You'll do:

  • You will lead and evolve the team; identify resourcing needs, encourage the removal of obstacles that prevent the team from completing deliveries on time, to quality and within budget.
  • Develop working relationships with immediate team and other external partner teams that have dependencies or an impact on the completion of the project.
  • Communicate with the project team and coordinate requirements with external partners.
  • Provide updates to department leadership and escalating issues and concerns.
  • Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing team at a project-level.
  • You will mitigate risk for assigned scope whilst partnering with our production team, to manage scope and quality.
  • Work with department leadership in the creation of written status/risk reports for the project.
  • Establish an overall project schedule based on the individual task estimates for production.
  • Determine the resource requirements to meet the task requirements.
  • Manage a project budget, determine task requirements, and assign tasks to team resources.

What We're Looking For:

  • 5 years project management or team leadership experience.
  • Education requirement University degree Bachelors or equivalent professional experience.
  • 1+ years of experience in different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.

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Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 67

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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