Requisition Number: 176329

Position Title: DD II

External Description:

Industrial Toys, creators of Midnight Star and Midnight Star: Renegade, have taken on our next mission of creating the newest FPS title for mobile: Battlefield. Building on hard-won knowledge as an indie studio, we've joined forces with EA to work towards our vision of what it means to be "Mobile To The Core!" If you're interested in creating new experiences to reach mobile players around the world, join up today!

Development Directors are accountable for the project by tracking and solving blockers, work estimates and planning, along with scope capacity and schedule management. Development Directors play a vital role in successfully moving the development team from one milestone to the next while ensuring a strong focus on quality, collaboration and communication. They must partner closely with production pillar leads, product owners, producers, designers, engineers, and outsource partners. This includes within the studio and all over the country to ensure that they are managing the project on time, to quality, and within budget for the various teams we work with. The Development Director coordinates a variety of disciplines - art, design, engineering, quality assurance and outsource partners. This role oversees the vital success in building Battlefield Mobile and will need to coordinate efforts and balance the priorities for multiple disciplines.

POSITION SPECIFIC:

• • Accountable forTracking and solving blockers
  • Work estimates and planning
  • Scope capacity & Schedule Management
  • Teams are working towards sprint priorities
• Maintain studio's established scrum ceremonies and handle all prep-work to make those ceremonies successful
• Work collaboratively with Pillar Leads and Product Owners to establish backlog priorities
• Work with other pods to ensure that features cross pods are scheduled
• Coordinates outsource partners as needed
• Anticipate risks, identify mitigation strategies, and communicate both across the studio
• Coordinate efforts with external teams in the greater EA organization and external vendors
• Ensure that team commitments are delivered on time and at the required quality level
• Ensure that teams are operating in a manner consistent with established protocols
• Educate and coach teams in the what/how and why of scrum, agile, Jira, and Confluence
• Coach junior project managers
• Ensure Jira and Confluence are up-to-date and consistently reflect the current status of the project
• Report project metrics to Lead Development Director
• Identify areas where the current process is not optimal and recommend improvements
• Lead high performing scrum teams with strong cultures of trust and collaboration
• Communicate and track cross-team dependencies
• Quickly and effectively identify and resolve conflict
• Strong communicator, mediation and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to think outside the box in a challenging and ambiguous environment

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3-5 years project management experience, including 1-3 shipped titles in a project management role
• Gaming & Mobile experience is an asset
• Experience managing teams in a scrum/agile context, comfortable with a hybrid scrum environment
• High emotional intelligence
• Strong negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution skills
• Effective communication skills across all levels of an organization
• Deep knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office, MIRO and the G-Suite
• Strong aptitude for change, accompanied with change management skills, including getting buy in from the teams worked on

 

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range for your specific location.EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):
º $143,150 - $221,750
• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):
º $130,600 - $221,750
• Jersey City, NJ :
º $130,600 - $221,750
• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):
º $130,600 - $181,850
• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):
º $130,600 - $210,000

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby (following 1 year of service), medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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Company Profile:

Nous sommes une équipe internationale de spécialistes de la création, de la narration, de la technologie, de la génération d’expériences, de l’innovation et bien plus encore. Nous pensons que nos équipes doivent être aussi diversifiées que nos communautés afin de créer des jeux et des expériences inoubliables. Chez Electronic Arts, la seule limite est votre imagination.

EEOText: EA est un employeur qui offre l'égalité d'accès à l'emploi. Toutes les décisions d'emploi sont prises sans prendre en considération les critères de race, couleur de la peau, origine ethnique, descendance, sexe, genre, identité ou expressions de genre, orientation sexuelle, âge, de nature génétique, religion, invalidité, état de santé, grossesse, situation matrimoniale, situation familiale, état d'ancien combattant, ou encore toute autre caractéristique protégée par la loi. Nous tiendrons aussi compte des candidats qualifiés à l'emploi possédant un casier judiciaire, en vertu de la loi en vigueur. EA veille aussi à procéder à des aménagements spéciaux en milieu de travail pour les candidats qualifiés et présentant une invalidité, tel que requis par la loi en vigueur.

Days Open: 60

Can this position be remote?: 1

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À propos d'Electronic Arts

Toutes nos actions sont tendues vers le même objectif : transmettre l'envie de jouer. Au travers de nos jeux innovants, de nos services novateurs et de nos technologies de pointe, nous offrons des possibilités infinies à des millions de fans dans le monde entier.

 

Nous cherchons des personnes inclusives et collaboratives aux points de vue variés pour enrichir notre culture et nous stimuler. Grâce à notre programme d’avantages sociaux, nous adoptons une approche holistique centrée sur le bien-être physique, émotionnel, financier, professionnel et communautaire pour soutenir les membres de notre personnel à chaque chapitre de leur vie. Nous fournissons un ensemble complet d’avantages sociaux garantissant une vie équilibrée et offrant notamment des congés payés, des congés parentaux, des jeux gratuits et bien plus encore. Notre objectif est de fournir un environnement de travail sûr et bienveillant qui vous permet de vous épanouir sur le plan personnel comme sur le plan professionnel.

 

Electronic Arts souscrit au principe de l’égalité des chances. Nous prenons nos décisions en matière d’emploi sans distinction de race, de couleur, de pays d’origine, d’hérédité, de sexe, de genre, d’identité ou d’expression de genre, d’orientation sexuelle, d’âge, d’informations génétiques, de religion, de handicap, d’état de santé, de grossesse, de situation familiale, d’ancienneté ou de tout autre facteur protégé par la loi. Nous étudions également les candidatures des personnes qualifiées possédant un casier judiciaire, conformément à la loi en vigueur. Par ailleurs, EA aménage l’environnement de travail pour les personnes en situation de handicap, conformément à la loi en vigueur.