Development Manager - Production Coordinator

Requisition Number: 177154

Position Title: DM

External Description:

EA Create Capture creates quality in all aspects of our work. We are driven and focused on creating high-end performance capture content and production across multiple genres and art styles. We balance high volumes of assets to support our game development partners around the world.

Responsibilities

• Ensure your team understands the development partner motion capture goals
• Advocate for the Capture team's needs to meet qualitative and timeline requirements
• Maintain an inclusive environment and address any conflict with teams
• Develop positive working relationships with internal and external development partner teams
• Develop partnerships to deliver exceptional motion capture recording experiences
• Serve as a communicator between all parties relevant to your work
• Host pre-production meetings and communicate the opportunities, challenges and dependencies
• Work with your teams to build a recording session schedule that aligns dependencies and budget expectations
• Coordinate the team's dependencies to support motion capture recording scopes
• Coordinate project resources toward achieving project goals
• Ensure recording plans support project schedules
• Align with artists and craft experts on a regular basis regarding workload, targets and needs
• Work with supervisors and lead in crewing, casting and scheduling bodies of work to meet overall production schedule and team needs
• Maintain asset management toolsets to organise and task development priorities
• Escalate and address impact of changes to plan
• Recognise and escalate any change that affects budget to Operations team
• Motivate approaches to overcome challenges
• Help the team make swift decisions to keep forward momentum
• Keep a weekly synopsis of discipline accomplishments and next steps
• Establish processes for communicating discipline targets, assignments and priorities to crew

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Production Coordinator or Project Manager at a video game, VFX or entertainment company
• Autonomous worker with the ability to coordinate on-set recording activities
• You are familiar with digital character creation and animation
• You understand video game or entertainment production processes and pipelines
• You have experience coordinating recording session scope and asset deliverables
• You have experience working with asset and project management systems like Shotgrid and Monday.com
• You use project management methodologies, like Waterfall and Agile
• You can coordinate with people across several time zones and organisational levels
• You are detailed focused, organised and always assessing development priorities
• You maintain solution focused to overcome challenge

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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. 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: 72

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers. 

 

We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. 

 

Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game.

 

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. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.