Sr Technical Project Manager - Data & Analytics
Multiple Locations: Montreal, QC, Canada • Toronto, ON, Canada • Quebec, Canada • Ontario, Canada
Requisition Number: 178241
Position Title: DD II
External Description:
Data and Analytics (DnA) team is looking for a Sr. Tech. Project Manager (Development Director II) with experience in analytics and data.
Reporting to the Sr. Director of Development, you will plan out execution for multiple programs across our vast portfolio of project (live and in development). This is an incredible opportunity to ensure game teams and partner teams have access to technologies and deliver great games to our players and grow our business.
You will..
- Establish direction & strategy for multiple complex projects/teams while ensuring alignment with internal & external leadership
- Monitor & adjust capacity plans for multiple complex projects/teams to address skill gaps and identify funding needs
- Lead the budget for multiple complex projects/teams and partnering with finance to maintain a healthy budget
- Be the one removing roadblocks
- Partner with DDs at all levels to train them and provide mentorship
- Establish team health standards through team leaders
- Implement process improvement plans across full projects or multiple teams
- Plan schedules, and status reports across multiple complex projects/teams
- Solve Data & Analytics dependencies between the project and external groups
- Implement change management processes to communicate and measure the effectiveness of project-wide change
What a Development Director at EA does:
- Refine backlog and help with prioritisation for their team(s) backlog
- Attend daily stand-ups with your team
- Organise, lead daily stand-ups, grooming, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives and other team meetings with your scrum team(s)
- Develop a repeatable structured approach for capturing and describing the key enterprise information
- Create work estimates, track progress, and report status in the form of burn up/down charts
- Understand the business priorities and keep the team on track by encouraging communication and collaboration
- Drive execution from concept to live (estimates, tasks, change requests, bugs)
- Be a scrum master for a cross-functional development team
- Evaluate individual performance and potential of team members, provide appropriate recognition or constructive feedback
- Form close working relationships with discipline leads, provide regular coaching and mentoring
- Manage partner communication and requirements
- Establish trust and credibility with team leadership as well as studio leadership
- Coordinate dependencies with external parties across the company
- Take ownership of your role
Qualifications:
- Passionate about managing projects
- 7+ years working as a project manager
- 5+ years of experience working in a Software Development industry, and you have released multiple solutions while seeing them through all phases of the development life cycle.
- Have experience managing internal and external teams
- Have many conflict resolution tools in your tool belt.
- The ability to talk across all levels of an organisation
- The ability to always know the status of your project and can visualize that status for any audience
- Great communication skills
- Experience with game development a plus
- Experience working in or managing a co-development environment a strong plus
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Community / Marketing Title: Sr Technical Project Manager - Data & Analytics
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: 38
Can this position be remote?: 1
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.