Development Director, Create

Requisition Number: 185009

Position Title: DD II

External Description:

Summary

You will report to the Senior DD and lead a local team and collaborate with global teams to deliver content related to unannounced and live service titles bringing value to players through improving personalization and growing engagement in EA titles.

Responsibilities

• You will partner with Senior DD, Art + Tech Leadership, and Game Team partners leads to establish the strategy to create project milestones and schedule

• Organize, lead daily stand-ups, backlog prioritization + grooming, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives and other team meetings with your scrum team(s)

• Create work estimates, track progress, and report status in the form of burn up/down charts

• Support the team from concept to live (estimates, tasks, change requests, bugs)

• Be the scrum master for a many-sided development team

• Evaluate individual performance and potential of team members, provide appropriate recognition or constructive feedback

• Support cross location/cultural partnerships with Shanghai team and Global Game Team partners.

• You will work with internal and external partners to ensure that quality, budgets and timelines are met.

• You will inspire fresh thinking and new ideas to ensure the team has the best organizational structure and practices to allow them to produce high quality on time and on budget.

• You will help develop a team culture based on openness, trust and collaboration.

• You will be responsible for coaching and career development of your reports.

• Grow to represent Create KL as Operations Leader, partnering with People Practices, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Workplace, and Legal.

 

Qualifications

• Experience: You have 7+ years in Project Management

• You have experience in delivery of large critical software projects (20+ team members, multi-million-dollar budgets).

• You have the ability to excite and lead a diverse team to deliver innovation through collaboration.

• You have the ability to improve outcomes across all levels of an organization, build partnerships, and solve critical priorities.

• You have the ability to set clear goals and monitor execution towards those goals.

• Role specific skills: You have excellent knowledge of Content Development processes, with project and risk management experience.

• You are an inclusive and development-oriented people manager.

• You have experience with finance, data, or analytics related areas either through managed data related projects or as components of projects.

• Fluent in English. Conversational in Mandarin (Fluent a big plus).

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

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About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

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: 51

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth. 

We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

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.