Development Manager
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Requisition Number: 185223
Position Title: DM
External Description:
Development Manager
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
The role
As a Development Manager, you’ll primarily drive planning and execution of a cross-functional development team to build and ship new content, features and games.
This is a leadership role that involves a high level of interaction with team members, peers, and product leadership. DM’s focus on outcomes, solving problems, and making things work (or work better). You’ll develop, maintain, and drive the project schedule from start to finish, while making sure the path is clear of obstacles for your team.
You’ll be accountable for leading the team to meet milestones and quality targets, creating, and improving processes, coordinating with support departments across the company, tracking and resolving issues, monitoring development KPIs and seeking out and applying knowledge to improve the organization.
As a DM, your responsibilities include:
Managing the project:
- Partner with Producers, Product Managers, QV teams and additional partners to manage project plan, scope, quality and live service delivery
- Act as a scrum master for a cross-functional development team(s)
- Drive development execution from concept to live
- Establishes a viable Project Plan and Schedule to fulfill the objectives of the product roadmap, determines task dependencies, balances scope, assigns tasks and aligns stakeholders to deliver on defined project outcomes.
- Create project schedules that maximize feature quality and scope within resource, financial, and development partner constraints
- Anticipate bottlenecks and risks, provide management escalation, project prioritization, make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and drive the process forward
Leading the team:
- Own the project schedule and communicate any divergence from the plan
- Report status at regular intervals, escalate urgent issues in a timely manner
- Hold the team accountable to its commitments
- Working with discipline leaders, evaluate individual performance and potential of team members, provide appropriate recognition and constructive feedback
- Educate the team on best practices, processes, and standards as needed
- Inspire and motivate team(s) through personal example
Being part of the team:
- Manage stakeholder communication and requirements
- Form close working relationships with team and discipline leads
- Solve problems, balance priorities, and find creative solutions that achieve results
If you’re interested in this role, you’ll need these skills or experiences:
- Minimum 5 years of project management or team leadership experience (preferably game development)
- Solid foundation in project management methodologies and tools
- Demonstrable knowledge of software development life cycles
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Effective communication skills across all levels of an organization Assets
- Game development experience (casual gaming or mobile gaming preferred)
- Familiarity with EA’s mobile products
- Project management certifications or training
The Perks
- Hybrid Work (at least 2 days in office)
- Modern Office space
- Opportunity to work in a fast-paced dynamic company and industry
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Community / Marketing Title: Development Manager
Company Profile:
Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。
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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: 47
Can this position be remote?: 0
EEO Employer Verbiage:
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