Development Director

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We are looking for an experienced people leader who is passionate about driving game quality to lead our EA Sports FC (Football Club) products based in our Vancouver studio.

You will provide leadership for the Quality Verification (QV) department, comprising of management, quality design, engineering, and analytics. We are looking to hire an experienced people manager, who also has vast experience with our game, and the sport of football (soccer). You will be working closely with Production partners to help improve the player experience, and focus on operationalizing our multi year strategy. You will report to the Director of Product, Experiential Quality for FC QV.

Your primary responsibilities will be:

• Manage planning in all development stages from pre-production, production, launch, and live services.
• Scope and Capacity Management across QV.
• Overall project risk management and reporting to FC leadership.
• Create scenarios and guide the decision-making process.
• Improve operational effectiveness of team effort by assessing current practices, incorporating new strategies, and increasing predictability.
• Promote the evolution of QV practices across FC products.
• Identify opportunities to share practices, tools, and analytics across Vancouver, EA Bucharest and the rest of EA.
• Effective change management. Change is welcomed as an opportunity to drive strategic, business-impacting change.

Your primary People Management responsibilities will be:

• Mentor and support other leaders across all disciplines; build and mentor teams.
• Identify resourcing needs, guide and develop changes to talent, skills and practices to accomplish operational and strategic goals.
• Coordinate talent management and succession planning.
• Monitor and evolve talent skill mix, using training and active recruitment plans and strategies.
• Promote a culture of diversity and inclusion.

Experiences and Capabilities:

• 5+ years of project management or team leadership experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing people, including managing managers.
• 3+ years of experience leading and growing large multi-discipline teams.
• 3+ years of experience with automated testing.
• 1+ years experience with Continuous Delivery or Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Understand software quality assurance and software development lifecycle practices.
• Experienced FC player, and love of football.
• Education requirement: University Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

** Please include a cover letter with a brief description of your knowledge/familiarity with EA Sports FC, football/soccer.