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Development Director, External Development

Electronic Arts
Shanghai Shanghai China
4 years ago
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Report to Senior Development Director, who based in Orlando.

Development directors in the Distributed Development (DistDev) team manage a variety of responsibilities in partnership with internal team members, clients, EA team members and external 3rd party developers.

The DistDev DDs will find scalability and content creation solutions for EA’s internal teams, primarily through 3rd party developers, but also through internal solutions like leveraging other EA locations and resources.

The DistDev DDs will work with client teams such as ArtWorks, EA Shanghai and even non-content partners to find content creation solutions and scalability by applying standardized process for requirements gathering, requirements analysis and 3rd party vendor shortlisting, testing and selection, or alternative solutions. Responsible for being an information conduit between content distributed development and other EA teams, such as XDI and External Dev teams at other studios.

The DistDev DDs are keepers of the distributed development artifacts for each engagement such as distributed development schedule, staffing plan, budget, travel and onsite, training, stakeholders register, risk register and communications plan.

Distributed Development DDs play a vital role in successfully moving the content development teams from one project phase to the next while ensuring a strong focus on quality, collaboration and communication. They must work with internal and external teams to ensure that they are managing the project on time, to quality, and within budget.

The DistDev DD also serves as an escalation point for internal team and 3rd party development teams when production issues need resolution.

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