Development Director - Game Production Solutions (GPS)

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.

Who We Are

Game Production Solutions (GPS) is a new division in Creative Technologies at Electronic Arts. In the GPS group, we build solutions for our customers (Game Teams / Creators). We empower game creators to make an outsized impact with our technology.

Your Work With Us

Within GPS, we are building technology platforms that will help some of the biggest and most successful studios in EA to grow their build systems onto the cloud all while reducing the engineering load required to do so. You will report to the Senior Development Director, and you will program manage the effort to ensure these game teams are able to adopt the technology. As a senior program lead within GPS, you will help us define the processes we need to ensure predictability in our delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Create, manage, and execute project roadmaps for assigned responsibilities ranging from the development of cloud-based products and solutions to plans for adoption, integration, migration and support.
• Work with disciplinary leadership to understand their goals, ensuring the project roadmap, granular feature strategies, and development plans accomplish their needs while following larger project goals.
• You will manage one or more direct reports in your area of assigned responsibility.
• You will also have a passion and empathy for solving people's problems and building happy, motivated teams.
• You will foster a culture of diversity to empower teams by encouraging an inclusive environment where all opinions are heard.

Qualifications:

• You have 5 or more years shipping game as a Development Director or in a Senior Production role.
• Experience presenting to senior level team members.
• You are familiar with Agile/Scrum, and you have experience in project planning, capacity planning, dependency and risk management including mitigation techniques.
• You have experience with project management tools such as Jira/JaaS..
• Experience using project management metrics to set development process success goals.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

Bonus Points:

• You are knowledgeable about CI/CD and software testing methodologies.
• Experience working with distributed teams