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Development Manager - Capture (Contract)

EA Create is a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to bring outstanding visuals, audio, and technology to life. Our teams comprise of artists, engineers, technicians, designers, and development directors. Worldwide, we combine our teams to form a global group of extraordinary individuals fueled by imagination and a unified passion for creating amazing visuals, sound, and experiences. We are a diverse team, unified through collaboration, culture, and craft.

EA Create Capture is a highly engaged content creation team within EA Studios. Our content is generated through different services which encompass motion capture, performance capture, facial animation, head scanning and body scanning for video game titles developed by Electronic Arts (EA). We are adventurous and creative. We are courageous and we take chances. We look for the best in everyone.

What a Capture Producer (Development Manager) does:

As a member of the Development Director job family at EA, Capture Producers are the keepers of the project schedule and help move the game team from one project phase to the next while ensuring collaboration and communication. Reporting to the Head of Production, you will partner with the Capture team and Game teams that span multiple disciplines to ensure that they are managing the project on time, to quality, and within budget.

As a Capture Producer, you are experienced in live production, animation and post-production; often achieved through a career in videogame project management, film, television, sound, post or theater production offices. You will sometimes can travel for work (post-Covid).

Responsibilities

Live Production Abilities:

• Understand what Motion Capture is and can demonstrate that knowledge by telling us about it
• Have experience in a high-tech environment, that may have been combined with a live production environment
• Have on set experience, know and demonstrate 'what good looks like ' for on-set etiquette , production principles and paperwork involved with producing a live action shoot
• Have planned complex travel and logistics for both people and equipment.
• Wrangled casting, talent bookings, talent needs on set, and complete talent agreements / payroll paperwork

Project Management Abilities:

• Experienced a workplace with custom tools/software
• Establish pre-production milestones and be part of post-production planning
• Determine the resource requirements to complete the tasks
• Support management of project budget, identifying task requirements, and track status of tasks

Qualifications:

• 3+ years entertainment production management / coordinator / assistant experience
• University Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
• Experience in different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.