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Development Manager (Contract)

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

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

The Challenge ahead:

A Development Manager can manage a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA, and other production staff. They are the keepers of the project schedule and help move the development team from one project phase to the next, while ensuring collaboration and communication are consistent throughout the project. As a development manager, you will ensure that project deliverables are on time, to quality, and within budget.

What You'll do:

• You will lead and evolve the team; identify resourcing needs, encourage the removal of obstacles that prevent the team from completing deliveries on time, to quality and within budget.
• Develop working relationships with immediate team and other external partner teams that have dependencies or an impact on the completion of the project.
• Communicate with the project team and coordinate requirements with external partners.
• Provide updates to department leadership and escalating issues and concerns.
• Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing team at a project-level.
• You will mitigate risk for assigned scope whilst partnering with our production team, to manage scope and quality.
• Work with department leadership in the creation of written status/risk reports for the project.
• Establish an overall project schedule based on the individual task estimates for production.
• Determine the resource requirements to meet the task requirements.
• Manage a project budget, determine task requirements, and assign tasks to team resources.

What We're Looking For:

• 5 years project management or team leadership experience.
• Education requirement University degree Bachelors or equivalent professional experience.
• 1+ years of experience in different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.