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Lead Development Director - DICE

DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment), the award-winning studio based in Stockholm, Sweden, is best known for creating the phenomenally successful Battlefield franchise, the Star Wars: Battlefront franchise, and the very creative game Mirror's Edge.

We work through our 4 guiding values: Passion with Purpose, Creative Innovation, Everything Quality, and One Community. Our people are the backbone and driving force to our creative products. As such, we are dedicated to providing everyone the chance to express themselves and be their very best with a common cause.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced project manager who is passionate about gaming to provide leadership for a group of development teams. You will create an environment that enables our development teams to focus on what they are good at and support them with administrative work and production support. You will also mentor other project managers and be an example of what good looks like within the studio. The Development Director plans time, resources and tracks progress on our features working together with the other leads. You will be an essential person in the daily operation of the teams you work with.

What skills does DICE look for?

We believe you have the following:

• 7+ years project management experience – preferably in the tech / software development industry
• Leadership experience and a desire to lead and help teams achieve their goals
• Experience in negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution in complex project setups
• Strong communication skills across all levels of the organization
• Focused on motivating and inspiring team(s) to work as one towards the project goals
• Experiencing managing and mentoring more junior project or product managers

We believe that you are comfortable and have experience working with:

• Agile development, using Scrum/Kanban/Lean
• Project roadmaps, sprint planning, retrospectives, day-to-day team management, dependency management
• Project development with emphasis on team empowerment
• Risk analysis and mitigation techniques
• Budgeting and resource planning
• Tools: e.g. Jira, Hansoft, Word, Excel (create & maintain complex spreadsheets), PowerPoint, PowerBI or other project management, reporting and tracking tools.