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Senior Development Director

“Who is EA Capital Games?”

We’re a mobile game studio and home to the highly successful title Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, the most successful Star Wars mobile game ever released, charting as the #1 grossing game in over 35 countries, and one of the Top 40 grossing games in the entire world across Apple and Google.

Collectively, we are a close-knit group of passionate gamers, passionate about the creation of genre-defining mobile RPGs, and the vibrant live services necessary to support them. Our team culture is friendly, results-focused, and collaborative. We take our work – but not ourselves – very seriously.

As a Sr. Development Director, you'll report to our Director Product Development and will play an important role in the management of a game team and its operation, shepherding the team from one project phase to the next, while focusing on predictability, resourcing, risk management, cost monitoring, operational optimization, and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Foster an engaging and fulfilling work environment
• Respond to team health metrics to ensure minimal attrition
• Oversee the facilitation and execution of the game development process
• Establish the development approach and its governance
• Monitor project metrics as indicators of predictability, efficiency, and quality
• Creatively handle challenges that threaten these KPIs
• Partner with Production to synchronize product scope and team capacity
• Build operational plans to ensure essential milestones are achieved
• Assess development team performance, and improve through process tailoring, restructuring, and resourcing
• Align the team’s focus with the established studio goals
• Identify and resolve risks and opportunities
• Provide mentoring and career coaching to your direct reports and broader team members

Requirements

• 10+ years of operational leadership experience on projects with large distributed and collocated teams, multi-year schedules, and $10MM+ budgets
• Deep project management knowledge, acquired through years of experience
• Experienced with AAA game franchises or comparable consumer software products
• Intimate familiarity with Agile methodologies, principles, and lexicon

“What’s in it for me?”

Glad you asked! We love to brag about our great perks like free food, hosted happy hours, annual camping adventures, comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, company matched retirement, and many others!