- THIS IS A HYBRID ROLE LOCATED IN ORLANDO, FL AND WOULD REQUIRE BEING IN THE OFFICE 2-3 DAYS PER WEEK
EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC soccer, NHL® hockey, College Football , and EA SPORTS UFC.
We are searching for a Development Director to join the Operational delivery team for College Football. You are right for this role if you are passionate about solving difficult problems. You can collaborate, communicate, and motivate often across departments and with peers or partners in other parts of the business. Your greatest strengths are building relationships. You like to be challenged, take pride in building vibrant teams, and thinking about the future excites you.
Your Responsibilities:
- Work with the Project Leadership team to establish the strategy and plan to meet milestones and important deliverables
- Work with creative, development, operations partners, and team members to ensure that quality, budgets and timelines are met.
- Support the development of a successful team culture based on openness, trust and collaboration
- Support an inclusive and diverse team culture.
- Develop project indicators that track project quality, delivery, and predictability
- Be responsible for coaching, mentoring, and career development of your team. Lead project managers at all levels.
- Inspire fresh thinking and new ideas to ensure the team has the best organizational structure and processes that allow them to produce high-quality work on time and on budget.
- Build an engaged group with an understanding of what inspires the individuals and team.
- Promote knowledge sharing, learning, reconciling conflicting goals, sharing resources amongst your team.
Your Qualifications:
- Experience with Project Management (6+ years) and People Management (2+ years), and a background in delivery of large critical projects (60+ team members), including auditing and steering.
- Previous Experience in a Live Service or User Experience environment preferred.
- Excellent knowledge of software development and tools, with significant project and risk management experience. Preference for Microsoft Project and Jira.
- University degree, Bachelor's, or equivalent
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.
