Associate Development Manager

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

The EA SPORTS™ Technical Team is seeking an Associate Development Manager (ADM) to manage and coordinate a variety of technical disciplines while supporting cloud infrastructure and live gaming services.

As the keeper of the project schedule, you will help guide engineers through each phase of the project lifecycle, ensuring effective collaboration, communication, and delivery.

Working closely with leadership, and engineers, you will prioritize initiatives, manage schedules and dependencies, mitigate risks, and improve delivery predictability. You will help ensure technical projects and initiatives are delivered on time, to the expected quality standards, and within budget, while supporting the reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement of EA SPORTS platforms and live gaming services.

You will do the following:

Execution:

• Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing a team at a project-level.

• Collaborating with cross-team disciplines to manage delivery of dependencies

• Mitigate risk for assigned scope

• Partner with production and tech to manage scope and quality

• Using Jira, establish engagement processes to ensure all workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained in expectations

Project management:

• Establish an overall project schedule based on the individual task estimates for production

• Determine the resource requirements to meet the task requirements

• Establish a project budget, determine task requirements, and assign tasks to team resources

• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritization, make tradeoffs,

• Ensure project meets the specifications with regular status reporting, and capacity plan updates

Requirements:

• 1+ years of Project Management experience with production lifecycles, processes and project planning.

• Experience in a Scrum / Agile software development environment.

• Experience working with large, cross-functional teams, with demonstrated skills in facilitation, stakeholder alignment, mediation, and conflict resolution.

• University degree, bachelor's or equivalent professional experience

• Experience in different project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile is an asset

Pay Transparency - North America

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

PAY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$74,100 - $102,000 CAD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

General Information

Locations: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 

Role ID

216602

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

EA Studios - SPORTS

Work Model

Hybrid