Development director content

Requisition Number: 185398

Position Title: DD I

External Description:

Finding great talent and supporting our studios to be the best place for people to make an impact is central to our philosophy
This is the principle behind our newly formed Seattle Studio focusing on open-world action-adventure games and pioneering next-generation emergent storytelling
Join us to pursue your passion to build unique, groundbreaking, and inclusive games that empower players to create incredible stories of heroic adventure

Become a foundational part of an ambitious, respectful and diverse team as we are looking for a Development Director responsible for driving collaborative game development strategy across multiple feature teams and delivering a successful experience.

Making games is unpredictable, and we’re all in it together
Development Directors are our drivers, listening and working with all our experts to find a way through
Development Directors determine the “how” for the team and are responsible for ensuring the team is focused on the priorities identified by leadership while maintaining continuous alignment during development.

As a Development Director focusing on content development, you will define workflows, best practices and tools to refine how our team works together to create content to produce an amazing game experience
You will collaborate with team members and leadership to a process for defining, developing, refining and approving the content that is produced for our game
In a supporting role you will work with all areas of development to ensure there are clear consistent expectations across the team and all stakeholders needs are getting met
As our team grows you will be asked to help with overseeing specific disciplines’ content creation efforts to keep our team working efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Work with disciplinary leadership to understand their workflow needs and refine our development and production practices to accommodate them.
• Champion the creation and refinement of our asset management toolset helping to create consistent processes to track our content through all stages of development.
• Manage the content creation for assigned disciplines ensuring they have a clear roadmap to meet the teams needs and are never blocked by dependencies.
• In collaboration with the rest of the production team, take responsibility for production processes and health for assigned area of responsibility, continually ensuring that the team’s infrastructure and rituals support healthy, productive outputs
• Inspire fresh thinking and new ideas to ensure the team has the structure and processes that empowers them to innovate within our games and our development methodology.
• You will also have a passion and empathy for solving people’s problems and building happy, motivated teams.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years working with game development teams in a Development Director or Production role.
• Knowledge of asset management tools and software
  ShotGrid experience preferred.
• Experience managing diverse team across different time zones and locations
• The ability to talk across all levels of an organization
• Experience of agile project management processes
• Experience obtaining insights and developing strategies through analytical metrics-driven analysis and design experimentation.
• Experience using KPIs to set product success goals, monitoring of the product and informing necessary changes to the game.
• Team player that brings excitement and enthusiasm to work each day.
• Strong communication and writing skills, with experience preparing and presenting decks to various stakeholders.

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COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations
If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting
Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES
California (depending on location e.g
Los Angeles vs
Sacramento):
$140,700 – $204,700 USD Annually
New York (depending on location e.g
Manhattan vs
Buffalo):
$125,300 – $204,700 USD Annually
Jersey City, NJ :
$164,800 – $204,700 USD Annually
Colorado (depending on location e.g
Denver vs
Colorado Springs):
$131,000 – $174,800 USD Annually
Washington (depending on location e.g
Seattle vs
Spokane):
$125,300 – $198,100 USD Annually
British Columbia (depending on location e.g
Vancouver vs
Victoria):
$115,100 – $161,200 CAN Annually

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA
In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees
Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity
For British Columbia, 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 equity.

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Company Profile:

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.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play
Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us
We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life
We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more
Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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.

Days Open: 1

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play
Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us
We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life
We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more
Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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. Recommended Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Analytical
• Asset Management
• Communication
• Experimentation
• Infrastructure Management

Tagged as: agile project management, asset management, Collaboration, Content, Content Creation, Content Development, Empathy, Focusing, Infrastructure, IT, Leadership, Production, Refinement, Refining, Software, Storytelling, Workflows