Associate Development Manager

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. The role acts as keeper of the project schedule, guiding engineers through each phase of the project lifecycle to ensure effective collaboration, communication, and delivery. Working closely with leadership and engineers, the ADM prioritises initiatives, manages schedules and dependencies, mitigates risks, and improves delivery predictability.

• Establish and assign task goals from defined project goals, achieving project deliverables through project-level team management.
• Collaborate with cross-team disciplines to manage delivery of dependencies.
• Mitigate risk for assigned scope.
• Partner with production and technical teams to manage scope and quality.
• Use Jira to establish engagement processes, ensuring workflows are clearly defined, processes are documented, and staff are trained in expectations.
• Establish an overall project schedule based on individual task estimates for production.
• Determine resource requirements to meet task requirements.
• Establish a project budget, determine task requirements, and assign tasks to team resources.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide management escalation, project prioritisation, and make trade-offs.
• Ensure the project meets specifications through regular status reporting and capacity plan updates.

• 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.

• In Canada, benefits include vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of paid sick time, company top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement benefits to regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and long-term cash programs.