Development Director - EA SPORTS™ UFC

Leads the planning and execution of complex cross-functional development efforts across multiple teams and disciplines. It partners closely with Production, Design, Engineering, Quality Verification, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality player experiences on time and within budget. The position drives project planning, operational excellence, resource planning, and delivery predictability while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.

• Establish and maintain the overall project plan, including resource capacity planning, proactive mitigation of production risks, and management of internal and external dependencies.
• Drive effective processes within the team, ensuring workflows are well defined and understood, and seek out and define opportunities for process improvements and innovation.
• Participate in risk identification, mitigation, and contingency planning against project priorities.
• Drive and execute change management initiatives within the team.
• Build and evolve effective teams, identifying resourcing needs, participating in the hiring process to ensure candidates meet project requirements, and providing challenges and development opportunities so employees can reach their potential.
• Suggest and implement operational changes to enable effective and motivated teams.
• Model and exhibit conflict resolution behaviours following established best practices.
• Effectively communicate the team's progress and status upward.
• Identify and lead collaborative efforts across the organisation, working with key stakeholders to affect change.
• Act as keeper of the project schedule and help move the development team from one project phase to the next, with a focus on quality, collaboration, and communication.

• 5+ years of project management experience with production lifecycles, processes, and project planning in a dynamic and collaborative team environment.
• Experience executing project management methodologies, such as Waterfall and Agile.
• Experience in communicating and stakeholder management across all levels and organisations.
• Experience building complex systems with cross-discipline teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Game Development, Business, 3D Arts, or a related field.

• 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, and vision coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Retirement benefits for regular full-time employees.
• Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and long-term cash programmes.