Associate Development Manager

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The EA SPORTSTM 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 life cycles, 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  Pay is just one part of the overall compensation ation (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
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