Requisition Number: 164538

"Who is EA Capital Games?"

We're a mobile game studio located in Midtown Sacramento, home to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, the most successful Star Wars mobile game ever released, charting as the #1 grossing game in over 35 countries, and one of the Top 40 grossing games in the entire world across Apple and Google.

Collectively, we are a close-knit group of passionate gamers, passionate about the creation of genre-defining mobile RPGs, and the vibrant live services necessary to support them.

While walking the halls of our brand-new 31,000 sqft studio, you'll hear the cacophony of epic console competitions, lively debates, and the rattle of dice thrown across a game board. Game nights, happy hours, weekend adventures, and a dog friendly atmosphere are all elements of who we are.

We've also developed a work-from-home process and are sensitive to the safety and well-being of our team. This opens up new opportunities for employees to work remotely.

Responsibilities:

Development Directors manage a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, QA and other production staff. DD's are the keepers of the project schedule and help move the development team from one project phase to the next while ensuring a focus on quality, collaboration and communication. You will partner with project producers and directors to ensure that they are managing the project on time, to quality, and within budget.

The Development Director for Art applies these skills directly to the Art discipline within the studio and works directly with the team and Art Director to manage personnel, the project schedule and art deliverables, pipelines and workflows.

You will report into the Lead Development Director of Art.

Oversee the full operational aspects of the art department, including establishing development framework, reporting, risk management, capacity planning, resource management and ensuring the team has the best organizational structure, processes and practices
Establish and assign task goals, ensuring quality asset deliverables within project schedule and recognizing and balancing priorities across two development teams
Partner with production to manage scope and quality of the Art team and proactively assess and mitigate risk for assigned scope
Prioritize and resolve issues through creative problem-solving skills
Work with the project leadership and art team to establish the art strategy to meet feature and content milestones and deliverables.
Make improvements and establish new ways of thinking with a goal of reducing waste and increasing predictability.
Establish regular communication with team, important partners and IP licensors to coordinate dependencies and provide project status updates.
Be responsible for managing and coaching an art team; Contribute to recruiting efforts, onboarding new hires, and retention of talent
Provide line management to employees within the discipline

Qualifications:

5 years project management or team leadership experience on AAA game franchises or similar software development projects.
Experience managing a project with Agile project management principles and practices.
You will work on complex problems where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment.
Familiarity with JIRA
Knowledge of art asset workflows and content creation pipelines a plus.
We ask that you have experience building rapport across multiple partners and influence within the studio, centralized EA partners and Licensed IP partners.

"Tell me about Sacramento."

Sacramento hosts an approachable metropolitan lifestyle, where home can be established for anyone from the singleton who wants to live downtown, to the family whose top priorities are a yard and great schools, all within a reasonable commute to our studio. The city fosters a vibrant urban culture through weekend street festivals, professional sports teams, bustling farmer's markets, wonderful eateries, and award-winning craft breweries and coffee roasters. If connecting with nature is more your vibe, the Sierras are in our backyard in addition to many local hiking and biking trails.

"What's in it for me?"

Glad you asked! We love to brag about our great perks like free food, hosted happy hours, annual camping adventures, comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, company matched retirement, and many others! And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off of creativity and individuality.

About EA At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and maternity and paternity leave, plus free video games and so much more! 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. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.