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What does a Program Manager do?
As a Program Manager, you will plan and manage projects, initiatives, program increments, and releases spanning multiple teams and locations. You will liaise with the project managers on individual development teams to ensure that team capacity and projects are appropriately planned and staffed, and that dependencies and risks are being managed for effective on-time delivery. You will help craft and manage development processes, including project and capacity planning, progress tracking, and team-wide collaboration and communication. You will demonstrate excellent communication skills in keeping the team, the studios, and the executive team up to date with progress on key projects.
Responsibilities
Project Planning and Management
- Coordinate with engineering stakeholders and product owners to prioritize projects
- Determine the resource requirements to meet the project goals
- Evaluate and resolve dependencies and establish success criteria
- Successfully deliver projects using Agile development in a distributed development environment
- Manage and track development work, and communicate progress against committed deliverables
- Estimate the impact of change requests on project schedule, budget, and resources
- Ensure support issues and other plan interrupts are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner
Team and Process Management
- Dotted-line manage and support project managers from development teams
- Monitor workload and recognize extra effort
- Drive departmental planning (i.e. resource, initiative, program increment, release planning)
- Devise and assist in implementing process improvements across groups and advocate for the team.
Skills and Experience
- 8+ years of project and program management experience in a high- tech company
- Experience in various project management methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall
- Experience with distributed development across multiple locations
- Strong negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution skills
- Effective communication skills across all levels of an organization
- Bachelor’s degree or 4+ years of education
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.
