Electronic Arts

Job Title: Development Director Studio/Team: Pogo Location: Remote

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Pogo has been the leader in online casual games since 1998. Featuring a growing library of 60+ titles spanning popular genres like Solitaire, Mahjong, Match 3, and more, Pogo exists to be the best destination for online casual games. We aim to produce high-quality HTML5-powered games with sophisticated metagames and social mechanics, all while working seamlessly across desktop, tablet and mobile. Our fans and subscribers come to Pogo for fresh content, daily challenges, great events, new games, and a live service that delivers!

About this Position

As a Development Director (DD), reporting to the Operations Director, you'll drive planning and execution on a cross-functional development team to build software in a live service environment. This is a leadership role that involves a high level of interaction with team members, peers, and product leadership. DD's focus on solving problems, and making things work (or work better). You will enhance the project release schedule and support the games and live service teams for Pogo.

Responsibilities

• Create project schedules that maximize feature quality and scope within resource, financial, and licensor constraints
• Validate task length, discipline, and dependencies
• Manage risk
• Build a capable team that looks for opportunities to operate at their potential and takepride in their accomplishments
• Keep the team informed of the schedule and changes
• Train the team on best practices, processes, and standards
• Meet commitments, hold team accountable
• Monitor level of effort and provide feedback to individuals
• Evaluate individual performance and potential of team members, provide appropriate recognition or constructive feedback
• Form close working relationships with discipline leads, provide regular coaching
• Resolve issues, balance priorities, and find creative solutions that achieve results
• Identify, assign, and track development and organizational issues to completion
• Report status at regular intervals, escalate urgent issues

Requirements

• You have 6+ years in a project management role within the software development industry
• Solid foundation in project management (including Agile methodologies)
• Understanding of the software development life cycle
• Experience working with JIRA, Hansoft, or similar tool
• You have 4+ years in a team leadership role.
• Sound decision-making based on analysis and judgement
• Interest in learning and applying new concepts
• High degree of initiative, looking for opportunities to make improvements
• Comfortable presenting and working with groups
• Excellent documentation and writing ability
• Bachelor's degree in a related field