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Software Engineering Program Manager - Frostbite

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Location: 1950 Summit Park Dr, Orlando, FL 32810, USA Toronto, Golden Horseshoe, Ontario, Canada Los Angeles, CA 90094, USA Electronic Arts Dr, Redwood City, CA 94065, USA Virginia, USA Georgia, USA North Carolina, USA Posted: May 13, 2022

Job Description

FROSTBITE

Frostbite is EA's state-of-the-art multi-platform game development engine. Our global team empowers game creators to shape the future of gaming by developing creative engine features and outstanding tools. We are honored to have thousands of game developers all over the world using Frostbite to create some of the most amazing games and player experiences in the industry.

What does a Program Manager do?

As Program Manager, you will lead and motivate domains within the Production Systems product area with a focus to ensure good Agile development practices. You will improve the development process, including project and capacity planning, progress tracking, risk management, and team-wide collaboration and communication.

This is a role for the Procedural team, and you will report to a Director of Program Management.

Responsibilities

  • Work with product owners, tech leads and engineering managers to plan and deliver projects
  • Determine the resource requirements to meet project goals and establish success criteria
  • Evaluate and resolve dependencies
  • Complete projects using Agile development in a distributed development environment
  • Manage development tasks, and communicate progress against committed deliverables
  • Estimate the impact of change requests on plans, budget, and resources
  • Manage support and other interruptions to planned work
  • Perform risk management

Responsibilities: Team and Process Management

  • Promote the Agile development process in teams
  • Dotted-line manage the development team (in partnership with Engineering Manager)
  • Monitor team health, workload and recognize extra effort
  • Guide departmental planning (i.e. resource, initiative, sprint/program increment, release planning)
  • Create and help implement process improvements across groups and advocate for the team.

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of project/program management experience in a high-tech company
  • Experience with software projects
  • Experience in multiple project management methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall
  • Scrum Master or Agile Coach experience
  • Experience with distributed development across multiple locations
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • EST time zone preferred/global team

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About Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is a leading publisher of games on Console, PC and Mobile. At EA, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create amazing experiences for our players everywhere and we consider our players’ experiences first in everything we do.

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