Development Manager - EA Sports Tech

Are you passionate about new technologies and pushing the boundaries of game development? EA SPORTS Technical Art is looking for a Development Manager to partner with our Technical Artists and support the successful delivery of tools, workflows, and content across EA SPORTS.

The Technical Art team is a central service team that supports multiple game development projects, each with different timelines, priorities, and delivery needs. In this role, you will help the team stay organized, follow project plans, track progress, identify risks, and support delivery across milestones. Strong communication, collaboration, and partner management skills are key, as you will play an important role in keeping work moving, maintaining quality, and helping bring our technology and content to life.

You will provide day-to-day support for Technical Artists by helping track work, follow up on open items, and maintain clear team information.

You will help clarify production priorities and align team efforts with project goals by gathering information, tracking dependencies, and supporting conversations with internal and external partners.

You will facilitate collaboration within the Technical Art team and with partner teams, helping identify blockers, surface risks, and resolve open issues early.

You will partner with the Development Director and Technical Art Directors to support team planning, onboarding, resourcing conversations, and development opportunities for team members.

You will support the team in executing against milestones, deliverables, and project commitments across multiple EA SPORTS projects.

You will track task progress, dependencies, risks, and capacity, and escalate concerns to the Development Director, Technical Art Directors, and project leadership when needed.

You will partner with production and Technical Art leadership to help balance scope, quality, and timelines.

You will communicate progress, risks, and changes to project teams and coordinate requirements with external partners.

You will partner with the Development Director to support sprint planning, retrospectives, task tracking, and project reporting.

You will maintain Technical Art project plans, backlogs, dashboards, and team documentation to ensure information is accurate and accessible.

You will help track schedules and milestone progress across multiple projects, using task estimates, team input, and partner timelines.

You will support planning discussions by gathering data on scope, capacity, dependencies, and resource needs.