Lead External Development Director

DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment), the award-winning studio based in Stockholm, Sweden, is best known for creating the phenomenally successful Battlefield franchise, the Star Wars: Battlefront franchise, and the very creative game Mirror's Edge.
We work through our 4 guiding values: Passion with Purpose, Creative Innovation, Everything Quality, and One Community. Our people are the backbone and driving force to our creative products. As such, we are dedicated to providing everyone the chance to express themselves and be their very best with a common cause.
The Challenge Ahead:
We are looking for an experienced External Development Director who is passionate about both process and gaming to set our outsourcing strategy and provide daily production leadership to our external teams. You are a master of content pipelines. You understand the iterative nature of creative processes and how to facilitate them. You know how to build healthy, high functioning relationships with vendors. You are a force multiplier for the team.
What skills does DICE look for?
You are passionate about managing creative teams. You have 8+ years working as a project manager; 5+ years of experience working in a AAA game development (extra credit if you have experience in Live Services); you have experience managing external content teams at a large-scale; you have success as a mediator and have many conflict resolution tools in your tool belt. You are comfortable talking across all levels of an organization; you always knows the status of your project and can visualize that status for any audience. You understand the complexities and requirements of art production and how to manage them.
What an External Development Director does at DICE:
As a leader you will set your priorities but a typical week could include:
Reporting to the Studio Content Development Director you will create an environment where our content creators can excel at working with external teams
Establish and nurture external partnerships to provide content for the productions across DICE
Work with our teams to apply best practices in production strategies and working with the discipline directors to ensure all teams are structured and resourced.
You will work with Art, Audio and Animation Directors, DD & Production management team and partner studios to coordinate the milestone schedule and contribute to game delivery
Ensure we are addressing vendor gaps, training requirements, work orders and invoicing.
Manage performance issues and provide guidance to external partners