External Development Planning & Operations Manager (Apex Legends)

General Information

Locations: Vancouver - Great Northern Way, British Columbia, Canada

Role ID

214961

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

EA Studios - Respawn

Work Model

Hybrid

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

Job Title: External Development Planning & Operations Manager (Apex Legends)

Location: Vancouver BC

Work Model: Hybrid

Respawn Entertainment

Founded in 2010, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when talented people have creative freedom, they’ll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. Respawn Entertainment is the Academy Award-winning studio behind Apex Legends, Titanfall, and Star Wars™ Jedi titles. Join us to help shape the future of one of the world’s leading live service franchises.

Reporting to the Head of Content Strategy and External Development, you will oversee the operational planning and coordination of external development across the franchise. That means we turn vertical team needs into vendor staffing plans and ensure that we properly scope, staff, track, and financially manage every external engagement. You'll sit at the center of coordination between vertical teams, vendors, finance, and the Head of Content Strategy and External Development, keeping our use of external partners predictable and efficient.

The role starts with the tracking, contracts, and financial accuracy that external development runs on, and grows into demand planning and capacity strategy over time.

Responsibilities

Manage the external development budget tracker across all verticals, keeping spend data accurate, current, and trusted as the single source of truth.

Create and submit work orders and purchase orders, validate vendor invoices against approved staffing plans, and coordinate invoice processing with finance partners.

Track spend against forecasts and flag variances, risks, and opportunities to optimize external spend.

Maintain centralized visibility into vendor capacity, allocation, and cost, and produce the data inputs that drive quarterly and annual planning cycles.

Be a coordination point between vertical teams and vendors through planning and setup, chasing the information needed to keep plans accurate and documenting clean handoffs to team ownership.

Grow into demand and capacity planning, translating team requests into structured staffing plans across role types, timelines, and budgets.

Qualifications:

Proficiency managing operational budgets and tracking spend against forecasts across multiple cost centers or stakeholders. Public sector, agency, or production backgrounds all translate well here.

Hands-on experience administering vendor or contractor relationships, including raising work orders and purchase orders, validating invoices, and coordinating payment with finance.

A track record of coordinating across teams or departments to keep shared budgets, schedules, or plans accurate and current.

Strong spreadsheet skills in Excel or Google Sheets. You can develop trackers with formulas and pivot tables that other people can actually rely on.

Working knowledge of procurement or accounts payable workflows, including POs, invoice reconciliation, and spend categorization.

Experience turning team requests into resourcing or capacity plans with clear timelines and budgets.

Pay Transparency - North America

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

PAY RANGES

British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) $104,500 - $142,800 CAD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.