Responsibilities:

• Work with Producers to create, manage, and execute project schedules, resource plans, and processes;
• Work with department leads to properly estimate tasks, as well as create and track milestone deliverables;
• Daily management of development efforts to ensure cross-department coordination and communication, task follow up, schedule conflicts, and risk identification;
• Coordinate cooperation with outsource contractors to ensure the delivery of the highest quality and according to schedule;
• Identify issues, propose solutions, and potentially execute process improvements where appropriate to maximize efficiency across all departments;
• Act as a Scrum Master, facilitate sprint planning, conduct daily standup meetings, hold sprint retrospective meetings, hold sprint reviews, and organize Scrum teams;
• Take meeting notes and communicate them to all relevant parties;
• Ensure clear and timely reporting of project and team status;
• Propose, implement and facilitate process improvements;
• Drive innovative behavior and encourage teams to add value through continuous improvement;
• Create projects postmortem to share the best practices for the processes & procedures as well as key takeaways for future iterations.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of project management experience;
• Knowledge and experience of Agile/Scrum/Waterfall development methodologies;
• Ability to apply different project management methods according to the situation;
• Good project management experience: planning, scheduling, project communication, issue resolution, change request management, risk management, and release management;
• Staffing and people management experience;
• Excellent spoken and written English level;
• Excellent leadership, organization, and problem-solving skills;
• Passion for games.

Would be a plus:

• Experience in managing external contractors;
• Project management experience in game development.