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Data Project Manager (contract) - Maxis

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. Our drive is to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play. As the developer of the Sims, we create games and experiences for millions of people around the world and are always looking for new ways to inspire our players. Maxis is a place where you can do what you love and help others grow while doing it; a place where your unique voice can be heard and seen. We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don't settle for seeing the world only as it is, but strive to build a world as it could be. Read on to see how you can join our team and dream big.

Role: Data Project Manager

Location: Remote North America - open to most North America locations

As a Data Project Manager at Maxis, you'll report to the Lead Product Manager and work with a team of enthusiastic industry craftspeople from all walks of life. You will use your passion and knowledge to be the champion of telemetry within Maxis so that the team can use our data to guide development of player-first experiences that surprise, delight, and invite millions of Simmers around the world to Play with Life.

Responsibilities:

• You will champion data informed game development. You will be the primary steward of telemetry within the game team by tracking data hook requests and ensuring implementation of those requests.
• You will highlight and celebrate new dashboards and other data insights that aid the development process
• You will work with multiple development partners to improve on the studio’s data infrastructure and identify dependencies between discipline groups
• You will be the driving force that solves breakdowns in the data and telemetry process and create solutions for the future
• You will identify when game telemetry is not operating correctly and bring together the teams needed to solve the issue
• You will write detailed documentation for telemetry and data requested by product managers and other game stakeholders to ensure its posterity.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience working as a Data project manager in the mobile gaming space
• Previous role as a project manager working with multiple different disciplines with competing desires
• Experience working with technical and non-technical audiences
• Excited to manage processes that increase data knowledge and efficiency among a game development team
• Comfortable with JIRA, Miro and online collaboration suites such as Confluence.
• Knowledge of and enthusiasm for gaming