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Lead Project Manager
Sony Bend Studio, world-class creator of Days Gone , Uncharted: Golden Abyss , and Syphon Filter , is seeking outstanding talent to join our passionate and creative family in crafting our next high-profile AAA title.
The Lead Project Manager will operate in an extensive leadership role with the studio, responsible for coordinating activities in a Scaled Agile environment, working with multiple stakeholders, product owners, craft leads, producers, and cross-discipline Scrum Teams to develop potentially shippable product increments/deliverables each sprint.
- Lead others across all levels of the studio with the implementation of Scrum and other key Agile systems for an effective delivery of the project, including Milestone, Release, & Sprint Planning.
- Plan and track release schedules against the defined live roadmap.
- Help ensure cross discipline team communication, alignment, collaboration, and execution of core features based on priorities and defined deliverables.
- Manage project scope based on current team velocities and milestone schedules.
- Key role in identifying studio development risks and creating on-going mitigation strategies to address them.
- Lead our agile strategy and processes in alignment with our studio goals, the specific needs of our teams, and key phases of development (pre-production, production, live services).
- Foster collaboration and mentor others on the implementation of Scrum for an effective delivery of the project, including Milestone, Release, & Sprint Planning.
- Train and coach our studio leadership, development teams and individuals on agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban; tailoring the approach to best fit our environment, including the creation of internal agile training and reference materials such as documentation and videos.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement; encouraging teams to inspect and adapt their methods to optimize efficiency and product quality.
- Act as a change agent to resolve conflicts, remove obstacles, and champion the adoption of agile methodologies throughout the organization.
- Lead in the creation of development systems and tools for analyzing, measuring, and reporting our development throughput, with the goal of improving our overall efficacy. Measure and report on the progress and success of our studio’s agile transformation, adjusting strategies, as necessary.
- Refine our supporting production tools such as Jira to better support our agile processes.
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