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Project Manager (m/f/d)
4 years ago
As a Project Manager you are creating and maintaining transparency of production information, thus enabling decision making on all levels. By defining and driving production processes in close collaboration with team and stakeholders you elevate productivity to optimal levels. While assigned to one of our most successful live games, Seafight, this role will be embedded in the Project Management department, enjoying support and mentoring from a group of seasoned professionals in the field. Over time your project assignments may vary.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with the product owner to retrieve project goals and priorities from company and stakeholders on an ongoing basis
- Clearly communicate identified project goals and priorities to the team and all stakeholders
- Work with the team and product owner to establish and maintain project roadmaps and production plans
- Identify and manage internal and external dependencies
- Manage changing requirements
- Balance the project's resource allocation in close collaboration with product owner and leads
- Track and report on project progress and status
- Identify, raise and resolve production roadblocks and timeline issues ahead of time
- Identify, raise and maintain production risks and mitigation strategies
- Establish a positive and efficient production environment encouraging and enabling the team to deliver
REQUIREMENTS
- 2+ years software development project management experience
- Project management experience in video games, creative and technical environments or online software development is nice to have
- University degree in the fields of project management or comparable qualification is a bonus
- Contributed to successful delivery of software products in the past
- Experience in managing multi-cultural software development teams
- Fluent with modern project management methodologies
- A career focus on development processes rather than creative ownership
- Thriving in high-pressure environments
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
- The ability to interface with all production disciplines (game design, art, tech, etc) as well as external stakeholders
- Excellent leadership skills
- Passion for games
- Fluent in written and spoken English
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