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Senior Manager, Production
2 years ago
Pixelberry Studios is a top mobile games developer, creating fun and engaging games with heart for over nine years. We’re a division of Nexon, one of the Top 10 largest gaming companies in the world. Our studio is 3-for-3 launching games into the App Store's Top 25 Grossing chart. Our market-leading, award-winning mobile game, Choices: Stories You Play, broke into the Top 5 in the App Store. Our vision for success is based around innovative game design, diversity, and putting our players first!
We've seen firsthand the positive impact that games can make. Because of that, we leverage our commercial success to make a real difference: we have partnered with numerous non-profits, saved actual lives with our games, and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities. Players love our games’ focus on racial, gender, sexual, and identity diversity while holding us accountable when they expect more.
Some of us at Pixelberry have worked together for over 10 years through multiple companies. As a result, we strive to create long-term relationships that help sustain our success. We continue to add new individuals who aren’t just searching for another stepping stone but a place to put down roots and actively make a difference. We love what we do and are looking for passionate, like-minded people who want to grow, learn, and make a difference together.
SUMMARY OF POSITION
Pixelberry Studios is looking for a Senior Manager who is detail-oriented, self-motivated, and passionate to join the Choices: Stories You Play Content Team. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, understanding of priorities, ability to handle multiple projects, and a great team player.
Our headquarters is in Mountain View, CA but we can accommodate a remote work environment for a candidate from the following states: CA, OR, WA, and NV.
Currently, all Pixelberry staff are working remotely. Hybrid work model (1 day/week in-office) will be in place once we resume on-site operations, currently scheduled for January 2022.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Report to the Executive Producer and work with the other content team to plan and schedule Choices books.
- Train, manage and mentor direct reports.
- Identify high potential risks to schedules and deliverables and surface to EP and Content Leads and help mitigate them.
- Ensure clear and great communication on the status of the Choices books.
- Have an excellent understanding of a wide range of leadership, management, communication, and production practices.
- Document and develop new processes as well as refine, improve and streamline our current production processes.
- Foster healthy communication within the team and work to maintain our healthy company culture.
- Provide improvements and present solutions to complex challenges across game production.
- Keep up-to-date with industry trends and offer strategic insight on what Choices could be doing better.
- Ability to remain calm and focused under pressure while working on assignments with particularly demanding schedules.
- Ensure morale is high and keep the team motivated.
REQUIREMENTS
- 8+ years of experience in game development in a production and management role and 5+ yrs of managing and mentoring direct reports.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of departments
- Good understanding of game development and product development practices such as Waterfall and Agile
- Experienced using various industry tools such as Jira, Confluence, Asana, Google Sheets, etc.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, leadership, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.
- Ability to analyze processes and information, identify problems and trends, and develop effective solutions and strategies.
- Proactive and highly organized.
- BA / BS or equivalent industry experience.
POSTITIVES
- Experience in managing external teams
- Experience in scripting such as Google App Scripts
- Experience in (and love for) narrative or interactive fiction games
- Experience in (and love for) casual and/or female-focused mobile games
BENEFITS & PERKS
- Competitive salary
- High level of autonomy and freedom
- Rich & flexible health, disability, and employee assistance offerings to meet the needs of a diverse workforce
- 401(K) with matching program
- Paid Year-End Break
- Relaxed office environment with free food and snacks and WFH Tuesdays and Thursdays (pre-COVID)
- Virtual escape rooms, video game nights, trivia parties, and other team-building activities throughout the year!
HOW THIS JOB IS DIFFERENT
- Learn about the business side of mobile games. Our team is very good at what we do.
- Good work/life balance. We are family-friendly and look at things in the long term.
- That warm fuzzy feeling that you’re not just making a difference at a company, but in the lives of people all over the world.
Pixelberry Studios values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, Black/BIPOC, LGBT individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. Pixelberry is also an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.
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