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Technical Program Manager

Who We Are:

Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple technologies, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is growing due to our global strategic plan, building, and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers, and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

Mass Media is the premier engineering group for 2K Publishing’s Global Services. Since 1995, we’ve developed deep and multifaceted engineering expertise in video games. Whether it's platform optimization, multiplayer/networking, rendering, console certification, tools, and pipelines – we’ve done it all! Because we're part of Global Services Technology, we're at the heart of all our games. We provide the engineering to support the matrix of platforms and storefronts of today, innovative technical solutions to the problems of tomorrow, and connective tissue across 2K's studios! In short, when some of the best studios in the world have needs, we can answer the call.

What We Need:

2K Publishing Tech delivers innovative solutions to our studios and supports all of their technology needs to ensure they can focus on building incredible games. The Technical Program Manager will need to apply their experience and skills across a variety of roles including project and program management, change management, process improvement and documentation, requirements definition, tracking schedules, budgets, and action items, and most importantly, forging strong relationships across the business. They need the interpersonal and organizational skills to navigate our complex and fast-paced environment.

What You Will Do:

• Establish, maintain and drive delivery against multiple project schedules
• Capture requirements, write user-stories, and prioritize backlogs for development teams in an Agile environment
• Work with cross-functional partners and studios to identify, document, and communicate project / program scope, schedule, risks, and issues
• Establish and drive successful quality assurance of our products, including test plan review and testing as needed
• Proactively identify, track and drive resolution of blocking issues and non-engineering action items
• Ensure that vision, relevant key indicators, and roadmap are established with accountable portfolio leads
• Identify and manage dependencies and risks across projects and teams
• Actively communicate status (roadmap, OKRs, potential high impacting risks, impediment, etc.) and achievements
• Identify and drive process improvement throughout the engineering organization

Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit:

You are passionate about technology and you are excited about bringing innovative capabilities to empower studios to make incredible game experiences for consumers. You understand what it means to bring organization in a fast-paced environment that is minimally disruptive. You are interested in exploring opportunities to apply technology to address opportunities in the area of video game backend services, digital sales, marketing, and distribution. You consider excellence in communication to be one of, if not your strongest asset across all mediums.

• Agile product management experience
• Understands data analytics to identify key performance indicators, manage integration of data pipelines, and perform data analysis to drive insights.
• Experience documenting business processes in Visio for current and future state workflows. Value stream mapping a plus
• Demonstrated strategic planning, strategic facilitation, and presentation
• BA/BS or equivalent in STEM or software related fields
• 4+ years of experience in a technical role delivering solutions (e.g. PM, QA, SWE, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to interact, influence and align with all levels of an organization; both internal and external, technical and non-technical
• Demonstrated ability to influence and drive consensus

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

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