Responsibilities:
:: Collaborate with the art, design, programming leads and project management to coordinate, schedule, track, and manage the project’s production requirements to ensure that project tasks are completed on time
:: Contribute to the development and refinement of the production management processes to increase production efficiency and quality
:: Coordinate and communicate both medium and long term development plans, as well as day to day tasking, predicting issues and troubleshooting where needed
:: Coordinate and align workflow across multi-disciplinary teams
:: May lead or assist with managing the dependencies and development process with internal and external partners including the Audio, Legal, QA , Marketing and outsource groups
Qualifications:
:: At least 3-5 years of project management experience in online or console game development, combining experience in industry disciplines, including programming, art, technology or project management
:: Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of personnel in art, design, programming and management
:: Experience creating project schedules and monitoring the progress of department milestones and individual tasks against those schedules
:: Demonstrated ability to implement and succeed appropriate production processes in regard to specific needs of individual teams
:: Excellent organization and prioritization skills, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task
:: Strong knowledge of MS Office including Excel, Word and Power Point
:: Experience managing a team through a minimum of one full cycle of video game development
Desired skills and pluses:
:: Ability to identify, anticipate risks, and engage in creative problem solving
:: Proactively takes on own initiatives to suggest and improve project management tools and processes
:: Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence and other project management tools and applications
:: Development experience as a discipline specific contributor (artist, designer, programmer or QA