Technical Project Manager

Job Description

We are looking for a Game Development Project Manager to coordinate and support our software development team. Duties include managing timelines, handling scrum events, and resolving problems on Agile methodologies. Ultimately, you’ll help create self-organizing teams that are flexible and fully productive during sprints. You’ll also need the ability to coordinate people and projects (occasionally facilitating changes) with your mindset on deliverables. If you’re a strong communicator, a capable leader and you're invested in Agile frameworks, we’d like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with internal teams and manage game development partners
• Facilitates daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective
• Manage the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releases
• Create or analyze business requirements documents and project timelines
• Guides team in time estimating practices and facilitates team estimates
• Drive team iteration execution, communicates with management and stakeholders, and protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work (changes are evaluated/intentional)
• Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance
• Work with the team leads to resolve people problems and project roadblocks
• Able to do post-mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity
• Leads team effort in relentless improvement, defining and implementing improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program
• Implement and support principles, rules, and processes
• Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow
• Maintain team data in project management software (i.e., JIRA, Notion, etc.) to support estimates and execution
• Presents high-level project readouts for senior management
• Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope
• Manage other special projects as assigned
• Other duties as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer or Information Science-related field
• At least 1 to 3 years of related experience
• Organized with attention to detail.
• Excellent analytical, logical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Thorough understanding of project management principles and information technology procedures and practices.
• Proficient with a range of general and specialized applications, software, and hardware used in the organization and the industry.
• Knowledgeable of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)