Hybrid Development Manager

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About the role

  • Collaborate with a distributed team of Artists, Producers, Designers and dev partners to drive the roadmap and priorities and work with dependencies across global studio locations.
  • Organize direction, priority, and strategy for complex projects/teams ensuring alignment with leadership.
  • Plan, track, and report sprint efforts for discipline and cross-disciplinary teams.
  • Be deeply involved in features development and resource planning.
  • Build, validate, and manage complex backlogs in support of development efforts.
  • Build healthy, collaborative relationships with external teams or vendors while fostering an inclusive environment.
  • Facilitate alignment through effective communication, problem-solving, risk identification and mitigation strategies.
  • Maintain understanding of game release schedules and forecast project milestones.
  • Manage and develop Design team with feedback, mentorship and career pathing.

Requirements

  • Proficient Production/Project management fundamentals including capacity planning, scope assessment and management, and project milestone planning.
  • Solid grasp of project management software (e.g. JIRA, Microsoft Project, Confluence, Hansoft, etc.).
  • Proven experience managing projects for both short and long iterations; being able to scope varied sizes and length of a project.
  • Possess excellent people leadership skills and consistent record of effective management of senior resources
  • Experience building cohesive teams; identify resourcing needs, providing developmental opportunities and ensuring that all employees reach their potential.
  • Abiding love of video games, playing them, talking about them, creating them!

Job title

Development Manager

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Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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