Description
Our client is a rapidly expanding Northwest games company that has redefined the art of interactive role playing games. If you know games production or other cutting-edge technology production, your skills are valuable-you should contact us today!
OVERVIEW:
- Provides input to junior producers, leads, and other team members
- Plans budgetary items such as project headcount, hardware, and software
- Provides reasonable estimates of time and materials required to complete project vision and scope goals outlined by Producers and Senior Management
- Identifies and prioritizes the key issues that must be addressed for projects to succeed
- Works with teams to identify, analyze, and resolve project problems
- Conducts progress and deliverable reviews during development and adjusts scope and schedule accordingly
- Manages requirements and specifications
- Leads staff working with cross-functional teams to ensure successful requirements management for the project
- Works closely with other managers and project leads to ensure that the entire project life cycle is a quality process
- Drives the use of standards
- Participates in Business process review and redesign
- Implements and tracks related process improvement efforts
- Identifies and communicates organizational and process solutions to mitigate risks
- Establishes processes and work assignments
- Identifies leading-edge techniques and methodologies for their area of expertise
- Serves as liaison with other teams' Business and Technical management
- Submits weekly and monthly communiqués to stakeholders
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Hands-on experience as a Producer/Tech Project Manager, successfully deployed a similar number of systems and in-house applications
- 2-4 years working as a Producer, or similar, managing an external development team
- 2-4 years business development or licensor/licensee relations experience
- 2-4 years experience with project budgetary processes, profit, loss, and return on investment required
- Experience with an asset control system such as CVS or Perforce required
- Experience with project management software such as Microsoft Project or similar required
- BA or BS preferred, MBA or Masters ideal (5+ years of game industry or technology production experience acceptable substitution)
- Highly capable with requirements analysis, software development, databases, hardware, quality assurance, and technology operations
- Experience reconciling iterative software development with a waterfall project methodology, or combination of waterfall and agile (network, infrastructure, or widely cross-functional)
- Data Privacy experience preferred
- Online Registration System experience preferred
- RightNow Technologies or similar CRM system experience highly desirable