Devoted Studios is a production management company for external development in video games. With a mission to create equal opportunity for all talent globally to work on the games of their dreams, Devoted Studios aims to decentralize game development. We partner with 1400+ programmers, artists, and designers, from freelancers to small studios, all over the world, and not only match them to project opportunities but manage the production from A-Z.

*This is a remote, full-time contracted position and we are hiring worldwide!

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in an appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of project management experience, including tracking and planning projects
• 5+ years of experience working with business stakeholders within a cross-functional matrix environment
• 1+ years of previous experience with gathering requirements from the client/business and documentation
• 3+ years of experience with full product lifecycle with an understanding of development lifecycle and various technology methodologies that support that lifecycle
• Excellent experience in Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall
• Excellent experience in Jira

Role Requirements:

• Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and accountability of business needs
• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business objective
• Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate and enhance performance within a cross-functional environment
• Demonstrate decisiveness in resolving problems, making decisions, and identifying priorities
• Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across, and down multiple business and technology organizations
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
• Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal, and presentation), and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands
• Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary
• Experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule, and within-budget close
• Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors and demonstrated communication skills; both written and oral with technical and non-technical staff, all levels of management

GOALS

• Illuminating inefficiencies throughout the production process to grow and support distributed asset creation
• Maintain high-level satisfaction of clients
• Introduce trackable KPIs for Dev projects and quarterly reports on achieving those KPIs / OKRs
• Manage onboardings
• Define missing roles, management and support of all the production
• Grow engineering production based on the yearly target goals
• Manage and mentor producers
• Track team performance
• Maintain Pre-production transition to Production, insure that team has has everything in place to kick-off the project
• Constantly track project margin to insure we hit the target
• Maintain Devoted branding and style when sharing documents with clients
• Projects quality control

Responsibilities

• Working with the internal team on improving the outsourcing pipeline, incl trainings
• Research best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data and use continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results
• Management support of projects
• Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution
• Support Production with onboarding and coaching new producers
• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables
• Develop team schedules and assist in the successful onboarding and training of team members
• Create and communicate a clear list of expectations and goals for team members to follow
• Regularly lead one-2-one meetings with producers to evaluate their performance and provide frequent feedback, address weaknesses or inefficiencies, and offer support to improve skill gaps
• Maintain frequent communication to offer encouragement, amend tasks, and provide updates on goal progress
• Implement incentives to keep the team motivated and focused on their daily tasks project goals
• Quickly and effectively resolve team conflicts
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related matters, including scope, schedule, budget, risks/issues, and quality
• Define project objectives, success criteria, and deliverables in collaboration with the team on requirements
• Develop and execute detailed project plans, ensuring that all project activities are properly sequenced and resourced
• Monitor and report on project progress, performance, and health against established metrics, thresholds, and baselines
• Identify, track, and resolve issues and risks proactively, escalating as necessary to ensure timely resolution
• Manage and control changes to the project baseline in accordance with established change management processes
• Facilitate regular project status meetings and other communications forums as needed
• Prepare and distribute accurate and timely project reports from producers
• Conduct post-project reviews to document lessons learned and identify opportunities for process improvement
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant project management methodologies, tools, and techniques

Benefits

• Strong and enthusiastic team – you will have the opportunity for knowledge sharing, learning, and professional self-development
• Interesting and challenging tasks – solve diverse and difficult issues, communicate with people within the company as well as with our partners;
• Convenient working conditions – remote work, the opportunity to build your own working day with flexible working hours
• А chance to work in a highly professional and dynamic team working with a wide range of International Game Production projects, attractive remuneration package, and opportunities to develop professionally.

This is a remote, full-time contracted position.

We are an equal opportunity company and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for a contract without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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