Project Manager- MUST HAVE GAME EXPERIENCE
6+Month REMOTE Assignment
Pay up to $59 hr w2.
Summary: Responsible for anticipating production challenges and proactively drives solutions that enable teams to realize ideas without compromising quality or well-being. Regularly anticipates, forms a plan of action, and achieves buy-in with teammates. A project manager's primary focus is to provide effective planning and structure - create, modify, and maintain assigned content schedules as a member of team leadership.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Drives production structure, process, and efficiency in overall game development.
- Anticipates and proactively solves problems both independently and collaboratively.
- Creates, modifies, and maintains schedules for assigned content or teams in partnership with assigned Leads. This includes:
- Establishes and tracks status of milestone goals.
- Develops strategy with assigned Leads to ensure all deadlines are met in relation to project objectives and scope.
- Ensures proper logging and tracking of assigned content in bug tracking database.
- Maintains a constant awareness of game content status and quality levels through regular play sessions.
- Anticipates scheduling overruns through effective analysis and presentation of measurable data. Initiates action to resolve scheduling issues and collaborates on workable solutions.
- Proactively ensures project updates and changes are communicated to the development team.
- Unblocks team members from dependencies of scheduled tasks and facilitates communication between team members.
- Assists Senior Project Managers and Project Director in the creation of milestone deliverable documentation, collaborating with craft Leads to coordinate goals across diverse disciplines.
- Contributes to the implementation of new or refined production methods.
- Develops collaborative relationships across all peers and departments.
- Regularly achieves and demonstrates Insomniac’s cultural leadership values.
- Other duties may be assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position does not have any direct supervisory responsibilities; however, it is responsible for maintaining the schedule and structure of a project and keeping team members accountable for the project’s timeline and deadlines.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience: Five plus years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Participation as an Associate Project Manager in the completion of one full game cycle is preferred.
Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents. Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints. Ability to write speeches and articles using original or innovative techniques or style. Ability to make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Skills: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Computer Skills: Knowledge of
Other Skills: Solves problems both independently and collaboratively and adheres to the studio’s expectations of cultural leadership. Strong written and verbal communication skills required. Must be able to present ideas clearly and work well within a large team environment. Must be a good team leader and be able to make informed decisions to achieve desired results. Ability to create and maintain good relationships with other departments.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is regularly required to talk, walk and hear and frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.
Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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