Senior Development Manager

WE ARE GAMEMAKERS

Who We Are:

We are a diverse team of developers driven by a passion for our art united by our core values and inspired by a culture of inclusivity to build amazing games that thrill players everywhere. We pursue growth and innovation in an environment of safety and trust. Our culture is built on the belief that the more varied voices in our collective will strengthen our team and our games. We are looking for our next teammate who will raise our bar and make us better.

We are currently working on Project ETHOS a new free-to-play 3rd person rogue-like hero shooter and an exciting evolution on the genre!

Who You Are:

Were looking to add a thoughtful and strategic Senior Development Manager to facilitate communication and support one of our content teams in achieving a high level of excellence and player engagement on our high-priority AAA project. You will work with a team of talented Designers Artists Producers and cross-discipline Leads to balance scope with capacity track progress implement and improve processes mentor people and mitigate risks while upholding and maintaining a high quality bar.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a distributed team of Designers Artists Producers and dev partners to drive the roadmap and priorities for your team and work with dependencies across global studio locations.
• Organize the direction priority and strategy for complex projects/teams while ensuring alignment with internal and external leadership.
• Be deeply involved in features development and resource planning.
• 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 the Design team with thoughtful feedback mentorship and career pathing.

Required Qualifications:

• Proficient 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.
• Leverage experience building cohesive teams; identify resourcing needs providing developmental opportunities and ensuring that all employees reach their potential.
• You have an abiding love of video games playing them talking about them creating them!

The pay range for this position in California at the start of employment is expected to be between $125000 and $175000 per year. However base pay offered is based on market location and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates such as job-related knowledge skills experience and other objective business considerations. Subject to those same considerations the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements including a bonus and/or equity awards in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired employee will be in an at-will position and the company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

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