Senior Development Manager (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Development Manager (Gamedev): Facilitating communication and supporting content teams for a AAA free-to-play rogue-like hero shooter with an accent on scope management, risk mitigation, and maintaining a high-quality bar. Focus on features development, resource planning, and people management within a distributed team environment.

Location: #LI-Onsite #LI-Hybrid

Salary: $125,000 and $175,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a diverse team of developers driven by a passion for their art, united by core values and inspired by a culture of inclusivity to build amazing games.

What you will do

• Collaborate with a distributed team of Designers, Artists, Producers and dev partners to drive the roadmap and priorities for your team.
• 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.
• Manage and develop the Design team with thoughtful feedback, mentorship and career pathing.

Requirements

• 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!

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage.
• 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program.
• Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave.
• Wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses.