Senior Project Manager (Game Development)

TL;DR

Senior Project Manager (Game Development): Leading and coordinating planning and delivery across design, engineering, art, audio, QA, and publishing teams for a narrative-driven game with an accent on maintaining project roadmaps, schedules, and milestone plans. Focus on tracking progress, anticipating bottlenecks, and ensuring seamless communication and release readiness for a highly anticipated game.

Location: Remote (Massachusetts, USA)

Salary: $120,000–$150,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a self-publishing game development studio founded by Ken Levine, focused on creating narrative-driven experiences rooted in immersive world building and gameplay.

What you will do

• Lead and coordinate planning and delivery efforts across design, engineering, art, audio, QA, and publishing teams.
• Collaborate with team leads and studio leadership to build and maintain project roadmaps, feature schedules, and milestone plans.
• Track progress on key deliverables, anticipate bottlenecks, surface risks, and drive proactive solutions.
• Run daily standups, sprint planning sessions, milestone reviews, and retrospectives.
• Manage build schedules and release readiness, including certification timelines, QA coordination, and launch preparedness.
• Serve as a point of contact between cross-functional teams, ensuring goals and expectations are clearly aligned.
• Support the studio's development culture by continuously improving workflows, documentation, tooling, and communication processes.
• Assist with vendor and partner coordination, including platform holders, localization teams, and other external contributors.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a Project Manager, Producer, or Program Manager in the game industry or a closely related field.
• Mastery experience with Jira.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine (4 or 5) and version control systems (e.g., Perforce, Git).
• Strong understanding of game development workflows, pipelines, and production challenges.
• Experience managing complex projects with multiple teams and overlapping dependencies.
• A proactive, adaptable mindset with strong follow-through and problem-solving instincts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a focus on clarity and alignment.
• Ability to thrive in a small, fast-moving, hands-on team environment.
• A passion for games and an interest in participating across the full game development lifecycle.

Nice to have

• Experience with live game operations, release pipelines, or patch scheduling.
• Familiarity with console and platform certification (Xbox, PlayStation, Steam, etc.).
• Exposure to publishing or marketing workflows, including community management and storefront coordination.
• Interest in improving team efficiency through tooling, automation, or workflow optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage.
• 14 paid holidays per calendar year.
• Paid vacation time (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in a 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.
• Eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Hiring process

• Please watch the following GDC talk given by Ken Levine: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020434/Narrative.
• Interviews and job offers are conducted only through official Ghost Story email addresses, not third-party messaging apps.