Technical Project Manager (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Technical Project Manager (Gamedev): Managing development teams to deliver and deploy consumer-facing software on various devices with an accent on coordinating project activities and resolving open issues. Focus on maintaining project schedules and supervising progress across geographically distributed teams.

Location: This role requires ongoing management of teams across two geographic areas – Berlin, Germany and California. Occasional travel required, attending in-person workshops or conferences in the US or internationally. Typically once per quarter or less.

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in entertainment, producing the PlayStation family of products and services.

What you will do

• Lead and supervise the tasks and deliverables of individual teams.
• Drive projects, coordinate project activities, and resolve open issues.
• Assist with the coordination of projects, gathering requirements, identifying project vision, and developing project schedules.
• Maintain project schedules and supervise, influence, and direct progress, working with engineers, creatives, and management.
• Report project progress, status, and risks to project partners.
• Manage the portfolio of a cross-functional and geographically distributed team of Business Analysts, Data Engineers, Service Reliability Engineers, and Data Scientists working on data pipelines, data transport, transformation, storage, and analytics.

Requirements

• At least 5-6 years of experience in Project Management and the full SDLC.
• Experience working on and shipping commercial software development projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven experience with modern software development methodologies, especially SCRUM/Agile.
• Excellent communication, expectation management, and facilitation skills.
• Expert in JIRA.

Nice to have

• SCRUM Master certified, with experience operating and leading SCRUM teams.
• Commercial Software and/or Consumer Electronics experience is a plus.
• Experience in leading infrastructure, platform or enablement programs for internal customers.
• Gaming and start-up experience is a plus.
• Programming or engineering education or background a plus.
• Experience in managing distributed storage solutions (e.g. Amazon S3, Ceph, Hadoop, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience in big data distributed messaging and processing technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform

Culture & Benefits

• Striving to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity.
• Passionate and curious for innovation, technology, and play.