Senior Manager, Production (Game Development)

TL;DR

Senior Manager, Production (Game Development): Owns the architecture, governance, and forecasting of the game’s integrated production schedule in support of delivering a AAA action-adventure game with an accent on ensuring the integrity, predictive reliability, and executive transparency. Focus on driving structured, data-informed decision-making with directors and discipline leads to protect scope, quality, and milestone commitments.

Location: Remote

Salary: $200,000 - $250,000

Company

That's No Moon is an independent studio of storytellers and game-makers who believe in the power of narrative-driven experiences.

What you will do

• Drive structured, data-informed decision-making to protect scope, quality, and milestone commitments.
• Maintain the integrated cross-department macro schedule, including milestone architecture, feature sequencing, and dependency mapping.
• Enforce schedule discipline across pillars by identifying variance, forecast drift, and dependency risk.
• Maintain formal risk tracking, identify and flag delivery risks early, and escalate when appropriate.
• Produce standardized executive reporting that communicates schedule health, forecast accuracy, and dependency risk.
• Provide forward-looking delivery forecasts and scenario modeling to support executive planning and scope decisions.

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering AAA video games, preferably action-adventure or narrative-driven titles with complex cross-discipline dependencies and milestone-driven production cycles.
• Demonstrated expertise in constructing and maintaining integrated production schedules.
• Advanced proficiency with Jira.
• Strong analytical capability and ability to translate production data into velocity trends and schedule variance insights.
• Experience producing executive-level reporting that enables clear scope, risk, and investment decisions.
• 8+ years of experience in production or project management roles within complex game development environments.

Nice to have

• Experience building or refining production planning frameworks, reporting standards, or schedule governance practices within large-scale game development teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive and comprehensive benefits that include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, unlimited PTO, supplemental life and disability, and more.
• Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part-time or temporary employees.
• Equal opportunity employer.