Senior Project Manager
Trissential
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Project Manager, Cinematics
Insomniac Games
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $60 - $70 per hour
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
TFS
About the role
- CONTRACT ROLE
- Lead and coordinate with vision holders to set Cinematic team goals, ensuring successful documentation, tracking, and implementation of cinematics across the game.
- Manage schedules, facilitate communication, and solve challenges within the development process to deliver cohesive gaming experience.
- Build, modify, and maintain schedules for assigned Pods in partnership with Pod Leads.
- Partner with Track and Pod Leads in the creation of milestone goals deliverables
- Anticipate and solve problems independently and collaboratively to ensure smooth production
- Break down large complex production expectations into smaller actionable deliveries
- Guide stakeholder reviews and feedback process with Pod Leads
- Communicates update to the development team about project changes and progress.
- Facilitate cross-discipline communication and unblock team members from task dependencies
- Maintain awareness of Pod content status through regular play sessions
Requirements
- Five plus years of professional experience or training, or an equivalent amount of education and experience.
- Proven experience in project management for video game development.
- Worked closely with Cinematics teams to assess, track, and follow through on the creation of game wide Cinematic Animations.
- Understanding of pipeline and dependencies of a cross-discipline pod that includes Design, VFX, Audio, Rigging, and Art Can facilitate reviews, follow ups, and drive solution-based conversations.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
- Proficiency in project management software and methodologies.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Responsible for maintaining the schedule and structure of a project and keeping team members accountable for the project’s timeline and deadlines.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
- Working knowledge of bug tracking database(s) is required DevTrack, TFS, Jira, Flow or other industry standard.
- Working knowledge of version control software.
- Perforce is preferred.
- Solves problems both independently and collaboratively and adheres to the studio’s expectations of cultural leadership.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills required.
- Must be able to present ideas clearly and work well within a large team environment.
- Must be a good team leader and be able to make informed decisions to achieve desired results.
- Ability to create and maintain good relationships with other departments.
- Other tasks may be assigned
