Project Manager (Contract)

The Project Manager plans and executes projects, secures resources, tracks progress, and communicates with team members and clients. They verify contract details and establish realistic schedules, provide regular updates, and adjust deliverables as needed. The Project Manager liaises with external resources and works to ensure communication and alignment between parties. They monitor progress and work closely with the Business Unit and Process Owner to ensure resolution of concerns.

• Ensures that costs incurred are within the agreed estimates and budget.
• Plan, prepare, and monitor project revenue projections. 
• Prepare and submit regular project budget reports and invoices on time for billing.
• Coordinates all additional resources related to the project.
• Additional manpower (e.g. seniors, principals, etc.)
• The required training of the team related to project needs
• Required licenses or tools 
• Secure manpower needed for the project.
• Plan, prepare, and monitor project timelines that align with milestone targets.
• Conduct timely and effective milestone planning to set priorities, tasks, deliverables, and a balanced workload while hitting timeline targets and staying within budget.
• Define project scope and milestones to compose clear statements of work and contract details while monitoring this throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to establish realistic expectations for timelines, budgets, and project deliverables.
• Facilitate and participate in milestone reviews, ensuring work quality, budget management, timeliness of delivery, and alignment to the vision on a regular cadence.
• Drive external stakeholder communication, including external resources (e.g. other game dev studios, art and animation freelancers, and the like), and acting as liaison to clients and/or publishers.
• Provide regular and timely updates about project status, concerns, identified issues and solutions to the business stakeholders.
• Ensure a healthy team culture, efficient collaboration, and clear responsibilities among team members.
• Provide clear and timely communication to the project team on scope, project changes, direction, and timelines.
• Analyze potential risks and create a contingency plan covering all project and resources bases before committing to the client and signing project contracts.
• Identify the options for negotiating project timelines as needed. Request overtime pay or leave credits once all options have been exhausted.
• Facilitate project retrospectives and post-mortems. 
• Develop reports for management retrospectives and ensure follow-through for project retrospective action points.
• Lead business development processes from project assessment, proposal, estimation, quotation, milestone planning and delivery.
• Initiate streamlining and optimizing team processes and workflows, implementing best practices, and ensuring efficient and healthy collaboration.
• Provide employee evaluations to assigned direct reports.
  
  

• Any 4-year degree course preferably related to Arts, Games, Multimedia Arts, Communication of Production background

• Minimum 3 years experience in project/production management roles.
• Led and/or ran successful projects or initiatives.
• Must be amenable to work on a hybrid set-up

Nice to have:

• Shipped at least 5 titles across different platforms and genres.
• 3 years of leadership experience handling teams of 10-15

• This is a full time project-based role for 6 months, with possible extension.
• Attractive salary based on skill level and experience.
• Work alongside colleagues that share same interest and passion for art and video games.
• Stable employment and professional growth in an international environment.
• A culture of diversity and inclusion to unite the most outstanding talents.
• Online training workshops and platforms to level you up.