Project Manager - nDreams Studio (Hybrid)

We are nDreams, a world-leading game developer and publisher with nearly a decade of VR specialism. Combining a drive to push technological boundaries with proven gaming excellence, we are the team who set the standard for VR action games with Fracked and the award-winning Phantom: Covert Ops.

With our team’s triple-A credentials and sensibilities, alongside bespoke VR technologies, we’ve got the skillset, processes and creative vision to deliver innovative, high-end games for all VR platforms and genres. If it’s VR gaming, you will find nDreams at the forefront of it.

Our projects continue to advance the present and define the future of VR. Want to be a part of it? Apply today to join a studio with a state-of-the art collaborative workflow and diverse talents assembled from world-leading games developers and publishers.

Here at nDreams we are looking for a Project Manager to join us on our path of creating truly immersive VR experiences.

As the Project Manager you are the facilitator. You are responsible for proactively coordinating the development team within studio by owning the day-to-day relationship with team members to ensure all needs, requirements and expectations are met while also planning to manage risk.

You will also coordinate and prioritise the day-to-day activities of cross-discipline staff (Art, Code, Design, Audio, QA, etc.) at every stage of a title’s development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the design, development and release process across the project.
• Be the communication liaison between departments to ensure on time delivery of games.
• Construct and maintain a detailed plan of the project including tasks and dependencies, and provide analysis of the plan to foresee issues with scope vs assigned resources.
• Develop ongoing tracking and communication of roadmaps, sprint backlogs, task lists and any other systems or tools used in the management and coordination of development activities to ensure that the product is on track for delivery.
• Proactively identify, report and take ownership of unblocking any day-to-day issues arising within development to keep production efficient and operational whilst ensuring that expectations are fulfilled and requirements related to content, characters, game play, technology and marketing are met.
• Lead feature teams to establish and maintain realistic sprint scope and ensuring that they do not suffer from ‘feature-creep’.
• Support the Game Director and Senior Producer in communicating task priorities and assist team members in understanding how current tasks and activities contribute to the overall development and vision.
• Keep track of budget throughout game development to ensure that titles come in on budget and achieve the high-quality standards required by nDreams.
• Perform and refine best-practice project management techniques to ensure smooth and efficient delivery of development milestones.
• Continually monitor development teams’ and projects’ current and future health and status; conduct on-going risk analysis and provide mitigation solutions to the senior project team.
• As Scrum Master, own the team agile process and confidently lead all necessary Scrum ceremonies while constantly finding ways to improve and learn.
• Drive continuous improvement of process methodologies to support sustainable working practices, timely delivery, communication, and team health, whilst staying on top of every detail.
• Ensure that project status is visible to the senior management, providing regular updates to stakeholders at all levels and taking full accountability for feature delivery status.
• Assist Product Producer with creation and maintenance of a strategic capacity roadmap for the studio.
• Mentor and coach other members of the team in agile practices and production software.