Become a Devotee!
Devoted Studios is a production management company for external development in video games. With a mission to create equal opportunity for all talent globally to work on the games of their dreams, Devoted Studios aims to decentralize game development. We partner with 1400+ programmers, artists, and designers, from freelancers to small studios, all over the world, and not only match them to project opportunities but manage the production from A-Z.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage timelines and production schedules for 2D and 3D art production.
- Review vendor estimates, put together production budgets. Own project P&L
- Manage and own task estimation, identify and timely communicate risks, identify critical path impediments
- Lead production meetings with clients and vendors and create actionable items for the art team
- Collaborate with the Creative Leads on the quality bar for a variety of game art disciplines including: ui, environments, characters, VFX, lighting and animation
- Work with production, engineering and other disciplines to ensure a collaborative, efficient approach to the creative development of the game
- Lead planning and agile sprints for the creatives
- Communication with Vendors / Partners
- Scheduling and managing the projects
- Reporting
Jobs to do on Daily Basis:
- Production related processes and documentation design and implementation
- Client Communication:
- Created bids, decks and proposals for the clients
- Presenting with BD and AD team proposals
- Leading client production meeting, sending team plans and reports
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Vendor Communication:
- Based on Clients requests, create vendor RFPs
- Managing RFP process with vendors from initial request to final estimate and price negotiation
- Maintaining good relationship with vendors, communicating bidding process results
- Supporting and leading vendors throughout production to achieve highest project efficiency and smooth production
- Filling in Estimation Summaries based on the collected information
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Project Management:
- Creating Project Plans
- Maintain Project P&L
- Filling in and maintaining accuracy project start and project management related documentation
- Production Risk plan Development
- Informing all the participants / reminding about the milestones, key due dates, etc
Requirements:
- English: Advanced
- PM Experience: 4/5+years at Gamedev projects management
- Thorough knowledge and experience in project management, methodologies and tools
- Attentiveness to details and documents creation is a must
- Ability to design and document agile production processes
- Ability to understand and negotiate critical art requests versus displacement of scheduled work
- Experience with JIRA, Perforce and other Project Management Tools
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to present to large audiences including, but not limited to, the senior executive staff
- Strong self-organization skills
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing large internal development teams; ability to inspire and motivate
Become a Devotee!
Join our Devoted Team
(fill out the form or submit your CV to [email protected])
