Tracking and reviewing development progress across a portfolio of games that will be in various stages of development.
Building productive and open relationships with internal and external Development Teams, supporting functions (Platform & Mobile Product and Engineering, Creative Production, Localization, and QA), and Licensing leadership.
Supporting the maintenance and evolution of our Production Games Framework (PGF) to ensure on-track development, identifying possible issues with the product/content development, whether that be resource challenges, time constraints, technical hurdles, or quality.
Consistently engage with leadership to identify potential issues in the development cycle, narrow down solutions in partnership with the development teams, and support resolution.
Find opportunities to introduce and optimize operational and production workflows.
Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure game launches are executed cleanly and in line with the PGF.
Requirements:
A passion for serving the needs of production and cross-functional teams within the Netflix organization.
Must be comfortable working with ambiguity and able to drive projects to completion with transparency and clarity.
Significant experience in Project/Program Management for software development.
Experience with games across various genres from casual to core.
Experience managing projects through the development lifecycle from business case/pre-production to launch/post-launch management. Has worked on content development/release and live operations through the game lifecycle.
Experience working on multiple projects simultaneously.
Experience in partner management, internally or externally, working with licensors a plus.
A history of collaboration with release management, production, and live operations of games.
Strong relationship-building skills.
Proactive risk management.
Adept at collaboratively moving from uncertainty to clarity.
Excellent, precise, and proactive communicator.
Technical Project Management / Program Management / Production experience is nice to have.