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 on 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 upon cleanly and in-line with the PGF.
Requirements
A passion to serve 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 nice to have