Intermediate Project Manager

Cloudhead Games is the veteran VR studio behind Pistol Whip, VR “Game of the Year” winner at DICE 2020, and the fantasy adventure trilogy The Gallery, winner of over 30 awards and nominations including “VR Game of the Year” in 2018. Before Pistol Whip, Cloudhead collaborated with industry-legend Valve to create Aperture Hand Lab, a humorous tech demo set in the Portal universe, for the next-gen Valve Index. Always innovating, Cloudhead Games is also known for its early solutions in VR locomotion/comfort with “Snap Turns” and “Teleportation,” as well as VR motion capture and hand interactions.

As a **Project Manager** at Cloudhead Games, you’ll work closely with the Producers and other Dev Team leadership to own project scope and scheduling. You’re great with analytics and reporting to make sure our stakeholders are up-to-date on where a project is at. You’re comfortable working on multiple projects, and enjoy the creativity of being on a smaller team.

Cloudhead Games is a fully remote company working Pacific Time Zone hours.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Generate visibility to the Producer, the Game Director and the project leaders on the progress of your team. The objective is to allow the team to make the right decisions to improve the content and adapt the scope
- Partner with the producers and project leadership team to create and manage development schedules for features, milestones, or releases
- Manage the scope and capacity of the team throughout the project life cycle while ensuring the quality of deliverables
- Generate and present project status reports for key project stakeholders and the management team
- Analyze results of sprints and milestones, and proposed refinements to the production process to help the team execute at the highest level
- Stay up-to-date on industry trends, especially the VR market, as well as best practices related to project management
- Oversee different projects depending on the scope of each of them

**What we’re looking for**:

- 2+ years of experience in game development, or demonstrable experience with project management in a professional IT environment
- Knowledge of project management software like Jira/Confluence, Office suite or Google Suite
- Understanding of the agile values and mentality
- Excellent time management, organization, interpersonal and communication skills
- Effective decision-making, critical thinking and problem resolution skills

**Nice to have**:

- Scrum Master certification or similar project management certification
- Prior professional experience with game development
- Familiarity with development using Unity3D
- Knowledge of the game industry in general, especially in the VR/AR field

**A little bit about us**:

- We’re an equal opportunity employer We celebrate our diverse team and support our employees’ career and personal development. We offer professional development funds, and career development planning to help our employees’ overall growth.
- We offer a competitive salary and every position at Cloudhead comes with benefits, including extended health and dental coverage (when eligible), as well as extremely generous and flexible time off options.
- We want to share our success We offer profit sharing to all full time employees (when eligible), as our way of saying thank you for helping us get to where we are.
- Work culture is important to us, and we’re really proud of what we’ve built With Studio-wide events, talks, info sessions, bi-weekly company-wide Sync Ups and Happy Hours, we do our best to ensure our team stays connected even while working apart.
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