Technical Project Manager

Overview

1047 Games began with the simple principle that people should have fun while making great games. Bucking convention and driven by a passion to create the ultimate gaming experience, Ian Proulx and Nicholas Bagamian founded 1047 Games in 2017 in their Stanford dorm room. Their love for arena shooters of the past drove them to create Splitgate, a unique sci-fi first-person shooter that adds portal guns to upend the genre. 

What started as two computer science majors putting portals into a first-person shooter for a project demo has evolved into a VC-backed company which has raised more than $120MM in funding. 

At 1047 Games, you’ll find a permanently remote, dedicated team of top-tier talent from some of the world’s biggest gaming and tech companies who share our founders’ vision. Grit, ingenuity, a desire to have fun, and a start up mentality define our crew. We are currently working on a brand new shooter in the Splitgate universe.

What We're Looking For:

• A passionate technical project manager: You love to take on difficult, seemingly impossible problems and dig in to find creative ways to solve them
• A hard worker: You love to put in the extra effort because you enjoy your work and know the impact of finishing the tasks at hand
• Passion for gaming: You can recognize what separates exceptional games from the average ones. You understand the mindset of gamers which enables you to create and implement features that will further benefit the game

What You Will Be Doing:

• Work with the Engineering and Technical Art departments on a daily basis to ensure adherence to project schedules and budgets
• Collaborate with the Engineering and Technical Art leads to manage requirements, development, and maintenance of technical initiatives
• Work with heads of development on internal initiatives for improving internal pipelines and creating long term plans
• Balance day-to-day maintenance with long-term planning. Recognize that production is not all about fighting fires
• Curate and facilitate the maintenance of technical documentation
• Work closely with other departments to champion cross-departmental efforts on behalf of Engineering and Technical Art
• Identify and communicate all roadblocks or bottlenecks that may prevent teams from achieving established goals within their sprints/milestones
• Gather estimates and work with developers to evaluate feature complexity and risk
• Provide data to ensure that project goals, objectives, milestones and deliverable requirements are realistic and achievable
• Establish and communicate production estimates, including estimates for when targets will be hit
• Work with the product owners and team leads to produce realistic schedules and milestone plans for the technical engineering teams

What you will need to succeed:

• 5+ years' experience in technical project management
• Demonstrated ability driving complex projects
• Track record of time-management skills with the ability to focus on priorities, manage change and deliver against agreed deadlines 
• Good sense of perspective - able to switch between "details" and "big picture" as needed
• Experience with scheduling tools, managing conflict, risk analysis and mitigation
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals
• Capable of multitasking and managing several important items at once, without allowing anything to be lost in the process
• Must be able to effectively communicate risks and obstacles both to managed team members, as well as Studio Management
• Strong understanding and experience in the software development process 
• Willing to commit and take responsibility for timelines and deliverables
• Flexibility, support and willing to manage the impact of change

What will help you to succeed:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or engineering degree 
• Shipped at least 1 AAA title
• Experience working with remote studios and contractors
• Experience writing high level technical designs
• Experience shipping console game titles including dealing with first party certification processes