Senior Development Manager

Job Description

Your Platform

Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Melbourne, Australia, Toronto, Canada and Guildford, UK – Sledgehammer Games is the videogame development team behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty®: WWII, and Call of Duty®: Vanguard. Since our founding in 2009, our greatest passion has been making AAA games. The strength of our team makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We firmly believe in supporting our passionate employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker.

We are constantly evolving and innovating – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. With our extraordinary audio, design, engineering, and art teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We love making games and we work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for dedicated game developers for our exciting upcoming projects.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favorite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

Your Mission

As a Senior Development Manager in our Production team, you will lead towards quality targets and own schedules for your team. This is achieved by working closely with various departments to identify needs, applying resources efficiently and appropriately. The role of Senior Development Manager requires candidates to be excellent and persuasive communicators, capable of taking care of a wide variety of internal and external partners. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with owning processes and working with the Lead of the department they support to map out pipelines and workflows for their team. Senior Development Manager candidates must thrive in a challenging and ambiguous environment and be skilled at driving quality in line with team, schedule, and budget. As such, outstanding communication skills and an ability to work well with a diverse set of teams are important characteristics for the role.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Lead a team during development to establish needs, prioritize resources, and then maintain contact with project leadership throughout project to ensure that those aspects of development are progressing appropriately for a high priority AAA title.
• Develop and implement a method for efficiently tracking project status for their teams.
• Be an active participant in reviews of the game content and features, with particular regard to schedule / project milestones.
• Represent Sledgehammer in core game development efforts.
• Work closely with internal and external partners to develop and implement processes for cross-studio collaborations.
• Act as liaison between partners to ensure smooth and effective communication.
• Personally lead several team members, conduct 1:1 meetings and partner with the team Lead to grow their teams' performance and capabilities.

Player Profile
• Multiple shipped game titles, ideally in a Producer or Senior Producer role.
• At least 5 years' experience in the entertainment software industry in a production/coordination role.
• Strong project management fundamentals including capacity planning, scope assessment and management, and deliverable tracking.
• Solid grasp of project management software (e.g. JIRA, Microsoft Project, Confluence, Hansoft, etc.).
• Have an intermediate understanding in the technical process of software development.
• Experience working with external teams.

Extra Points
• Education, certification in Computer Science, project management, business, general management.
• Active video game player across a variety of genres, especially FPS games.
• Experience with performance / career management.
• Experience with Live Services is a plus.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re8227-3-15-221-146-42 in your application.