Senior Development Manager

Job Description

31st Union is seeking a Senior Development Manager to facilitate communication and support one of its content teams. The ideal candidate will be strategic and thoughtful, helping the team achieve excellence and player engagement on a high-priority AAA project.Role involves:

• Collaborating with a distributed team of Designers, Artists, Producers, and dev partners.
• Organizing direction, priority, and strategy for complex projects/teams.
• Being deeply involved in features development and resource planning.
• Building healthy, collaborative relationships with external teams or vendors.
• Facilitating alignment through effective communication, problem-solving, risk identification, and mitigation strategies.
• Maintaining understanding of game release schedules and forecast project milestones.
• Managing and developing the Design team with thoughtful feedback, mentorship, and career pathing.

Requirements:

• Proficient project management fundamentals.
• Solid grasp of project management software.
• Proven experience managing projects for both short and long iterations.
• Excellent people leadership skills.
• Experience building cohesive teams.
• An abiding love of video games.

Role offers:

• Opportunity to work on Project ETHOS, a new free-to-play, 3rd person rogue-like hero shooter.
• A culture of inclusivity and innovation.
• A chance to mentor and develop a Design team.