Accountabilities:

Project Management Team Leadership: Lead, manage, and develop the project management team by establishing clear expectations for project ownership, communication, planning, and execution. Provide ongoing coaching, constructive feedback, and professional development opportunities to strengthen individual and collective performance.
Workload and Resource Management: Oversee project assignments and workload distribution, ensuring team capacity, project complexity, and organizational priorities remain balanced. Equip project managers with the context, tools, and support required to manage initiatives independently and effectively.
Portfolio Planning and Delivery: Maintain an integrated overview of publishing activities, including game launches, marketing campaigns, live operations, and external partner projects. Ensure project plans reflect business priorities, realistic timelines, available resources, and critical dependencies.
Project Performance and Risk Management: Monitor project health across the publishing portfolio, identifying scheduling conflicts, capacity constraints, delivery risks, and dependencies that may affect multiple initiatives. Recommend adjustments to scope, sequencing, or resources in collaboration with publishing leadership.
Executive Reporting: Provide clear and concise updates on portfolio performance, key milestones, project risks, resource availability, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
Cross-Functional Coordination: Act as a senior operational partner across Brand, Creative, Communications, Community, User Acquisition, Storefront, Production, and other relevant teams. Establish clear ownership, timelines, approval processes, and decision-making responsibilities across projects.
Stakeholder Management: Build trusted relationships with functional leaders and publishing stakeholders, helping resolve competing priorities, clarify responsibilities, and facilitate effective decision-making. Ensure changes affecting project scope, development schedules, or campaign commitments are communicated promptly.
Game Development and Publishing Alignment: Oversee coordination between marketing project management, game development, and production teams. Ensure publishing plans account for development milestones, content readiness, feature releases, build availability, and other critical dependencies.
Change Management and Escalation: Evaluate the impact of development or production changes on marketing deliverables and launch readiness. Establish effective communication and escalation practices while respecting development workflows and minimizing unnecessary disruption.
Publishing Operations and Process Improvement: Own the development and continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, reporting systems, and operational practices. Introduce scalable approaches to integrated planning, dependency management, approvals, risk tracking, and portfolio visibility.
Workflow Optimization: Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce unnecessary administrative work, and improve delivery predictability without compromising creative flexibility or slowing decision-making.
Continuous Improvement: Lead project retrospectives and post-launch reviews, translating lessons learned into practical improvements. Partner with publishing leadership to evolve operational practices as organizational needs and publishing activities expand.
External Partner and Vendor Management: Ensure project managers establish clear scopes, timelines, deliverables, and approval processes with external agencies, vendors, freelancers, and production partners.
Budget and Financial Oversight: Oversee project-level budget tracking, vendor commitments, forecasts, and financial reporting. Collaborate with finance and marketing stakeholders to identify budget variances and upcoming financial commitments.
Launch and Campaign Readiness: Oversee planning and execution for major game launches and integrated marketing campaigns, from initial kickoff through post-launch evaluation. Ensure plans incorporate creative production, communications, community engagement, user acquisition, storefront activities, localization, development dependencies, and external partners.

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