Senior Project Manager

About Offworld Industries:

Offworld Industries Ltd. (OWI) is the independent studio behind the successful military first-person shooter game, “Squad”. OWI was formed in 2014 by more than 15 developers who had worked together on the well known Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2. The founding purpose of the team was to bring a standalone successor of this acclaimed mod to market and build a game development studio and a livelihood from that foundation.

Fast forward to 2023, OWI has nearly 120 employees and is rapidly growing. We have been expanding the studio into serving as a publisher supporting mods and have just released our new title into early access, “Starship Troopers: Extermination”, a 12-player PvE first-person shooter based on the 1997 cult-classic film.

We are built on passion, unified spirit and continuing efforts to break the mold. We strive to become a leader in creating large-scale multiplayer games as well as supplying others with the ability to do the same. We are looking for a talented Senior Project Manager for our current and upcoming Unreal Engine based multiplayer games. If you are passionate about making great games and a team player, we are looking for you!

About the role:

Offworld Industries is looking for a seasoned Senior Project Manager to join our studio. This position is at our New Westminster Studio, located a short walk from the New West sky train station.  As Senior Project Manager, you’ll fill an important role at Offworld Industries; building out our project management framework, overseeing project schedules and successfully moving game teams through development phases with a focus on quality, team collaboration execution.  You will partner with Project Leads to ensure that their projects are following the project plan and are on time and within budget. Our ideal candidate has experience in all phases of game development and is comfortable creating a robust project plan that is executable.  They are confident and capable in different production methodologies from agile to waterfall, and are well versed in the Atlassian suite of project management tools or similar project management related software.

Responsibilities:

• Constantly communicating with the project teams, coordinating inter-studio and external partner dependencies.
• Proactively mitigate risk for scope and quality.
• Encourage a culture of collaboration with an openness to new ideas or approaches.
• Partner with project leads in establishing a comprehensive project schedule, based on individual task estimates for production and determining the capacity / resources required to successfully deliver the project plan.
• Assist in creating project budgets.
• Build out the studio’s project management framework, to help development teams make the necessary decisions early in the development process.
• Communicate project status, risks and dependencies to studio stakeholders.
• Audit development team’s progress and identify team issues, offering solutions to aid in executing goals and reporting progress to stakeholders.
• Develop and champion the studio’s development framework – the guiding principles and processes that all Project Leads and managers will follow.

Your Qualifications:

• An experienced Project Manager / Development Director with 7+ years of experience in project management and team leadership.
• Management experience working on collaborative, creative projects.
• A love of video games and a passion for making great games with great people.
• Experience in project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
• Experience communicating across all levels of an organization.

This is a full-time permanent position.

This role offers:

• Competitive salary
• Health and dental benefits
• Wellness spending account
• Retirement savings plan
• Employee stock purchase plan
• 3 weeks paid vacation and 2 weeks paid studio shutdown over the December holiday period
• Wonderful colleagues!

If you meet the above qualifications, and Offworld sounds like the kind of company you want to be a part of, please apply now with a cover letter and a copy of your resume.

Offworld Industries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, language, citizenship, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, physical and/or mental handicap, financial ability or any other characteristic protected by law.