Program Manager

PLAYSTUDIOS, Inc. is the creator of the groundbreaking playAWARDS loyalty platform, and a publisher and developer of award-winning mobile games, including the iconic Tetris® mobile app, POP! Slots, myVEGAS Slots, myVEGAS Blackjack, my KONAMI Slots, myVEGAS Bingo, and MGM Slots Live. Besides USA and Asia, Playstudios Europe has opened its doors in Belgrade in 2021. We are working on the Pop! Slots and MGM Slots Live games and from this year, we are working on the new Tetris® app. We are a dynamic and young-minded environment, blooming with talented developers, creatives, quality assurance professionals and other leaders working together to change the face of social gaming!

Our team is looking for a brilliant and experienced Program Manager, an agile champion, that will be responsible for effectively and efficiently managing the development sprints from planning through execution and review in an agile development environment. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Work closely with the Product Director, Creative Director & Development Teams to define and develop the workflows of our projects.
• Responsible for the full lifecycle from project planning, effort estimations, resources allocation, schedule, risk analysis, development tracking to project delivery
• Manage the different development projects 
• Guide the teams in time estimating practices and facilitate time estimates 
• Drive multiple teams sprint execution, communicate with management and stakeholders
• Manage multiple projects under one portfolio. Topics like: conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance 
• Able to do post mortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity 
• Implement and support Agile principles, rules, and processes 
• Planning the domain roadmap and making sure it is executed accordingly  
• Proactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flow, maintain team data in project management tool to support estimates and execution in the portfolio 
• Supports product owner(s) with intra-team dynamics with respect to priorities and scope 

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, or a related field
• 3-6 years of project management and related experience
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively
• Strong familiarity with data-driven project management software tools (Jira), methodologies, and best practices 
• Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful
• Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline

Please send your CV exclusively in English.