Project Manager

Job Posted 25 Days Ago Posted 25 Days Ago
Los Angeles, CA
60K-100K Annually
Junior
Digital Media • Information Technology
The Role
The Project Manager will lead technical teams using Agile methodologies, manage project schedules and risks, and ensure effective communication among team members and stakeholders. Responsibilities include sprint planning, backlog management, project reporting, and maintaining team efficiency.
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The Role:

We’re looking for a Project Manager, who lives and breathes technology and seeks to be in the center of everything. Someone who thrives in working with and supporting teams reaching for the stars while balancing the ever-present iron triangle of project management. 


You will be at the center of everything directly working with a technical team. You will work with many other experienced, driven, multi-disciplinary professionals to assist in delivering experience-driven projects across a variety of platforms for a diverse client base. Communication is key. You will amplify the voices and needs of your team while ensuring they are getting the communication they need from others. All while managing schedules, risks, and evolving requirements.


If you’re excited about things that have never been done before, and are an experienced technical-focused project manager with the skills to manage the development and support of challenging and groundbreaking experiences while working with others, then we want to work with you.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead teams as a Scrum Master utilizing sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and stand-ups
  • Breakdown road-map into clearly defined stories and maintain ownership, timely delivery and accountability of their execution
  • Define, track & refine key agile metrics to monitor team & work velocity
  • Manage the overall team efficiency and use your experience to improve production methodologies, organizational processes, as well as identify and monitor relevant vulnerabilities, associated risk
  • Prepare and deliver project reports, customized dashboards, consolidated schedules, and presentations for project status meetings
  • Follow change management process to capture change requests, communicate impact, request stakeholder decisions, and execute changes, if applicable
  • Manages day-to-day business interactions and escalates when appropriate while developing trusting relationships with colleagues and stakeholders

Requirements:

  • 2+ years experience as a technical project manager, with proven track record of released software products and/or commercially-released games
  • Knowledge and experience driving projects using Agile methodologies
  • Strong knowledge and experience working in Jira and Confluence
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to direct a team while promoting positive morale in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment 
  • Strong organizational, analytical, project planning skills and ability to find creative solutions to daily challenges
  • Outstanding communication skills and being able to lead by example
  • Able to present complex ideas in a clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical audiences

Would be Nice:

  • Experience working with VR/AR content and understanding what makes them unique
  • Experience with mobile development
  • Certification as a Scrum Master or in PMP

Description:

Magnopus is a content-focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences across the physical and digital worlds in ways people haven’t experienced yet.


Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits.


We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor teamwork more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.


Magnopus's studio postings are made in advance of work anticipated to be awarded. Hires cannot be made until contracts are awarded. In some instances, contracts may not be awarded which could delay or preempt the interview process. We appreciate your patience.


Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:


Mission:ISS

Disney Pixar Coco VR

Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab

The Lion King - Virtual Production

Elixir

The Company
Los Angeles, California
217 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Experience Engineers uniting the physical & digital. Using #spatialcomputing, #AI, & #cloudtech, we imagine, create, & execute impactful immersive solutions.

Located in the US and UK, we are empowered by an Academy Award-winning team of designers, artists, engineers, and "get it done"​ producers who bring a diverse body of experience and creative solutions to the field.

Our unique focus on story and content-driven technology development gives us advance access to some of our partner's over-the-horizon hardware and software developments in light field technology, holographic and translucent displays, HMDs, performance capture, and new human computing interfaces.

We're honored to have a diverse team of talented individuals building products and experiences that have a positive impact on people's everyday lives, whether in entertainment, education, industry, or government

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