Technical Program Manager

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2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, 31st Union, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, 2K PGA, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Quarry, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions, even if they don’t meet every requirement for the role. If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K, we encourage you to apply!

2K Publishing Tech delivers innovative solutions to our studios and supports all of their technology needs to ensure they can focus on building incredible games. The Delivery Manager/Technical Program Manager will need to apply their experience and skills across a variety of roles including agile project and program management, change management, process documentation and improvement, business requirements definition, tracking schedules, action items, risks and most importantly, forging strong relationships across the business. They need the interpersonal and organizational skills to navigate our complex and fast-paced environment. Perhaps most importantly, they need to have an absolute passion for getting things done.

●    Own the delivery of product in accordance with the Product roadmap and quarterly commitments.
●    Lead, facilitate, and ensure the Agile process is rigorously followed by the team.
●    Coach the team on Scrum principles and practices, and help them to have a clear vision and self-management.
●    Manage team resources to ensure effective participation in agile events as well commitment and progress towards assigned work.
●    Partner with Product and Engineering leads to track & relay to team any priorities as well as key customer milestones.
●    Partner with Product and Engineering leads to identify, document, and communicate Quarterly delivery scope and schedule based on team capacity.
●    Mitigate risks and issues.
●    Proactively identify, track and drive resolution of blocking issues/impediments and non-engineering action items.
●    Coordinate cross-project dependency, milestone, & release management activities with other Delivery Managers.
●    Facilitate triage of incoming customer tickets through ServiceNow.
●    Manage Sprint Backlog in Jira.
●    Drive change requests for any committed work during a Quarter.
●    Establish and drive successful release communications.
●    Drive Program level performance reporting, visibility and transparency to both internal and external leadership.
●    Recommend and/or implement moderate process improvements for increased productivity.
●    Maintain team morale.

You are passionate about technology and you are excited about bringing ground breaking capabilities to empower cross-vendor team members to make incredible platform experiences for our game studio developers. You understand what it means to bring organization in a fast-paced environment that is minimally disruptive. You can operate with considerable autonomy and discretion. You consider excellence in communication to be one of, if not your strongest asset across all mediums.
●    5-8 years of experience
●    Domain expertise is a plus: IT (Software development and/or infrastructure), Identity, Video Game Production and/or Supply Chain & Vendor Management, IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
●    Agile experience as Scrum Master and/or Product Owner, 
●    Experience with Jira, Confluence, Google Suite, Flowcharting (Miro, Visio, Lucidchart)
●    Demonstrated strategic planning, strategic facilitation, and executive presentation
●    BA/BS, CSM/CSPO
●    Demonstrated ability to interact, influence and align with all levels of an organization; and drive consensus

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