2k Games

Senior Technical Program Manager

2k Games$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in technical program management or engineering leadership, preferably in game development
  • Hands-on experience with both on-premise and cloud infrastructure
  • Knowledge of video game development with experience in AAA title shipment
  • Demonstrated ability in end-to-end program ownership from inception to launch
  • Strong interpersonal skills to influence and drive consensus across departments
  • Agile methodology familiarity is a plus
  • Proficiency in project management tools like Jira, Confluence, and Google Suite

Responsibilities

  • Lead tech engagement with 2K studios for shared services adoption
  • Advocate for new features and capabilities on behalf of studios
  • Communicate updates on feature integrations
  • Liaise among various departments to ensure holistic requirements are met
  • Drive delivery against multiple program and project schedules
  • Track all projects and programs
  • Establish and maintain development timelines with partners
  • Assist with task forecasting and scoping
  • Delegate tasks to Scrum Masters and Technical Program Managers as necessary
  • Collaborate with IT leads to document project scope and risks
  • Oversee deployment success through test plans and demos
  • Identify and resolve blocking issues proactively
  • Maintain project status dashboards and reporting for studios
  • Conduct regular partner synchronization meetings
  • Transition projects into the run state for handoff

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with innovative technology solutions in gaming
  • Collaborative environment with access to various 2K studios
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and resources
  • A vibrant and creative workplace culture
  • Potential for career growth within a leading game development company
Full Job Description
What We Need:

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 Senior Technical Program Manager will need to apply their experience and skillset across a variety of roles including project and program management, change management, process documentation and improvement, business requirements definition, tracking schedules, action items, forging strong relationships across the business and most importantly, is experienced with influencing and driving consensus with stakeholders and other team members. They need the interpersonal and organizational skills to navigate our complex and fast-paced environment and have an absolute passion for getting things done.
What You Will Do:
  • Lead Technology engagement with selected 2K studios to Facilitate adoption of Technology shared services and platforms
  • Advocate on behalf of studios for new features and capabilities
  • Communicate updates related to requested features integration
  • Liaise between multiple 2K departments including Studios, Analytics, Global Services, Commercial, and Marketing to ensure requirements are met holistically
  • Establish, maintain, and drive delivery against multiple program and project schedules
  • Tracking all project/program in your purview
  • Partner with team to establish a development timeline
  • Assist with forecasting and scoping tasks
  • Delegate work to Scrum Masters, other Technical Program Managers, and Technical Project Coordinators as needed
  • Partner with IT leads to identify, document, and communicate project / program scope, schedule, risks, and issues
  • Establish and drive successful studio deployments by reviewing test plans and scheduling demos as necessary
  • Proactively identify, track and drive resolution of blocking issues and non-engineering action items
  • Establish, maintain and drive consumption of a high-level project status dashboards and reporting for each Studio assigned
  • Establish and lead regular partner syncs
  • Transition projects into run state and handoff to appropriate team
Who We Believe Will Be A Phenomenal Fit:

You are passionate about technology and you are excited about bringing cutting-edge capabilities to empower studios to make incredible game experiences for consumers. You understand what it means to bring organization in a fast-paced environment that is minimally disruptive. You are interested in exploring opportunities to apply technology to address opportunities in the area of video game backend services, digital sales, marketing, and distribution. You consider excellence in communication to be one of, if not your strongest asset across all mediums.
  • 5+ years in technical program management, technical production, or engineering leadership, ideally including game development and live-service operations
  • Hands-on infrastructure experience across on-premise and cloud environments
  • Video game development knowledge; shipped one or two AAA titles a plus
  • Demonstrated end-to-end program ownership, inception through launch to run-state
  • Proven ability to influence department leaders and drive consensus up, down, and across organizational lines
  • Agile experience a plus
  • Experience with Jira, Confluence, Google Suite

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About 2k Games

2K Games is an American video game publisher based in Novato, California. The company was founded in January 2005 by Take-Two Interactive, and is best known for publishing the NBA 2K series of basketball games. Other popular franchises published by 2K Games include the Borderlands series, the BioShock series, and the Mafia series. The company has also published several licensed games based on popular movies and TV shows, such as The Walking Dead and WWE.
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