Overview
Topgolf Media is looking for an experienced, hands-on Development Director to join our team working on a new mobile game in the golf space. The DD plays a vital role in successfully moving the team from one project phase to the next while ensuring a strong focus on quality, collaboration, and communication. As keeper of the schedule, they will partner with leads to drive alignment and deliver sprints, milestones, and releases on time and to quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with engineering, design and art leads to set quality targets for the product, and drive processes to ensure those targets are being met.
- Establish a viable project plan and schedule, determine task dependencies, balance scope, assign tasks and align stakeholders to deliver on defined project outcomes.
- Maintain and optimize the team's established processes and development workflows.
- Proactively identify, track and mitigate project development risks.
- Work with project managers to manage the project schedule, milestones and sprint deliverables.
Key Qualifications
- 8+ years of project management or team leadership experience
- Bachelor degree or equivalent experience
- Experience developing and shipping games, mobile games is a plus
- Experience in implementing and managing various project management methodologies including Agile / Scrum
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Pluses
- Live service experience
- Sports fan
About Topgolf Media
Based in San Francisco, Topgolf Media creates and distributes advanced media content, enabling the Topgolf community to experience the best times of their lives. The division enhances in-venue golf games as well as creating experiences outside of the venues with apps, websites and virtual experiences. In addition, Topgolf Media cultivates relationships with global partners, sponsors and ambassadors to promote innovation within the Topgolf brand.
Topgolf Media provides an intimate, fast-paced, collaborative environment that combines its love of sports, entertainment and lifestyle to produce quality content. We have a top-notch team that strives for the best and we are looking for others who prioritize quality and innovation. Our goal is to create compelling experiences to engage Topgolf fans of all walks in new, innovative ways.
Our Games
WGT Golf: is the #1 free golf game with over 450 million virtual rounds played and 5+ million mobile downloads. WGT Golf features 24 famous virtual golf courses including Bandon Dunes, Pebble Beach® and St Andrews. WGT Golf runs the annual Virtual U.S. Open in partnership with the USGA, and has partnered with NBC's Golf Channel and David Leadbetter. WGT Golf offers a range of virtual golf equipment from leading manufacturers, including Callaway, Cleveland, Nike, Ping, Srixon and TaylorMade.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Topgolf is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, genetics or any other category protected under applicable law.
Topgolf Media does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website, employees or Human Resources. Topgolf Media will not pay fees for unsolicited agency resumes and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes received will be considered property of Topgolf Media and will be processed accordingly without fee.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Topgolf is a global sports and entertainment community and is committed to equal opportunity and is firmly committed to preventing discrimination and harassment, including sexual misconduct, based on legally protected diversity characteristics (such as race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family status, citizenship, genetic information and veteran status) in its application and hiring processes and in its employment decisions. As an affirmative action employer, Topgolf also takes steps to prevent retaliation and to create a respectful, equitable and inclusive environment for our Guests, Associates, business partners, vendors, and the communities we serve.
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