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Company Description

Ubisoft’s 19,000 team members, working across more than 40 locations around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their dedication and talent has bought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknow.

Job Description

Based in Paris and working with studios and teams all over the world, the Web Services team is an online solutions provider that brings new concepts, services, and tools to life for all Ubisoft productions. Our diverse and technical expertise enables us to conceptualize, build, support, and operate products and services for Ubisoft’s worldwide Production and Business teams. We provide expertise in Product Management, UI/UX Design, Development, Infrastructure, Integration and Support to help overcome challenges and deliver with passion and commitment to help teams accomplish their goals online.

The Web Services team is currently looking for a:

Project Manager - Web Services (M/W/NB)

Objectives:

The Project Manager is specifically focusing on the development and evolution of tools and products that enable the management, operation, and publishing of web sites, game services, and fan products. In partnership with the product manager, live operations, and development teams, the project manager’s role is to manage the development, scoping, growth, roadmap, tracking and communication of these solutions.

Missions:

  • Effectively and proactively coordinating the project needs across a wide variety of stakeholders in line with team and business objectives to ensure the formulation of value-adding solutions and evolution.
  • Develop project plans and manage the project lifecycle and requirements, using proven project planning, monitoring, and communication methodologies, to deliver within established timelines, and to required scope and quality standards.
  • Ensure effective communication and regular synchronization with key stakeholders, as well as the reporting of progress and live metrics of the project scope and project schedule progress, to ensure constant alignment of stakeholder’s expectations.
  • Conducting feasibility analysis and creating business cases for projects and their evolutions.
  • Work with development teams to define solutions, and be comfortable with creating functional specifications, business cases, feasibility analyses, and understanding technical frameworks.
  • Planning and scheduling the live deployment and launch of new products, tools and services into and with respect to the company technical ecosystem.
  • Presenting and promoting the project and services to stakeholders and senior management.
  • Managing the internal development and testing resources (in relation to the project only) for project execution.
  • Controlling changes to the project scope and project schedule and ensuring alignment of stakeholder expectations through responsive and clear communication channels.
  • Being responsible for the knowledge transfer of projects and functionality to the Web Services Live team as needed.
  • Selecting and managing all project feedback (bugs, issues, feature requests) into the project backlog using established tools and methods.

Qualifications

  • Having graduated from engineering school or equivalent, you have professionnal experiences in the management of web applications and services development on a global scale. You have independently managed projects, and have experience with SaaS solutions, and successfully delivered and lead project lifecycles using strong and recognized project management methodologies, enabling you to challenge and shape solutions to ensure the correct fit to business needs.
  • A strong interest in video games and an advanced knowledge of web technologies is essential.
  • Your previous experience should display an ability to effectively communicate and coordinate, in English, multiple complex projects involving teams of differing cultures, and for which your strong inter-personal skills, critical thinking, and initiative made the difference.