About Wildlife
Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. Since 2011, our gaming titles have been downloaded more than 2 billion times providing fun to millions of people, every day, everywhere.
We are not done yet. We aspire to develop games that will be remembered by generations. To achieve this goal, we pursuit to be best-in-class in each of our major disciplines: Product, Engineering, Art, Marketing, and Data. That’s why we are rapidly expanding and building talented and passionate teams in our offices in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, and US.
About the Team
The Development Management department thrives on taming chaos. Guardians of schedules and guides for games moving through each development phase, these are highly dependable people leading our teams with a focus on communication, collaboration, continuous improvement, and quality.
If you are passionate about turning ideas into reality while being the cornerstone for smooth execution and adapting to change, you will love helping build this new department at Wildlife.
About the Role
Development managers at Wildlife use their honed soft skills, deep project management toolbox, and wise team leadership to oversee projects, plan features, meet milestones, achieve quality, allocate resources, balance scope and capacity, manage risks, track progress, implement processes, and inspire motivation and commitment. They are in charge of establishing and nurturing relationships with key partners horizontally and vertically to gain support for initiatives and projects.
Who you are
- You excel at organizing and prioritizing, and have a keen eye for detail.
- You can inspire, influence, create relationships, and communicate with all levels of the organization.
- You remain calm and intentional in a highly dynamic environment, adapting to change quickly.
- You can easily switch context from granular to big picture and manage competing priorities.
- You are able to build and track complex schedules.
What you'll do
- Own the project schedule and drive it to successful completion with decisions balancing quality, scope, capacity, budget, risk, and time.
- Lead cross-functional development teams, facilitate ceremonies, evaluate and evolve processes.
- Anticipate risks, coordinate dependencies, remove team roadblocks and performance bottlenecks.
- Provide visibility into the status of the project and the development team across the company, ensuring smooth communication inside and outside the area so people are aware of the job being done and the challenges being faced.
- Inspire and empower the development team that you will be working with, guide them through continuous improvement, and share learnings with the company.
- Create a healthy team culture, communicative, transparent, motivated, committed, and focused on realistic goals.
What you'll need
- 3+ years of experience in project management or team leadership.
- Knowledge of modern project management methodologies, processes, and the experience of knowing when not to use them.
- Understanding of software development life cycles.
- Familiarity with project management tools like Jira, Confluence, Excel (complex spreadsheets), or similar.
- Plus: experience working with games is highly desirable.
- Plus: managed multiple teams, has education or certification in project management.
We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build the best gaming company, where everyone thrives.
