Whimsy Games is a game development company specializing in outsourcing, known for creating innovative and entertaining games for various platforms. With a focus on creativity, Whimsy Games constantly explores new ideas and pushes game development’s boundaries. Over the next few years, we aim to create bestsellers and establish ourselves as a reputable partner for global Game Development companies.
Whimsy Games is seeking a top-notch Project Manager to extend our team and to help create exciting projects across Mobile Games, WebGL, PC, and NES platforms. If you have a passion for gamedev, we’d love to hear from you!
Key Duties: * Oversee the full development cycle and coordinate with other project teams to ensure timely delivery and alignment. * Optimize team processes by identifying bottlenecks, managing dependencies, maintaining workload balance, and ensuring efficient use of the budget. * Monitor team activities, resolve disputes, manage conflicts, and support team motivation, autonomy, and goal alignment. * Set up and maintain project management tools, project documentation, PM libraries, and a well-prepared backlog. * Track progress on tasks and agreements, forecast estimates based on team velocity and risks, and facilitate effective team meetings. * Identify, analyze, and assess risks with the team; communicate risk-related information to stakeholders; and contribute to developing risk response strategies.
Requirements:
• 3+ years of experience in GameDev project management, including work in iGaming and with various contract types.
• Proven ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects in dynamic environments using methodologies such as Lean, Waterfall, Kanban, and Agile (including SCRUM).
• Strong expertise in requirements documentation (SRS, TR, TDD) and solid understanding of SDLC, mobile app development, and deployment processes.
• Excellent organizational, leadership, communication, and facilitation skills, with strong attention to detail and multitasking ability.
• Practical experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) and additional collaboration tools such as Miro and Google Docs.
• Upper-intermediate English proficiency, experience working with international clients, and the ability to stay flexible and resilient under pressure.
• Bonus: Understanding of Sweepstakes and previous collaboration with foreign customers in the GameDev industry.
What we have to offer: * Ability to work from anywhere in the world in comfortable conditions while remaining a member of the team * Timely and competitive compensation * Flexible work schedule, paid vacations and sick leaves * A day off on your birthday * Internal and external professional development events * Regular company-wide sync-ups to share your thoughts and ideas * The coolest team of passionate Game Development experts
