That's No Moon
That's No Moon is a new independent AAA development studio founded by award-winning game makers and storytellers.
Senior Manager, Production – Scheduling, Reporting
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
$200K - $250K / year
8 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Drive structured, data-informed decision-making with directors and discipline leads to protect scope, quality, and milestone commitments.
• Own and maintain the integrated cross-department macro schedule including milestone architecture, feature sequencing, dependency mapping, and critical path dependencies through Gold.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for schedule integrity. Ensure all departmental plans and forecasts are capacity-validated, reconciled, and aligned to the macro production plan.
• Architect and maintain the scheduling framework used by the project, including planning standards, dependency modeling approaches, and forecasting methodologies that ensure consistent schedule reliability across pillars.
• Enforce schedule discipline across pillars by identifying variance, forecast drift, and dependency risk while driving corrective action to maintain milestone confidence.
• Maintain formal risk tracking, identify and flag delivery risks early, escalate when appropriate, and confirm mitigation plans are defined.
• Own production velocity metrics and forecasting models, translating production system data into forward-looking schedule projections and milestone confidence assessments.
• Produce standardized executive reporting that clearly communicates schedule health, forecast accuracy, and dependency risk.
• Provide forward-looking delivery forecasts and scenario modeling to support executive planning, scope decisions, and milestone readiness assessments.
Job Requirements
- Proven experience delivering AAA video games, preferably action-adventure or narrative-driven titles with complex cross-discipline dependencies and milestone-driven production cycles.
- Demonstrated expertise in constructing and maintaining integrated production schedules, including dependency mapping, capacity planning, milestone modeling, and critical path analysis.
- Advanced proficiency with Jira (or equivalent production systems), including workflow configuration, dashboard/report creation, and data extraction for forecasting and variance analysis.
- Strong analytical capability and ability to translate production data into velocity trends, burn-down forecasts, schedule variance insights, and milestone confidence projections.
- Experience producing executive-level reporting that enables clear scope, risk, and investment decisions.
- Solid knowledge of structured project management methodologies (Agile, hybrid, milestone-gated development) applied within complex creative production environments.
- Experience building or refining production planning frameworks, reporting standards, or schedule governance practices within large-scale game development teams.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401(k) match
- unlimited PTO
- supplemental life and disability
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