Overview
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
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- Establish and nurture strong working relationships with tech leads, teams, VPs and execs
- Champion Agile and Scrum best practices and help foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Add value to products by facilitating communications, organization, and accountability across all departments.
- Ability to challenge existing processes, sometimes working with people outside the team if processes are slowing the team down or not adding value. Help make informed decisions in conjunction with team leads on work methods, development pipeline, priorities, and available people.
- Identify and communicate all roadblocks and bottlenecks that may prevent the team from achieving their goals.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings to ensure projects are on track, action items delivered and schedules are accurate.
- Motivate and support the team to ensure that project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
- Collaborate with the rest of the project management team to ensure clear transparency across all projects
Essential Requirements:
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- Agile and Scrum experience
- Recent experience working as an Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master across multiple agile product development teams
- Experience working across departments, such as Social/Community, Marketing, Game Development teams and CRM
- Knowledge of the game development process
- Experience tracking a complex project and providing insight and influence into how to deliver more effectively
- Confluence and JIRA experience
- Calm and deliberate within a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment
- Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative – the ability to make sense of the ambiguous
- Strong communicator
- Organized and highly motivated
- Can bring ‘order’ to chaos
- Ability to work across multiple business units and stakeholders
- *Preferred* Passion for videogames preferably in MMO or RPG genre
About Jagex
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future. Jagex employs more than 360 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.