2K
Senior Technical Program Manager
Austin, Texas, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago
Backend DevelopmentCloud PlatformsAgileJiraConfluenceForecastingLeadershipCommunicationOrganizational Skills
About the role
- 2K publishes titles in today's most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.
- At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work!
- We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.
Responsibilities
- Lead Technology engagement with selected 2K studios to Facilitate adoption of Technology shared services and platforms
- Establish, maintain, and drive delivery against multiple program and project schedules
- Partner with team to establish a development timeline
- Partner with IT leads to identify, document, and communicate project / program scope, schedule, risks, and issues
- Establish and drive successful studio deployments by reviewing test plans and scheduling demos as necessary
- Proactively identify, track and drive resolution of blocking issues and non-engineering action items
- Establish, maintain and drive consumption of a high-level project status dashboards and reporting for each Studio assigned
- Establish and lead regular partner syncs
- Proven ability to influence department leaders and drive consensus up, down, and across organizational lines
Requirements
- You are passionate about technology and you are excited about bringing cutting-edge capabilities to empower studios to make incredible game experiences for consumers.
- You are interested in exploring opportunities to apply technology to address opportunities in the area of video game backend services, digital sales, marketing, and distribution.
Nice to have
- 5+ years in technical program management, technical production, or engineering leadership, ideally including game development and live-service operations
- Hands-on infrastructure experience across on-premise and cloud environments
- Video game development knowledge
- shipped one or two AAA titles a plus
- Demonstrated end-to-end program ownership, inception through launch to run-state
- Agile experience a plus
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Google Suite
Skills
- 2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).
Company info
- Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K's portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today's most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.
- Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier's Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.
- At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.
- Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world.
- Our studios responsible for developing 2K's portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios.
- Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us!
- We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment.
- What We Need:
- 2K Publishing Tech delivers innovative solutions to our studios and supports all of their technology needs to ensure they can focus on building incredible games.
- The Senior Technical Program Manager will need to apply their experience and skillset across a variety of roles including project and program management, change management, process documentation and improvement, business requirements definition, tracking schedules, action items, forging strong relationships across the business and most importantly, is experienced with influencing and driving consensus with stakeholders and other team members.
- They need the interpersonal and organizational skills to navigate our complex and fast-paced environment and have an absolute passion for getting things done.
Equal opportunity
- Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.
This listing is sourced directly from 2K's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.