Senior Project Manager (Gaming)
Full Time • Hybrid - US
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity for advancement
- Training & development
Senior Project Manager (Gaming)
Location: New York City, NY (Hybrid)
Why Join Us
- High-visibility initiatives in the interactive entertainment space
- Lead end-to-end game development programs with real impact from concept to launch
- Competitive contract compensation aligned to the market
- Hybrid flexibility in NYC (onsite collaboration + remote focus time)
- Exposure to modern production tools, workflows, and pipelines
- Fast-paced, innovation-driven culture with executive visibility
About the Role
We’re seeking a Senior Project Manager (Gaming) with 12+ years of delivery experience and strong exposure to gaming/interactive entertainment. You’ll lead cross-functional teams across engineering, design, art, QA, and production, owning delivery from early planning through release while balancing creative iteration with structured execution.
What You’ll Do
- Drive end-to-end delivery from planning and execution through launch and post-release support
- Build and manage integrated plans: milestones, sprints, resourcing, capacity, and critical path
- Own scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, and change control with transparency
- Facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies to ensure sprint goals and deliverables are achieved
- Remove blockers, align dependencies, and coordinate across multi-disciplinary teams
- Deliver executive-ready reporting: dashboards, status updates, risk/issue tracking, action plans
- Improve processes to increase predictability, efficiency, and quality
- Manage multiple high-priority initiatives in a hybrid environment
Requirements
- Gaming/interactive entertainment experience; strong knowledge of the game development lifecycle
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, prioritization, and risk/problem resolution skills
- 12+ years in Project/Program/Delivery Management
- Hands-on Agile/Scrum experience; tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project (or similar)
Nice to Have
- AAA/console/mobile production experience
- Unity/Unreal workflow familiarity
- PMP/CSM (or equivalent)
- Experience with distributed teams across time zones
Apply
If you can bring clarity, structure, and momentum to complex game development initiatives, we’d like to hear from you.
Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us on our journey!
Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us on our journey!
Flexible work from home options available.
Compensation: $55.00 - $65.00 per hour
AES is a premier technology consulting company that brings together businesses and talent to deliver the most innovative technology solutions that create the most positive impact to society.
In the last 20 years, we have developed innovative best-in-class technology solutions to the world’s forward-thinking companies on four key service areas:
- Customer Experience: engaging customers with differentiating digital experiences to sustain
business relevance
- Employee Experience: enabling employees to learn, collaborate, and grow to sustain business
performance
- Business Solutions: transforming and optimizing business operations to sustain business resilience
- Emerging Technology: exploring and adopting emerging technology to transform business model
Our team ensures that your favorite coffee shop has the right amount of people serving you at any given time. Our team ensures that the governance board of a global company has the right ESG insights to make the most sensible actions for the world. The list goes on and on. At the core of
what we do is creating the future that is right for everyone, with the right technology, and with the right talent.
In the last 20 years, we have developed innovative best-in-class technology solutions to the world’s forward-thinking companies on four key service areas:
- Customer Experience: engaging customers with differentiating digital experiences to sustain
business relevance
- Employee Experience: enabling employees to learn, collaborate, and grow to sustain business
performance
- Business Solutions: transforming and optimizing business operations to sustain business resilience
- Emerging Technology: exploring and adopting emerging technology to transform business model
Our team ensures that your favorite coffee shop has the right amount of people serving you at any given time. Our team ensures that the governance board of a global company has the right ESG insights to make the most sensible actions for the world. The list goes on and on. At the core of
what we do is creating the future that is right for everyone, with the right technology, and with the right talent.
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