Senior Development Manager

About Remedy Entertainment

Storytellers at heart, Remedy creates cinematic blockbuster action games that break media boundaries and push the envelope of 3D character technology and visual effects. We believe the Remedy name is a seal of quality, packed with iconic characters, narrative and stylized gameplay. Remedy’s games include Death Rally, Max Payne, Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Alan Wake, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, and Quantum Break.

Position

As a Senior Development Manager, you'll take part in all phases of our high-quality, ambitious game projects and thus get to participate in building Remedy's future success. If you are a great team player with excellent project management and communication skills and passionate about supporting our game teams, you might be the person we are looking for!

For this senior role, we can consider remote working outside of Finland case by case.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers running them through their project life cycle stages
• Be accountable and drive the delivery of your strike teams and assigned key processes
• Plan and consistently deliver against project schedules, identify production risks or constraints, and troubleshoot dependency problems
• Plan and prioritize tasks that are clearly communicated to the teams you are responsible for
• Facilitate communication between the project teams, leads and other producers
• Actively optimize and improve work methods and best practices to drive team efficiency
• Stay aware of industry standards, both in terms of methodology and quality, and help team members stay on par or ahead of them when necessary

Your qualification

• Solid experience as a Development Manager/Producer with at least 1 PC/console game project shipped in a production related position
• Excellent project management skills
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Positive attitude with a team-oriented mindset
• High motivation and capacity to learn new skills, use new tools and meet new people
• Knowledge of production management software tools
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (in English)

What we offer

• Above all, you get to work on awesome, unique video games that the global audience is interested in at a studio where your input is valued. We try our hardest to keep our team sizes and the work load sensible, so your contributions feel valuable
• This position is based in Helsinki metropolitan area in Finland, where the quality of life is exceptional and cost of living is affordable. If you're not already in Finland, our relocation service is there every step of the way to take care of you. You can concentrate on work, while we’ll take care of everything else
• If you are based in Sweden, we also welcome candidates to our new secondary location in Stockholm
• You will be offered competitive compensation with a bonus system
• We work hard, but at Remedy we believe in a great work life balance. Happy people work better. In Finland you get up to 5 weeks of paid vacation every year. This is on top of public holidays and other special occasions