Key Responsibilities

• Engage in Strategic Planning: Keep sight of long-term goals while working with teams to break them into actionable objectives.
• Facilitate Dependency Mapping: Chart and share deliverables and dependencies within the roadmap to ensure successful releases, paying attention to downstream impacts.
• Support Risk and Opportunity Planning: Assist project leads and directors by sharing priorities and dependencies, contributing to scenario and risk mitigation planning, and engaging in creative problem-solving.
• Ensure Predictable Visibility: Provide consistent, accurate, and accessible communication on project and team status to leads, the production team, and the studio.
• Foster Effective Cross-team Communication: Cultivate productive communication flows with internal and external teams to continuously improve collaboration.
• Collaborate on Resource Planning and Tracking: Work with Leads to determine time and resources needed to complete projects and tasks, mapping these to releases, with:
  • Clear identification of factors that add complexity and therefore time or additional resources
  • Prioritization aligned with larger Project goals
  • Understanding of team capacity and velocity for realistic projections of effort over time
  • Time allocated for discovery and experimentation to prevent future issues
• Contribute to Scoping and Decision Making: Partner with leads and directors to establish a shared understanding of project scope, ensuring priorities are clear and decisions are made and communicated in a timely manner.
• Help Optimize Team Process, Structures, and Tools: Collaborate with Leads to create, maintain, and improve structures, processes, practices, and tools that allow teams (internal and external) to produce high-quality work efficiently and on time.