About the role
Company Overview
Magnopus is a connected spaces technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. The company creates experiences at the intersection of storytelling, creativity, and technology, including immersive attractions, interactive installations, virtual production, spatial computing, and AI-powered experiences. Magnopus invests in products and platforms such as OKO and Nodey to help organizations deliver immersive digital experiences at scale.
The company fosters a diverse, creative, and safe environment that values curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage. Employees are encouraged to take risks and learn from failures, with an emphasis on teamwork over individual talent. Leadership works to serve the employees, who in turn guide the direction of the company and the work created.
Role Overview
The DevOps Technical Project Manager serves as the program lead for the Pipeline team. This role sits at the intersection of production and technology, requiring the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders. The position involves planning, prioritizing, and tracking work for the tools, automation, and workflows used on linear film and interactive projects. The lead must clear obstacles for artists, engineers, and producers while maintaining a roadmap aligned with studio needs.
Responsibilities
- Manage the Pipeline team using agile practices, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Partner with Production, Engineering, and creative leads to gather pipeline needs, translate them into a prioritized backlog, and balance demands between linear film and interactive projects.
- Track dependencies between pipeline tools, workflows, and project milestones; communicate impacts of changes, releases, and delays.
- Manage the planning toolchain (Jira projects, boards, workflows, and dashboards), maintain documentation/decision logs in Confluence, and provide updates via Slack.
- Monitor tool and source control (GitHub and Perforce) to track release and integration status.
- Develop and manage schedules, roadmaps, and resource plans; deliver within established time, budget, and resource constraints.
- Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and blockers; execute contingency plans when necessary.
- Plan and track budgets for tools, licenses, and vendor services, focusing on resource efficiency and cost reduction.
- Report program status to multi-tiered audiences including the team, peers, department heads, and executive staff.
- Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders to explain constraints and tradeoffs.
- Drive continuous improvement of team processes using data (e.g., sprint velocity, turnaround times).
Requirements
- 3-5 years of project or program management experience.
- Minimum of two years managing agile software, DevOps, or pipeline teams.
- Technical background in software/tools development, pipeline, build engineering, or DevOps.
- Understanding of production pipelines for linear film (e.g., VFX, animation, asset management, review/approval, delivery).
- Working proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Slack, GitHub, and Perforce.
- Experience running agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid).
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects at different life cycle stages.
- Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams in a matrix management environment.
- Skills in negotiating scope, schedule, and resource tradeoffs.
- Ability to resolve conflicts productively and build team collaboration.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with interactive or real-time pipelines.
- Familiarity with CI/CD and build automation concepts.
- Agile or project management certification (e.g., PMP or CSM).
Benefits
- Ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through guilds.
- Support for happiness and productivity through health care, time off, and additional benefits.
- A safe work environment that encourages risk-taking and learning.