Project Manager Gaming, Production
Job Description
The Project Manager, Production ensures successful production execution across a portfolio of accounts. The Project Manager, Production is a fundamental component of the production life cycle, ensuring projects are delivered on-time, on budget and to accepted quality standards. The Project Manager, Production will have customer facing production duties as well as internal responsibility to manage all components of a project lifecycle. RESPONSIBILITIES - Orchestrate complex workflows including translation, QA, DTP, multimedia, and linguistic sign-off for LILT’s largest enterprise customers.
- Engage directly with customers to clarify project requirements, ensure all assets are received, and provide accurate status updates and confirm delivery in line with pre-defined SLAs - Coordinate seamlessly with internal engineering and linguistic teams to resolve bottlenecks fast.
- Own internal and external communication within pre-defined SLAs - Identify risks, potential issues, plan to and mitigate them, and escalate to the Program Leader as appropriate - Define and delegate admin work to PCs - Control budgets effectively - Effectively balance and manage priorities across a variety of task types and customers - Establishes deadlines /ensures deadlines are feasible and completes tasks by said deadlines - Mitigates risk and escalates issues or problems in an effective manner, along with proposed solutions - Asks pertinent questions to ensure full comprehension of the task in hand - Strictly follows Production SOPs and best practices.
- Ensure projects are managed and delivered in line with Production KPIs (Margin, Quality, On Time Delivery) - Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple high-priority deadlines.
- Implement new features, efficiencies and initiatives in line with Department and Company goals.
Duties
- Manage the end to end project management workflow (including Translation, QA, DTP, Linguistic Sign Off, E-Learning, Multimedia) - Ensure all projects are delivered on time as per customer SLA - Manage quality at the project level, ensuring linguists adhere to Customer linguistic assets and QA rules - Responds quickly and efficiently to internal and external stakeholders - Ensure all system admin, including data entry, is accurate - Process invoicing and payments - Perform file analysis - Monitor linguistic assets (TM, Style Guides, reference material) - Demonstrates a deep understanding of all production workflows and processes related to Enterprise accounts - Utilize systems and tools released by Production - Train supporting resources on key production processes and methodology - Develop and maintain process documentation related to their Customer - Consistently follow correct protocols for tasks and accounts.
- Escalate quality complaints and feedback received from Customer stakeholders - Raise Customer Support tickets as required - Perform Linguist Sourcing in our existing vendor database and enters sourcing requests when new vendors are needed - Completes ongoing risk assessment and mitigation for all production areas.
- Manage linguist communication for all projects REQUIRED EXPERIENCE - 2-5+ years of professional experience in managing large-scale complex production for large scale Enterprise customers - Proven customer-facing experience - Excellent internal communication skills, including fast responsiveness and quick resolution - Solid organizational skills including meticulous attention to detail and multitasking skills - Able to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
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