Project Manager - (Contract)
Rooster Teeth is looking for a skilled Project Manager to become a part of our Engineering team!
Responsibilities:
- Manage multiple concurrent projects for a team of engineers and content programmers from beginning to end, including coordination of resources, meetings, and feedback
- Prepare for and facilitate meetings for current projects, and backlog of projects
- Ability to collaborate with all teams, compile all deliverables and set the team members assigned the task up for success
- Be able to interpret project requests, understand the overall goal, create project plans and clearly communicate to all parties involved
- Establish the scope and timing of web projects based on strategic business priorities
- Set and communicate realistic deadlines to team members, and ensure all projects are on track, on time and resulting in the agreed upon final product
- Identify trends / common problems and come up with solutions- Identify and resolve communication gaps
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of project management experience
- Internet savvy
- Adept at forecasting project timelines and resources
- Familiarity with project management software, specifically JIRA
- Knowledge of waterfall and agile project management methodologies
- Basic CMS experience and web knowledge
- Basic Web knowledge
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to take full ownership of assigned responsibilities, and appropriately prioritize
- Keen attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent and effective communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to handle multiple priorities, projects, and people at once, many with converging deadlines
- Inventive when solving problems and resourceful in finding answers when information is not readily available
ABOUT Rooster Teeth:Rooster Teeth is a pioneering studio responsible for some of the biggest online series in history, such as the award-winning and longest-running web series, Red vs. Blue. They also produce the globally acclaimed animated series RWBY, the first western anime series to be distributed in Japan; the award-winning Rooster Teeth Podcast; and Immersion, a reality format that brings video game theory to the real world. Rooster Teeth has a massive global footprint of more than 25 million subscribers to its YouTube Network, 3 million unique monthly visitors to its RoosterTeeth.com hub and 1.8 million registered community members. The company was founded in 2003, and is now a subsidiary of Fullscreen, Inc., a global youth media company that develops online creators and produces multi-platform entertainment experiences. Discover more at RoosterTeeth.com.