Senior Project Manager

Company Description
**CREATOR OF WORLDS**

Ubisoft’s 20,000 team members, working across more than 40 locations around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their dedication and talent has brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

Since opening its doors in 2008, Ubisoft Singapore has become the biggest AAA game development studio in Southeast Asia. The 500-strong studio is home to 35+ different nationalities focused on delivering ambitious gaming experiences to our players. Ubisoft Singapore has been contributing to all the Assassin’s Creed® titles since Assassin’s Creed® II. It innovated within the franchise as the studio behind the naval battle gameplay and water technology in Assassin’s Creed® III, Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag® and most recently in Assassin’s Creed® Valhalla. Its expertise in AAA and live operations, combined with a passion for naval gameplay, pushed the team to lead the development of Skull and Bones revealed at E3 in 2017.

Job Description
**YOUR DAILY ADVENTURE**

The Video Game industry is evolving rapidly: market, technology, competition. It is key for our studio to remain at the edge and thus requires Operational Excellence, with constant evolution, even transformation. To become effective quickly, Operational Excellence must be sustained by projects, gathering for a period of time all stakeholders related to the topic.

Reporting to our Studio Operations Director, you drive our Operational Excellence transformation program and manage a portfolio of related projects within the studio.

You bring our studio to the next level to execute our ambitious business plan successfully and efficiently

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**

Design our Operational Excellence transformation program:

- Learn about studio strategic plans and key objectives.
- Assess actual studio efficiency, and key areas of improvement.
- Propose a methodology to build our transformation roadmap and design the roadmap accordingly.
- Define and put in place process and tools to support transformation plan.
- Create and keep up to date our project portfolio.
- Communicate about transformation roadmap on a regular basis.

Manage strategic projects directly:

- Define project objectives: understand the needs, define expectations and success criteria.
- Define project team, roles and responsibilities (RACI), and make sure these are well understood and followed. This includes gathering persons from different departments and creating transversal/virtual teams for the project duration.
- Define project planning: milestones, committees agenda, end
- Define project organization, relying on the most appropriate project management methodology.
- Assess risks on a regular basis, find mitigation plans if needed.
- Execute accordingly the plan and deliver successfully.

Support other projects and transversal initiatives:

- Define an easy usable framework for Operational Excellence project management.
- Identify project owner and project manager, train, and coach them in their role.
- Kick off project with them, within the predefined project framework.
- Update project portfolio, or make sure it is always up to date.
- Alert in case of deviation with the original plan, and help find mitigation plans

Qualifications
**WHAT YOU BRING**

Skills, knowledge and experience in:

- transformation programs
- project management
- program management
- project portfolio management
- change management

Positive leadership and initiative.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Additional Information
**WHAT YOU’LL ENJOY**

**JOIN THE SQUAD**

Making games is serious business, but it's very important for us to have **fun** while creating awesome worlds so that we can convey the same sense of joy to millions of players in the world.

Come on board and experience #LifeAtUbi for yourself, we are always on the lookout for talents who thrive in bringing their A-game to work. If this sounds like you, shoot us your resume, portfolio, and anything else to show that you’re serious about fun

**We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.