About the Job:

As a Project Manager on the Speech Technology team, you’ll facilitate the day to day progress of multi-disciplinary audio focused projects from start to finish. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It’s your job to coordinate with team members and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines in a production focused atmosphere. Your work to build collaboration and remove roadblocks is vital to the team’s success.

You will be daily working with the Speech Technology team to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, solve challenges, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners internally and externally.

Responsibilities

• Driving communication and tracking of complex cross-functional speech projects.
• Interfacing with Partnership Managers and Technical Program Managers, internal and client facing, across the full Speech Technology pipeline.
• Orchestrating studio production efforts, organizing the team to hit roadmap goals, tracking budgetary progress, analyzing risks, documenting decisions, and communicating status.
• Identifying communication gaps, managing issue escalations, and providing support to teams balancing competing priorities.
• Managing multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity and scope, anticipating risks and dependencies.
• Owning the communication of upstream and downstream dependencies on the end to end systematic planning process, with an acute focus on scale, budget, and efficiency.
• Establishing and continuously improving processes, tools, and documentation to ensure efficient cross-functional collaboration.
• Facilitating voice talent casting and production pipelines, bringing key decision makers to the table and providing day to day deliverables

Requirements:

• 2+ years experience working with Machine Learning teams, Audio Professionals, and/or a similar role within the Speech Technology field are required.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to solve ambiguous problems and work independently.
• Experience driving projects and initiatives closely interfacing with Audio Production, Product, Audio Post-Production and Engineering teams within large organizations.
• Experience working with privacy, compliance, contracts, and/or similar domains.
• Knowledge of speech technology pipelines and the standard practices within large corporate settings.
• Previously established relationships within the Speech Technology industry.
• Deep understanding of challenges specific to audio production pipelines including, but not limited to, techniques for risk mitigation, team/studio capacity planning, and resource management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• On-the-ground experience with speech synthesis technology teams.
• General understanding of contract negotiations with real world experience
• Experience building, deploying, and advocating for agile project management tooling in an audio production style setting (e.g., Jira, Asana, Trello)

Competitive base salary

Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K retirement plan

Who we are:

PTW is a boutique games services company that provides custom solutions worldwide. We believe in accelerating innovation across the globe. We started more than 25 years ago and since then, have grown exponentially year-on-year to who we are today. Our history is in gaming, and we are still gamers at heart. In our time within the games industry, we have worked on over 1,500 titles across all genres and all platforms.

We have grown rapidly over the past few years and now have 16 sites spanning the globe. The PTW umbrella of companies includes SIDE, 1518, OR Esports, and Entalize. SIDE works at the cutting edge of interactive media as a provider of audio services for the global entertainment market. 1518 is known industry wide for world-class art and is also our in-house game and product development studio.

Basically, anywhere in the world, any platform, any genre, we can help come up with a custom solution to make games run better, get to market faster, and enhance the lives of more players.

In summary, we connect and bring fun to the world.

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