Project Manager

Salary Range: 100000 to 180000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Key responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional projects from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with initiatives’ goals
• Turn greenlit initiatives into structured projects, establishing scope, timelines, and deliverables in collaboration with identified stakeholders
• Manage stakeholder communication, keeping all business units informed, aligned, and engaged throughout the project lifecycle
• Proactively escalate challenges to key business leaders, assess possible scenarios, and develop potential solutions with trade-offs to support informed decision-making
• Optimize resource allocation, ensuring the right people and digital resources (e.g., GPU allocation, render capacity, infrastructure) are assigned based on project needs and availability
• Facilitate the integration of stage hardware, camera workflows, and technical infrastructure required for projects, by coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring seamless collaboration
• Work closely with stage operations teams, engineers, and creative production teams to ensure alignment between physical and digital production processes
• Ensure reporting follows best practices, providing visibility into project status, key milestones, and risks
• Support operational handovers, ensuring a seamless transition to long-term owners such as operations and production teams
• Partner with Product Management to align on strategy while collaborating on leadership, stakeholder management, roadmaps, risk, and key metricFacilitate the integration of stage hardware, camera workflows, and technical infrastructure by coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring seamless collaborations to drive success
• Provide project management guidance to non-PMO-led initiatives, offering best practices, frameworks, and tools to help teams structure and manage their projects effectively, even when a dedicated Project Manager is not assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, business, technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Strong understanding of core project management methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches; PMP, Scrum Master, or other relevant certifications are a plus
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Visual Effects, Stage Operations, or Production Technology, with at least 3 years in a project management capacity
• Experience managing projects across different lifecycles, including software development, creative production (e.g., VFX, animation, design), operational process improvements, infrastructure deployments, and product launches
• Experience working with stage hardware, virtual production technology, or on-set production tools, including LED volumes, motion capture systems, camera tracking, and real-time rendering pipelines
• Excellent interpersonal skills to lead and align multi-disciplinary teams, including senior stakeholders
• Effective communication and listening skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly, inspire teams, and facilitate productive discussions
• Strong leadership qualities—able to support, coach, and advocate for teams while maintaining focus on overall business goals
• High adaptability and resilience, with the ability to navigate change and shifting priorities effectively
• Exceptional time management and organizational skills, capable of maintaining structured project plans and managing data within project management tools
• Experience managing projects in technology, creative, or operational environments, such as software development, VFX, IT, media, or content production