Senior Manager, Production (Scheduling & Reporting)

That's No Moon is an independent studio of storytellers and game-makers who believe in the power of narrative-driven experiences. With a diverse team of talented developers, our shared vision is to create the future of AAA experiences with a culture of creativity, collaboration, and responsible production practices. Our passionate team of developers helps shape our studio, our projects, and our future.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Production to own the architecture, governance, and forecasting of the game’s integrated production schedule in support of delivering a AAA action-adventure game. This role is first and foremost a senior project management function responsible for ensuring the integrity, predictive reliability, and executive transparency of the macro game schedule, cross-department dependencies, and production performance data. 

Your strengths combine deep project management rigor, analytical thinking, and cross-discipline leadership to ensure large teams operate against a clear, credible, and continuously validated production plan.

Responsibilities:   

• Drive structured, data-informed decision-making with directors and discipline leads to protect scope, quality, and milestone commitments.
•  Own and maintain the integrated cross-department macro schedule including milestone architecture, feature sequencing, dependency mapping, and critical path dependencies through Gold. 
• Serve as the single point of accountability for schedule integrity. Ensure all departmental plans and forecasts are capacity-validated, reconciled, and aligned to the macro production plan.
•  Architect and maintain the scheduling framework used by the project, including planning standards, dependency modeling approaches, and forecasting methodologies that ensure consistent schedule reliability across pillars. 
•  Enforce schedule discipline across pillars by identifying variance, forecast drift, and dependency risk while driving corrective action to maintain milestone confidence. 
• Maintain formal risk tracking, identify and flag delivery risks early, escalate when appropriate, and confirm mitigation plans are defined. 
• Own production velocity metrics and forecasting models, translating production system data into forward-looking schedule projections and milestone confidence assessments.
• Produce standardized executive reporting that clearly communicates schedule health, forecast accuracy, and dependency risk.
• Provide forward-looking delivery forecasts and scenario modeling to support executive planning, scope decisions, and milestone readiness assessments.

Requirements & Skills:   

• Proven experience delivering AAA video games, preferably action-adventure or narrative-driven titles with complex cross-discipline dependencies and milestone-driven production cycles. 
• Demonstrated expertise in constructing and maintaining integrated production schedules, including dependency mapping, capacity planning, milestone modeling, and critical path analysis. 
• Advanced proficiency with Jira (or equivalent production systems), including workflow configuration, dashboard/report creation, and data extraction for forecasting and variance analysis. 
• Strong analytical capability and ability to translate production data into velocity trends, burn-down forecasts, schedule variance insights, and milestone confidence projections. 
• Experience producing executive-level reporting that enables clear scope, risk, and investment decisions. 
• Solid knowledge of structured project management methodologies (Agile, hybrid, milestone-gated development) applied within complex creative production environments. 
• Experience building or refining production planning frameworks, reporting standards, or schedule governance practices within large-scale game development teams.  

Qualifications:   

• Demonstrated ability to operate with precision in a technically sophisticated, fast-paced AAA production environment while maintaining schedule integrity under pressure. 
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex production data into clear, decision-ready messaging for both development teams and executive stakeholders. 
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