Senior Studio Ops & Design Systems PM III

IGT; City of Moncton; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IGT is seeking a Project Manager (Studio Operations & Systems) III to partner with game studios and leadership, improving project visibility and planning discipline across 100+ games in 15 global studios. You’ll own systems, data, and cross-functional coordination to align studio needs with enterprise planning and finance.

This hands-on role brings structure to ambiguity, works directly in Clarity PPM and Airtable, and designs practical solutions adopted by studios, mentoring junior Portfolio

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience building and implementing operational solutions using Airtable, low code/no code platforms, BI tools, spreadsheets, or databases.
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business or operational needs into practical workflows, data structures, dashboards, automations, and configurations.
• Experience managing projects, programs, portfolios, or enterprise planning initiatives in a matrixed environment.
• Experience with project budgets, forecasts, staffing plans, and capacity data.
• Experience collecting, validating, reconciling, and reporting across multiple systems.
• Strong organizational and written/verbal communication skills; able to explain complex financial or system information to technical and non technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and iterate on operational solutions in Airtable, Clarity PPM, Excel, and reporting tools—turning ambiguous needs into practical workflows, data structures, dashboards, and automations that reduce manual entry.
• Create and configure projects in Clarity PPM—structures, budgets, cost plans, roles, milestones, and time charging structures—then validate setup, financials, and documentation before handing off to the studio project manager and coaching them on ongoing system use.
• Build and maintain Waterline capacity analyses and scenario models that give studio heads role level visibility of planned vs. current headcount and simulate the impact of date shifts, estimate changes, and cancellations.
• Reconcile information across Clarity PPM, Airtable, spreadsheets, and reporting tools; identify data gaps, sync mismatches, unmapped work, and missing assumptions that affect portfolio reporting.
• Develop reusable templates, standards, documentation, and training that improve consistency across studios, and support adoption of new workflows and tools.
• Support semiannual roadmap planning sessions by gathering, entering, validating, and maintaining long range project and portfolio information, and translating studio roadmaps into structured portfolio views for prioritization, capacity, and investment decisions.
• Maintain project budgets, forecasts, staffing, and planning data as assumptions change; support labor/non labor forecasting, EAC discussions, and capitalization compliant time charging for Finance (depreciation, R&D tax credit).
• Collect, analyze, and report on cost, milestone variance, cycle time, utilization, and other portfolio KPIs; deliver executive dashboards and trend analysis.
• Track portfolio level risks, issues, dependencies, change requests, and decisions, and coordinate follow up with the appropriate owners.
• Serve as a trusted operational partner—making constraints visible and decisions informed—while respecting studio specific processes, cultures, and delivery ownership.
• Support additional portfolio, reporting, staffing, financial planning, or systems initiatives as needed.

Skills

Workflow optimization

Analytical thinking

Self-learning

Trade-off balancing

Portfolio to detail

Influencing without authority

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Airtable

Clarity PPM

Excel

Power Query

Power Pivot/DAX

Job description

IGT is seeking a Project Manager (Studio Operations & Systems) III to partner with game studios and leadership, improving project visibility and planning discipline across 100+ games in 15 global studios. You’ll own systems, data, and cross-functional coordination to align studio needs with enterprise planning and finance.

This hands-on role brings structure to ambiguity, works directly in Clarity PPM and Airtable, and designs practical solutions adopted by studios, mentoring junior Portfolio