Senior Development Director – AAA Console Games

Housemarque; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Housemarque, the award-winning PlayStation studio behind Returnal and SAROS, seeks an experienced development and project management leader to drive planning, execution, and continuous improvement of a large-scale console game project.

We are looking for someone to lead the project management discipline across the project; coordinating scope, resources, budget, risk and development planning with Product, Creative and Game leadership to create a clear path to our goals.

Qualifications

• Experience leading production for large-scale AAA console/PC games.
• Proven ability to plan, schedule and manage budgets and resources.
• Strong communication to align creative, technical and production teams.
• Ability to operate at scale with distributed teams and partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead project management across a large-scale console game project, driving planning and execution against key milestones and deliverables.
• Partner with Product, Creative and Game leadership to turn project goals and priorities into clear, achievable development plans.
• Lead project-wide scope, capacity and resource planning, balancing ambition, available resources, timelines and budget.
• Establish effective risk management practices, identifying high-impact risks early and driving solutions alongside project leadership.
• Develop and continuously improve workflows, processes and organisational structures that enable teams to collaborate and deliver effectively at scale.
• Own project-level budgeting and forecasting, and represent the project in broader studio resource and capacity planning.
• Coordinate complex development dependencies across internal teams, external partners and co-development studios.
• Provide clear visibility into project health, priorities, risks and trade-offs to studio leadership and key stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Budgeting & forecasting

Resource planning

Stakeholder communication

Distributed teams

Process improvement

Job description

Housemarque, the award-winning PlayStation studio behind Returnal and SAROS, seeks an experienced development and project management leader to drive planning, execution, and continuous improvement of a large-scale console game project.

We are looking for someone to lead the project management discipline across the project; coordinating scope, resources, budget, risk and development planning with Product, Creative and Game leadership to create a clear path to our goals.