Operations Manager (12-month contract)

Pixion Games Limited; United States; Remote; USD 90.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Pixion Games Limited is seeking an experienced Operations Manager for a fixed-term 12-month contract to support leadership while the Director of Operations is on maternity leave. This fully remote role reports to the CEO and requires hands-on, proactive problem-solving to align operations with company growth and project milestones.

You will lead cost analyses, budgeting processes, and cross-functional collaboration to improve delivery timelines and operational efficiency across the studio.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of Operations Management experience in the tech industry.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams/cross-functional teams.
• Experience working in pre-revenue/pre-profit startups and companies with established operational processes.
• Experience with expense tracking, budgeting, risk management, cost optimization, company documentation management.
• Experience working with fully remote, distributed production teams.
• Fluent English and strong communication skills both written and spoken.

Aufgaben

• Work through the specific goals and challenges we have already identified, help leadership guide execution on them during these 12 months and leave the studio in a clearer operating position for when the Director of Operations returns.
• Support leadership with decision making by providing cost calculations, risks and benefits analysis, resources and feasibility analysis, execution strategies for the new milestones, goals, initiatives, and projects.
• Manage expense tracking, purchase approvals, vendor management, and operational budgeting processes.
• Identify, track, and elevate decisions that are blocking product development in a timely manner, and follow up with the team to support resolution and maintain alignment on timelines and context.
• Partner with the Project Manager and the team in planning scenarios for product milestones scope, timelines, and cost to be presented to the leadership.
• Collaborate with leadership and the team to identify hidden inefficiencies in existing processes, and find solutions to optimise the delivery time and cost.
• Standardize recurring operational processes so the company can operate and scale more smoothly.

Kenntnisse

Operations management

Cross-functional collaboration

English fluency

Remote work experience

Jobbeschreibung

About Pixion Games

Pixion is a globally distributed, fully remote and multicultural team.

We're developing Fableborne, a F2P mobile game that blends base building/deck building with ARPG raiding, and operating a POWER token as part of the company development strategy.

We are looking for the Operations Manager to support Pixion’s leadership and the team while the Director of Operations is on maternity leave. You will report directly to the CEO.

This is a very hands-on role.

This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

Culture Alignment

• We believe AI will evolve all our roles. You invest personal time and experiment during work tasks on how to transform your role to increased outcomes quality and velocity, and are keen to experiment with new ways of applying it to company pipelines and supporting the team with it.

• Our studio culture is one of ownership, collaboration, self-organization and proactive problem solver. We have a senior team of experts in their fields. Whatever operational or execution decisions you make must work with the existing culture not against it.

Responsibilities

• Work through the specific goals and challenges we have already identified, help leadership guide execution on them during these 12 months and leave the studio in a clearer operating position for when the Director of Operations returns.

• Support leadership with decision making by providing cost calculations, risks and benefits analysis, resources and feasibility analysis, execution strategies for the new milestones, goals, initiatives, and projects.

• Manage expense tracking, purchase approvals, vendor management, and operational budgeting processes.

• Identify, track, and elevate decisions that are blocking product development in a timely manner, and follow up with the team to support resolution and maintain alignment on timelines and context.

• Partner with the Project Manager and the team in planning scenarios for product milestones scope, timelines, and cost to be presented to the leadership.

• Collaborate with leadership and the team to identify hidden inefficiencies in existing processes, and find solutions to optimise the delivery time and cost.

• Standardize recurring operational processes so the company can operate and scale more smoothly.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Operations Management experience in the tech industry.

• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams/cross-functional teams.

• Experience working in pre-revenue/pre-profit startups and companies with established operational processes.

• Experience with expense tracking, budgeting, risk management, cost optimization, company documentation management.

• Experience working with fully remote, distributed production teams.

• Fluent English and strong communication skills both written and spoken.

Will be a plus

• Experience in game development or mobile apps development.

• Experience with web3 projects.

• Experience with (or a good understanding of) project management methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean, and the judgment to apply them pragmatically.

Working Hours and Location

• Remote. We don’t offer any visa sponsorship or relocation.

• EU working hours from +3h UTC / -3h UTC.

• Commitment to work within core hours of 9:30am UTC/BST to 4pm UTC/BST.