Project Coordinator

Yotta Games; El Segundo (CA); Hybrid; USD 34.000 - 48.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Yotta Games in Los Angeles (LA studio) is seeking a Project Coordinator to join the core team and work with colleagues in LA and Shanghai. You will help create schedules, align departments, and drive milestones to ensure on-time delivery for a global audience of players.

You will collaborate with LA and Shanghai teams, hold regular status meetings, and break down complex projects into manageable tasks. The role is hybrid in El Segundo with Pacific Time hours and a base pay range of $25-$35/hour.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree or above.
• Excellent English skills, written and verbal.
• 1–2 years of experience in game development as a project coordinator or similar role.
• Strong understanding of game development, project management processes and agile methodologies.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence (or similar tools).
• Proven track record of helping publish games or software on time.
• Ability to analyze project data and build regular risk/action reports.

Aufgaben

• Create and maintain schedules and milestone documentation; monitor progress.
• Build shared strategy across LA departments; establish or modify processes.
• Hold regular LA team meetings to discuss status and issues.
• Break down large projects into sub-projects and ensure timely delivery.
• Facilitate communication between LA and Shanghai teams; coordinate with Shanghai Project Managers.

Kenntnisse

Excellent English

Cross-team collaboration

Organizational skills

Multitasking

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree or above

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Jobbeschreibung

Yotta’s huge fanbase has helped turn us into a globally ranked game developer with offices worldwide. Despite our success, at heart we are still players trying to create exciting and engaging, never-before-experienced games. That drive to make games that we want to play is what animates our well-resourced, ambitious, creative team members. Working together in a supportive, open workplace and taking cues from our gaming communities, we create products that entertain the world.

Responsibilities

We are on the lookout for a Project Coordinator who possesses great passion for the gaming industry and could help us work on a new game project in our LA studio. You will be one of the core team members and collaborate with colleagues locally and in Shanghai to facilitate the progress and completion of this exciting project and eventually deliver it to millions of players all over the world.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Assist project leaders to create and maintain schedules and milestone documentation, monitor the progress of milestones and specific tasks against those schedules;
• Assist project leaders to build shared strategy among different departments in LA. This may involve establishing new processes and frameworks, or modifying existing ones;
• Hold regular meetings with teams in LA to discuss status of deliverables, resolve issues, and share information;
• Break down large, complex projects into meaningful sub-projects, ensure team objectives and tasks are delivered in time, and help identify and remove obstacles to delivery;
• Help facilitate communication between teams in LA and Shanghai, and communicate regularly with Project Managers in Shanghai to maximize cross-departmental collaboration.

Qualifications

We Expect You To Have:

• Bachelor's degree or above;
• Excellent English skills, both written and verbal;
• Around 1-2 years of experience in game development as a project coordinator, production assistant, or similar supportive role;
• Strong understanding of game development, project management processes and practices, and agile development methodologies;
• Deep understanding of the game development process across departments on both the art and technology sides;
• Experience with tools such as JIRA and Confluence (or similar project management tools);
• Proven track record of helping publish games or software in a timely manner;
• Ability to analyze project data and build regular reports of key actions and risks at different levels of detail;
• Strong sense of responsibility, conscientious and responsible, able to work under pressure, able to take the initiative and actively support the project team towards the goal;
• Excellent organizational & prioritization skills, attention to detail, process knowledge, and ability to multitask;
• Passion for video games and knowledge of the games industry.

Even better if you have:

• Experience working on AAA games;
• Experience working on rapid development cycles or on live service game production;
• Fluent in Mandarin, or proven experience facilitating communication across global teams and diverse cultural environments;
• Certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent.

Additional Information

• Hybrid role based in El Segundo (Monday, Wednesday & Thursday on-site);
• Current working hours: Monday – Friday, 11am – 8pm Pacific Time (including one-hour break);
• The estimated base pay range for this role is: $25-$35/hour

Yotta is committed to building an inclusive environment where creative professionals from a multitude of diverse cultural backgrounds collaborate to inspire audiences and each other. We are passionately supportive of equality in all its forms and never discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, orientation, identity, national origin, handicap, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law.