Manager, Publishing Operations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Lead and nurture the publishing project management team.

• Offer coaching, feedback, and opportunities for professional growth to project managers.

• Supervise project assignments and the distribution of workloads.

• Set standards for project plans, milestone tracking, status reporting, risk management, and stakeholder communication.

• Evaluate project health and pinpoint issues that require support, alignment, or intervention from leadership.

• Maintain a comprehensive view of publishing initiatives, launches, campaigns, live operations, and partner projects.

• Align project plans with priorities, timelines, resource availability, and dependencies.

• Monitor the health of the portfolio delivery, schedule conflicts, capacity constraints, and risks across projects.

• Collaborate with publishing leadership on priorities, trade-offs, scope, sequencing, and resource allocation.

• Provide updates on portfolio progress, milestones, risks, and decisions made by leadership.

• Coordinate cross-functional efforts among Brand, Creative, Communications, Community, User Acquisition, Storefront, Production, Game Development, and external partners.

• Manage marketing project coordination with game development and production teams.

• Account for development milestones, content readiness, feature timing, build availability, and launch dependencies.

• Own and enhance project management practices, tools, reporting, and operational rhythms.

• Establish scalable processes for planning, risk tracking, dependency management, approvals, and portfolio visibility.

• Lead retrospectives and post-launch evaluations.

• Oversee scopes, timelines, deliverables, approvals, budgets, vendor commitments, forecasts, and financial reporting.

• Maintain clarity on internal and external resource constraints and highlight capacity, budget, and delivery trade-offs.

• Manage planning for significant launches and integrated campaigns from kickoff through to post-launch review.

• Set up milestone reviews and readiness checkpoints, ensuring that post-launch insights inform future planning.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8–10+ years of experience in marketing project management, integrated marketing, production management, publishing operations, or a related field.

• Proven experience in leading, managing, or mentoring project managers.

• Experience in handling complex, cross-functional marketing initiatives with multiple parallel workstreams and dependencies.

• Strong understanding of game development and publishing workflows and the impact of development milestones on marketing execution.

• Experience in managing multiple concurrent projects or a portfolio of initiatives, identifying cross-project risks and resource conflicts.

• Proficient in project planning, prioritization, risk management, stakeholder communication, and delivery oversight.

• Experience in establishing project management processes, reporting practices, and operational workflows.

• Ability to clearly communicate project health, capacity constraints, and delivery risks to senior stakeholders.

• Experience in coordinating external agencies, vendors, budgets, and production partners.

• Excellent judgment in navigating changing priorities, ambiguity, and competing demands.

• Collaborative leadership style that fosters trust, promotes accountability, and empowers teams.

• Genuine passion for games and appreciation for thatgamecompany's innovative approach.

• Applicants must have authorization to work for any employer in the U.S.; the company cannot sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.

• Availability to work during core meeting hours of 10 am to 5 pm Pacific Time.

• Must be at least 18 years of age.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid Time Off, Holidays, and Two Weeks Winter Break.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents starting from day one of employment.

• Pet Insurance.

• Compassionate leave for employees needing to care for family members.

• Pre-tax wellness stipend.

• Pre-tax work-from-home stipend.

• 401K program with company match.

• Mental health resources including Headspace membership and Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Discount portal for everyday goods and services.

• Employee inclusion and diversity initiatives such as Grow Together.

• Support for personal professional development.

• Annual discretionary bonus opportunity.