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Technical Project Manager in Barcelona

King

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Onsite
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Full-Time
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Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for a Technical Project Manager who is willing to take the lead and ensure successful end- to- end delivery of some of the most important technology transformation projects around King.

Your Role Within our Kingdom

If you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a fast and fluid environment, then King is the place for you! As a member of the IT and Security PMO team you’ll be responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating agile project teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering transformation projects that provide exceptional business value to our users.

You will be responsible for leading several concurrent high visibility technological projects in a fast- paced environment that may cross multiple teams and business areas. You will take care, among other things, of:

  • Project Planning and Management - Define project scope and schedule, while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects.

  • Team Management - Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members

  • Process Management and Improvement - Define and manage the end- to- end project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management.

  • Team building - promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high- levels of quality for the team.

Skills to Create Thrills

You have a high level of knowledge and experience of blending traditional project management with an Agile project management mindset approach.

Also, you have experience in leading large- scale cross- department and cross functional projects and programs.

Other skills in your toolbox include:

  • Verifiable experience in project or product management using both traditional and agile principles.

  • Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.

  • Proven ability to lead technological projects in areas such Security, IT and/or Software Development, ensuring objectives, goals, and commitments are met.

  • Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs with the ability to establish/maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.

  • Excellent oral and written communications skills. Comfortable communicating with large number of different stakeholders.

  • Creative approach to problem- solving with the ability to focus on details while maintaining the "big picture" view.

  • Attention to detail and accuracy are essential; must be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and results driven.

Tasty Bonus Skills

  • You have some Project Management or Agile Certifications in your pocket (PMP, Prince2 PMI- ACP, Scrum Master, Product Owner, others)

  • Strong interpersonal skills such as mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building

  • You keep up to date on the latest strategies, tools and terminologies used in agile project management and adopt them to increase productivity.

  • Experience in evangelising and promoting agile project management practices to teams to foster collaboration and transparency.

  • Outstanding ability to understand complex technical topics and articulate them clearly and simply.

  • You have written code in the past or have a technical/security background.

We’re Seriously Playful

Officially, we are a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that takes pride in having fun. Every single day at King, we mix intuition with logic, art with science and magic with mathematics to craft the games the world loves to play. Together with our parent company, Activision Blizzard, our mission is to bring moments of magic to everyday life. Do you think this is something you can help us achieve? Then we’d love to talk with you

A Great Saga Needs Diverse Heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people that share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great. No matter where you’re from, it’s all about what we can achieve together when creating truly magical moments for all our players. That’s why we hire all sorts of talent - because a great saga needs all sorts of heroes.

Want to join our Kingdom?

Application needs to be in English.

Apply now!

 

About King

  • Games

  • Privately Held

  •  London, United Kingdom

  • 1001-5000 employees

  • 2003

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games.

We have developed more than 200 fun titles, and offer games in over 200 countries and regions. Our franchises include Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 340 million average monthly unique users, as of second quarter 2015, across web, social and mobile platforms. 

At King, we design games with a broad appeal, which allow people to play for a moment, then move on with their day and pick up their game later. Our games are also synchronized across platforms, allowing players to switch seamlessly between devices and platforms and continue their game wherever they left off, so they can play anywhere, any time and on any device. For us, this is encapsulated in the idea of bitesized entertainment. 



King has game studios in Stockholm, Bucharest, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Singapore, and Seattle, along with offices in San Francisco, Malta, Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai.


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