Senior Manager, Production (Scheduling & Reporting)

That's No Moon is an independent studio of storytellers and game-makers who believe in the power of narrative-driven experiences. With a diverse team of talented developers, our shared vision is to create the future of AAA experiences with a culture of creativity, collaboration, and responsible production practices. Our passionate team of developers helps shape our studio, our projects, and our future. We are seeking a Senior Manager, Production to own the architecture, governance, and forecasting of the game’s integrated production schedule in support of delivering a AAA action-adventure game. This role is first and foremost a senior project management function responsible for ensuring the integrity, predictive reliability, and executive transparency of the macro game schedule, cross-department dependencies, and production performance data. Your strengths combine deep project management rigor, analytical thinking, and cross-discipline leadership to ensure large teams operate against a clear, credible, and continuously validated production plan. Responsibilities: Drive structured, data-informed decision-making with directors and discipline leads to protect scope, quality, and milestone commitments. Own and maintain the integrated cross-department macro schedule including milestone architecture, feature sequencing, dependency mapping, and critical path dependencies through Gold. Serve as the single point of accountability for schedule integrity. Ensure all departmental plans and forecasts are capacity-validated, reconciled, and aligned to the macro production plan. Architect and maintain the scheduling framework used by the project, including planning standards, dependency modeling approaches, and forecasting methodologies that ensure consistent schedule reliability across pillars. Enforce schedule discipline across pillars by identifying variance, forecast drift, and dependency risk while driving corrective action to maintain milestone confidence. Maintain formal risk tracking, identify and flag delivery risks early, escalate when appropriate, and confirm mitigation plans are defined. Own production velocity metrics and forecasting models, translating production system data into forward-looking schedule projections and milestone confidence assessments. Produce standardized executive reporting that clearly communicates schedule health, forecast accuracy, and dependency risk. Provide forward-looking delivery forecasts and scenario modeling to support executive planning, scope decisions, and milestone readiness assessments. Requirements Skills: Proven experience delivering AAA video games, preferably action-adventure or narrative-driven titles with complex cross-discipline dependencies and milestone-driven production cycles. Demonstrated expertise in constructing and maintaining integrated production schedules, including dependency mapping, capacity planning, milestone modeling, and critical path analysis. Advanced proficiency with Jira (or equivalent production systems), including workflow configuration, dashboard/report creation, and data extraction for forecasting and variance analysis. Strong analytical capability and ability to translate production data into velocity trends, burn-down forecasts, schedule variance insights, and milestone confidence projections. Experience producing executive-level reporting that enables clear scope, risk, and investment decisions. Solid knowledge of structured project management methodologies (Agile, hybrid, milestone-gated development) applied within complex creative production environments. Experience building or refining production planning frameworks, reporting standards, or schedule governance practices within large-scale game development teams. Qualifications: Demonstrated ability to operate with precision in a technically sophisticated, fast-paced AAA production environment while maintaining schedule integrity under pressure. Exceptional written and verbal commun ... (truncated, view full listing at source)