Job Description

About the Company

Fantasy Games is a new game-creation initiative inside A5 Labs (San Francisco) - a 6-year-old advanced-tech company building technology for some of the world’s leading poker platforms - and part of a broader iGaming group with decades of operating experience. The project’s mission is to create a new category of casino games by translating the best of casual gameplay (match-3, shooters, runners, and strategy) into iGaming, so the experience feels genuinely fun, skill-influenced, and engaging - not purely luck-driven.

Powered by a top-tier global talent team and advanced AI-driven technology, Fantasy Games is built on A5 Labs’ product and engineering depth. We combine modern game design - clear progression, satisfying core loops, and long-term retention systems - with iGaming-grade reliability and compliance. The result is a portfolio of fresh, player-first titles that can scale globally and help partners differentiate with experiences players actually want to return to.

Position Summary

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager / Game Producer to lead and coordinate design delivery at the game level. This role ensures structured execution, clear prioritization, and cross-functional alignment across Product, Design, Art, Animation & Tech, UX/UI, and Operations.

You will be responsible for maintaining end-to-end visibility of scope, schedule, dependencies, and risks while protecting delivery timelines through strong planning, governance, and stakeholder alignment.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements & Scope Definition

Define clear requirements and acceptance criteria (scope, constraints, priorities, references)
Gather and formalize requirements (user stories, constraints, edge cases)
Break down game features into actionable tasks with clear owners and timelines
Ensure clean task handoff (including Figma links and references)

Backlog Governance & Prioritization

Own and maintain the design backlog
Run regular grooming sessions and remove duplicates
Keep scope and priorities up to date
Prioritize tasks based on impact, effort, dependencies, risks, and deadlines

Sprint Planning & Execution

Plan sprints: define resource allocation and sprint goals (ClickUp tickets + % planned)
Track sprint outcomes (% completed vs planned)
Monitor delivery health and ensure execution discipline
Escalate blockers and protect delivery timelines

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Alignment

Align priorities across Product Managers, stakeholders, and unit heads
Synchronize design leads across the project
Coordinate cross-unit and vendor dependencies (Art, Animation & Tech, UX/UI, Operations)
Resolve trade-offs and cross-team conflicts

Delivery Oversight & Tracking

Maintain end-to-end visibility of scope, schedule, dependencies, and risks at the game level
Track progress and blockers in ClickUp (or have experience with other PM tools) and Figma
Ensure consistent use of delivery tools and reporting standards
Communicate progress, decisions, and risks clearly to stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of experience as a Project Manager / Producer (preferably in game dev), with a focus on design delivery and cross-functional teams.
Experience managing game-level delivery: multiple workstreams (Product/Design/Art/Tech/UX/UI/Ops) in parallel, with dependencies and risks.
Understanding of the full game development cycle: from discovery/concept to production, integration, QA, and release.
Experience building/optimizing processes: backlog governance, Agile rituals, rules for working with requirements and artifacts (Figma/Click Up or other PM tools).
Experience coordinating vendors/outsourcing (art/animation/tech) and in-house teams.
Fluency in Mandarin and English, sufficient to lead meetings and drive stakeholder alignment.

Nice to have:

PMP / PMI-ACP / Scrum Master or equivalent certifications.
Experience with UX research, usability practices, accessibility standards.
Experience with product metrics/analytics (events, features, KPI) to prioritize better.

Technical Skills

Delivery & Agile

Scrum / Kanban in practice: sprint planning, capacity planning, velocity, controlling % planned vs % completed.
Backlog management: grooming, deduplication, prioritization by impact/effort/risk/dependencies/deadlines.
Requirements management: user stories, acceptance criteria, edge cases, DoR/DoD, change control (managing scope changes).
Dependency & risk management: risk register, critical path, working with blockers, escalations, buffer planning.
Status reporting and governance: regular updates, decisions/change log, transparent rules for working with tasks.

Tooling

ClickUp: structuring spaces/folders, task templates, fields/statuses, dashboards, automations, reporting.
Figma: navigating files, working with links/references in tasks, organizing handoff, basic understanding of components/design systems.
Documentation and communication: Confluence/Google Docs, Slack, FigJam.
Tools for planning: Google Sheets, Click Up Gantt Charts (capacity, dependencies, schedules, statuses).

Game/Design Production Literacy

Understanding pipelines: concept → UX/UI → art → animation → engine integration → QA → release.
Basic knowledge of change requests cycles to plan integration and risks correctly.
Ability to formalize “definition of ready” for design: required mockups/specs/states/localization/assets/anims.

Soft Skills

Strong facilitation: grooming, planning, syncs, demos/retro; ability to keep focus and drive decisions.
Communication for different audiences: clearly explain status/risks to product, design, and technical/art teams.
Stakeholder management: aligning priorities, expectations, “what we do now / what we don’t do,” managing “urgent” requests.
Conflict management and negotiation: trade-offs between quality/time/scope, resolving cross-team collisions.
Ownership and proactivity: not waiting for instructions, surfacing problems early, proposing options, protecting timelines.
Systems thinking: seeing the whole “game-level picture”, dependencies, bottlenecks, impact of changes.
Analytical mindset and execution discipline: working with facts (plan/actual), root causes of under-delivery, improving the process.
Empathy for creative roles: structuring work without “breaking” the creative process of design/art.
Stress resilience and flexibility in an environment of frequent changes, deadlines, and parallel initiatives.