Project Manager / Producer
(f/d/m)
We are looking for a full-time Project Manager/Producer to work on-site in Vienna, Austria. You’ll support our production team, following up on project goals and timelines. Read on below for details!

This is what you do
As a Project Manager (or Producer, in game development nomenclature), you are the person responsible for a project coming together. Supported by our Production Director and Senior Project Managers, you stay close to your team, helping any project stay on track considering its goals and timeline.
For this to happen, you proactively identify and itemize explicit and implicit requirements, plan for the people, time and budget needed and consider the trade-offs involved. Of course, none of this happens in a vacuum, so you can look forward to support from designers, artists and technicians on your teams, but make no mistake: Even the most experienced developers occasionally lose track of project priorities and boundaries. It’s on you to recognize this and make a constructive, positive case for reigning in the rampant creativity to get your team back on track. Or better yet, know the signs and prevent the rabbit-holing altogether. Throughout all of this, you’ll be adjusting schedules and accounting for the consequences as you go along.
In the beginning, you’ll be able to dedicate all your attention to one project of 5-10 people. You prepare meetings & agendas, take notes throughout, create and prioritize tickets, follow up on their progress and gather feedback. In addition, you’ll be responsible for ordering materials such as builds or documentation from your team and coordinating their creation and delivery. This will help you gain the skills and confidence needed to later take on several projects at the same time, without losing sight of what’s important.
When a project needs external help, you’re the one finding and approaching independent partners and help negotiate availability and compensation. You facilitate review and approval through colleagues in the respective fields and, finally, make sure nothing is blocking our cherished partners from getting paid on time.
Aligning with Mi’pu’mi’s production director or Senior Project Managers on bigger-picture topics regularly rounds out your responsibilities. This includes knowing which topics to handle autonomously and what to escalate before it becomes a problem.
Some of what you’ll see
Working in a varied and dynamic environment, it is tough to properly convey in general terms what your job will be like. Therefore, we’d like to give you a couple of examples of situations you may encounter:
- We seek to contract out trailer production on an unannounced project to show to publishers at an upcoming trade show.
- The art department is behind schedule delivering assets for a scene. Lots of dependent tasks are stalling due to this.
- A member of your team is slow to respond and irritable in written communication.
- There are lots of unforeseen absences on one of your projects.
- An external supplier is turning in sub-par work.
- You have trouble clicking with a person leading a department on your project. You sense this is hampering project progress.
Here’s what you bring
Organized and structured work is a matter of personal importance to you. You like proactively establishing systems for planning, measuring and reporting project progress.
Being at the center of any team comes natural to you. Your ability to read between the lines helps you actively seek out any impediments and regularly check in on individuals. Your written and verbal communication is guided by empathy, diligence and a desire for clarity.
You are curious and inquisitive. We don’t expect you to know everything, but we expect a willingness to keep honing your skills on the job: Project management methodologies, game development workflows and techniques, the lot.
You are familiar with workflows and processes in software development and/or creative projects.
You have at least one year of experience in managing a coordinated team effort. This helps you strive to pro-actively identify, mitigate and manage risks.
You understand your role in supporting and guiding others, leading by example, recognizing mental blocks on your teams and effectively dealing with or escalating these topics where necessary.
Job postings often underscore how important it is to have a passion for video games, presumably as a means to depress worker wages. When we talk about passion, we mean: Knowing what the medium can do. Wanting to make the most of our opportunity to speak to people. Genuinely and personally caring about delivering a quality product.
An unprecedented global virus pandemic did not make a dent in your willingness to travel and meet people. A readiness to work flexible hours on occasion to facilitate a meeting across time zones will be appreciated.
Even though English is our official company language, informal office conversation can sometimes happen in German. People will readily switch to English when you get involved. Communication with external partners is almost exclusively in English.
Some of the above is written from a perspective of looking ahead at your future responsibilities and growing into this role. We are committed to support and facilitate this growth - If you bring eagerness and diligence. Add a healthy but not overbearing dose of self-reflection and any team should consider itself lucky to have you. And if anything you learned about us spoke to you, we’d love to be that team!

Compensation & perks
If you have one year of relevant professional experience, you can look forward to an annual gross salary of EUR 44'800,--. If you have fewer, more or other additional qualifications, an adjustment can be negotiated.
This covers 38.5 hours a week at around 44 weeks per year, when bank holidays and your mandatory vacation (see below) are taken into account.
On top of your salary, we offer the following perks:
- Spend one paid day per month on personal training and learning
- Paid overtime (no all-inclusive contracts)
- 25 days of paid vacation (20 days for part-time arrangements, guaranteed by labor law)
- Around ten public holidays per year
- Flexible working hours (core office hours 10:00h-16:00h)
- Liberal remote-office policy
- Monthly get-togethers with free drinks
- German language classes
- Free coffee, tea, soda and fruit
Ready for applying?
Please send an email to jobs@mipumi.com explaining why you would like to work with us and what you can do!
Please don’t forget including a portfolio of relevant previous work!