Manager, Publishing Operations

thatgamecompany•Los Angeles, CA

2d•$126,000 - $148,500•Remote

About The Position

The Manager, Publishing Operations leads the project management team and oversees project management across integrated marketing campaigns, live operations, and ongoing publishing initiatives. The role manages and develops project managers responsible for storefront submissions, ASO, and marketing creative; establishes consistent planning and delivery practices; and maintains visibility across the publishing portfolio so priorities, dependencies, resources, and risks are understood. The manager works across Brand, Creative, Communications, Community, User Acquisition, Storefront, Game Development, Production, and external partners to coordinate complex initiatives. In partnership with publishing leadership, this role identifies delivery risks, resolves cross-functional challenges, and communicates progress, capacity, and decisions needed. It balances detailed project oversight with organizational priorities, coaching the team and building processes that create clarity without adding unnecessary bureaucracy. The role oversees portfolio planning and delivery, cross-functional coordination, alignment between game development and publishing, publishing operations and process improvement, external partner and budget management, and planning for major launches and integrated campaigns from kickoff through post-launch review.

Requirements

8–10+ years of experience in marketing project management, integrated marketing, production management, publishing operations, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience leading, managing, or mentoring project managers, with an interest in team development.
Experience managing complex cross-functional marketing initiatives with multiple parallel workstreams and dependencies.
Strong understanding of game development and publishing workflows and how development milestones affect marketing execution.
Experience overseeing multiple concurrent projects or a portfolio of initiatives and identifying cross-project risks and resource conflicts.
Strong skills in project planning, prioritization, risk management, stakeholder communication, and delivery oversight.
Experience establishing project management processes, reporting practices, and operational workflows that improve team effectiveness.
Ability to communicate project health, capacity constraints, and delivery risks clearly to senior stakeholders.
Experience coordinating external agencies, vendors, budgets, and production partners.
Excellent judgment and ability to navigate changing priorities, ambiguity, and competing demands.
Collaborative leadership style that builds trust, encourages accountability, and empowers teams.
Genuine enthusiasm for games and appreciation for thatgamecompany's creative approach.
Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; the company is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop the project management team, setting expectations for project ownership, communication, planning, and delivery.
Coach project managers through feedback and professional development, and ensure they have the context, tools, and support to work effectively and independently.
Oversee project assignments and workload distribution based on team capacity, project complexity, and organizational priorities.
Establish consistent standards for project plans, milestone tracking, status reporting, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
Review project health and identify issues requiring support, cross-functional alignment, or leadership intervention.
Maintain an integrated view of publishing initiatives, including launches, campaigns, live operations, and partner projects.
Align project plans with publishing priorities, realistic timelines, resource availability, and dependencies; monitor portfolio health for conflicts, constraints, and risks.
Partner with publishing leadership to assess priorities and trade-offs, recommend changes to scope, sequencing, or resourcing, and report progress, milestones, risks, and decisions required.
Ensure project managers communicate changes that may affect other teams, campaigns, or launch commitments, and help teams anticipate upcoming publishing demands.
Coordinate across Brand, Creative, Communications, Community, User Acquisition, Storefront, Production, and other stakeholders; ensure initiatives have clear ownership, timelines, dependencies, and decision-making processes.
Resolve cross-functional challenges, build trusted relationships with functional leads and publishing leadership, and support appropriate issue escalation.
Oversee coordination between marketing project management and game development and production teams, acting as a dedicated point of contact for sharing key information with publishing.
Ensure publishing plans account for development milestones, content readiness, feature timing, build availability, and other critical dependencies.
Assess the impact of development schedule or scope changes on marketing deliverables and launch readiness, and establish escalation and communication practices for such changes.
Own and continuously improve project management practices, tools, reporting, and operating rhythms; develop scalable approaches to planning, risk tracking, dependency management, approvals, and portfolio visibility.
Simplify workflows, improve delivery predictability, lead retrospectives and post-launch reviews, and translate lessons learned into practical improvements.
Ensure project managers maintain clear scopes, timelines, deliverables, and approval processes with agencies, vendors, freelancers, and production partners.
Oversee project-level budget tracking, vendor commitments, forecasts, and financial reporting; partner with finance and marketing leads on variances and upcoming commitments.
Maintain visibility into internal and external resource constraints and surface capacity, budget, and delivery trade-offs early.
Oversee planning for major launches and integrated campaigns from kickoff through post-launch review, including creative production, communications, community, user acquisition, storefronts, localization, development dependencies, and external partners.
Establish milestone reviews and readiness checkpoints for high-priority initiatives, support resolution of blockers, and ensure post-launch learnings inform future planning and execution.

Benefits

Paid time off, holidays, and a two-week winter break.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, effective on the first day of employment.
Pet insurance.
Compassionate leave to care for family members.
Pre-tax wellness stipend.
Pre-tax work-from-home stipend.
401(k) savings plan with company match.
Mental health resources, including Headspace membership and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Discount portal for everyday goods and services.
Employee inclusion and diversity initiatives, including Grow Together.
Support for personal professional development.
Opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus.