Thatgamecompany
Project Manager, Growth
7mo ago
Worldwide
Project Manager role coordinating cross-functional workflows to support publishing efforts across APAC for a game company.
Responsibilities
- We are looking for a highly organised and multilingual Project Manager to support our Publishing efforts across APAC. This role acts as the operational backbone for our regional initiatives - coordinating cross-functional workflows and ensuring momentum on key publishing projects.
- You will work closely with teams across Productions, Marketing, Operations and external partners to drive clarity, alignment, and execution. This role is ideal for someone with hands-on games publishing experience who thrives in structured problem-solving and cross-cultural collaboration.
- This role will function as a chief-of-staff-style PM, enabling the team to operate at-scale and grow the publishing function in two of our most important regions.
- • Drive day-to-day execution across regional publishing initiatives, including marketing campaigns, creative localisation, community activations and partner relations.
- • Serve as a PM across internal and external stakeholders, drive deliverables, aligning timelines, managing blockers and ensuring smooth handoff between teams to meet deadlines.
- • Act as a single point of coordination for SEA and Japan publishing matters - facilitate weekly syncs, maintain milestone trackers, triage requests and drive follow-up action across departments.
- • Maintain regional publishing calendars, project tracker and documentation to ensure alignment across teams.
- • Coordinate regional insights and status updates into structured weekly or milestone reports for leadership review.
- • Identify operational bottlenecks and propose improvements to increase team efficiency
- • Support ad-hoc tasks and special projects as needed (research, admin, presentation prep etc.)
Requirements
- • Professional fluency in English, Japanese and Mandarin (written and spoken).
- • At least 3 years of hands-on experience in free-to-play live-service game publishing.
- • Strong project management skills and able to juggle multiple workstreams.
- • Excellent communication and cross-cultural collaboration skills.
- • High ownership and accountability, proactive with problem-solving with strong follow-through.
Nice to have
- • A true gamer who is passionate about video games and has a deep understanding of the gaming industry.
- • Experience working with Japanese or SEA player communities, creators or marketing channels with a strong regional network.
- • Comfortable with project management and data tools (Slack, Notion, Figma etc.).
- • Experience with indie game publishing.
Other
- Project Manager, Growth
- thatgamecompany is best recognized for creating award-winning, enriching, and meaningful game titles such as Journey, Flower and flOw. Our most recent game, Sky: Children of the Light, has attracted a global audience of over 300 million passionate fans on mobile devices, PC, Nintendo Switch, and Sony PlayStation.