Assistant Development Manager

Overview: Dovetail Games is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all, regardless to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof) education background and game preferences as we seek to recruit the very best from a diverse talent pool. We are committed to promoting diversity, and all applicants will be considered on their merit, qualifications, competence, and talent regardless of any protected characteristics. At the individuals request all roles will be considered for part time, term time only and job shares.
Our people can be based “where they do their best work” from either our HQ or from their home (UK based only / VISA sponsorship available on qualifying roles). However occasional travel to HQ office will be required for key meetings and events.
At Dovetail Games we are passionate about empowering our people to build beautiful worlds, craft breath-taking games and do the best work of their career to deliver our vision: “By Enthusiasts, For Enthusiasts”.
Our studio is situated in a river-front building in the heart of the Historic Dockyard in Chatham, Kent, UK. We are growing fast, developing our games using cutting-edge technology and delivering these on multiple platforms: PC, PlayStation 4 and 5 and Xbox One and Series S/X
We are looking for a talented and dedicated Assistant Development Manager (ADM), reporting into the Development Manager, to support the task tracking and reporting of progress on our UE4 Train Sim World titles.
The ADM should thrive in a cross-game, quality focussed and fast paced development environment. As an ADM within Dovetail Games you’ll be responsible for working with the leads of game features to assist with the task breakdown, tracking and reporting of simulation features, maintaining game schedules of both internal and external resources on a day to day basis. Responsibilities:

• Assist in the project management for various dev disciplines and feature teams supporting the Development Manager.
• Collaborate with team members to establish realistic expectations for timelines & deliverables.
• Monitoring change requests and reporting significant changes to scope to Dev Manager and Senior Producer.
• Help determine potential production/process problems or improvements.
• Collaborating with Development Manager and Senior Producer to develop and plan schedules based on business objectives.
• Dealing with minor production problems and coordinating staff towards a resolution.
• Support the Development Manager in maintaining production tracking information within the project’s scheduling and bug reporting software.

Person Specifications:

• Project Management Qualifications in at least one recognised methodology beneficial.
• Development Management or Production experience in a software development role.
• Good knowledge of software product life cycles, tools, processes and execution planning.
• Experience keeping complicated, multi-disciplinary projects on schedule.
• Extremely organized, able to manage multiple projects concurrently, able to adapt quickly to new tools, processes and challenges.
• A working familiarity with the JIRA issue tracking software or a comparable application.

About Dovetail Games:

• You will have a direct and significant impact on the future of our games.
• You’ll experience an environment where you will be challenged but supported.
• We have an industry leading work-life balance.
• Opportunity to work fully UK based remote.
• VISA sponsorship available on qualifying roles.
• Explorer policy, allowing you to roam up to 4 weeks of the year without using your leave.
• Half Day Pay Day holiday – adding 6 days to allowance.
• My Rewards benefits package including health cash plan, eyecare and GP Anytime.
• Cycle to work and tech scheme.
• Green Car benefits scheme provided by Tusker.
• Gymflex membership.
• Amazon Voucher on your birthday.
• Branded merch and swag.
• Access to funded fitness events and health checks.
• Regular social and sporting activities, including charity fundraising.