Project Manager

Job Post: Delivery Headoss multiple client and internal initiatives. This is a high-impact role for a results-driven professional who thrives on turning complex scopes into on-time, on-budget, high-quality outcomes while maintaining complete visibility on timelines, budgets, risks, and team performance.

Location: Chennai

Exp: 8-12 years

What You’ll Own

• End-to-end delivery of assigned projects — from kickoff through final handover — ensuring work is completed on time, within scope, within budget, and at the expected quality standard.
• Breaking down project scope into clear milestones, tasks, timelines, budgets, and team-level execution plans.
• Daily progress tracking, early identification of delays or cost overruns, and decisive corrective action.
• Full budget ownership: defining budgets, monitoring costs and burn rates, flagging deviations, managing scope changes with proper approvals, and delivering regular forecasts and reports.
• Coordinating cross-functional teams (artists, developers, technical artists, designers, coordinators, and external partners) with clear ownership, priorities, deadlines, and budget awareness.
• Serving as the primary delivery point of contact for clients and internal leadership — providing transparent updates on progress, risks, blockers, budget status, and next steps while managing expectations around timelines, quality, and scope.
• Establishing robust quality checkpoints, coordinating internal reviews and QA, and ensuring client feedback is actioned and closed.
• Maintaining visibility on risks, blockers, scope creep, and bottlenecks; escalating early with context and solutions; and driving items to resolution.
• Building and refining delivery trackers, dashboards, status reports, processes, and documentation standards so nothing falls through the cracks.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of strong project, production, or delivery management experience, ideally in creative production, animation, gaming, Unreal Engine, virtual production, immersive tech, interactive applications, or CGI pipelines.
• Proven ability to manage project budgets, resource utilization, cost optimization, and financial reporting.
• Experience leading and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams of artists, developers, designers, and technical talent.
• Excellent communication, follow-up, and stakeholder management skills — comfortable converting vague requirements into actionable plans and managing high-pressure client-facing delivery.
• Strong command of production pipelines, creative workflows, and technical dependencies.
• Discipline in documentation, reporting, and process improvement (familiarity with tools such as Jira, ClickUp, Google Sheets/Excel, Slack, or Teams is a plus).
• A practical, problem-solving mindset with the ability to see the full picture — client expectations, team progress, quality, financial health, and hidden risks — and drive real closure, not just activity.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Design, Technology, Media, Animation, Engineering, Finance, or a related field preferred. Hindi (read, write & speak) is a bonus.