Contract Project Manager – Software Development
Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.
Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.
Location: Remote (USA only)
Annual salary: USD 90,000 to USD 120,000
Type: Contract
Reports to: VP, Design
The Role
As Project Manager, you’ll own the day-to-day planning and execution of our OS development. You will support our in-house team and coordinate with our remote development partner. Your mission is to keep both our releases on schedule, ensuring each deliverable meets our high quality and simplicity standards.
Key duties include:
- Team Coordination: Drive alignment and execution across engineering, design, QA, and external partners to deliver platform milestones with clarity and urgency.
- Release Planning: Lead the planning and tracking of our OS releases – including major quarterly releases and updates.
- Agile Process: Facilitate sprint planning and backlog grooming; define milestones and set clear agendas for weekly leadership review meetings.
- Execution & Accountability: Maintain execution momentum by keeping deliverables on track, upholding sprint cadences, and ensuring team accountability to commitments.
- Cross-Team Communication: Act as a communications hub by aggregating issues and feedback from Slack and our Facebook community, and ensuring all stakeholders stay aligned and informed.
- Tools Management: Maintain project tools (Jira, Notion): keep sprint boards updated, ensure feature specs and processes are documented in Notion, and organize all tracking systems.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Promote team alignment and stakeholder visibility by providing regular status updates and helping structure effective collaboration across all groups.
Qualifications
As Project Manager, you’ll own the day-to-day planning and execution of our OS development. You will support our in-house team and coordinate with our remote development partner. Your mission is to keep both our releases on schedule, ensuring each deliverable meets our high quality and simplicity standards.
- 5+ years of experience in software project management in a fast-moving, high-accountability environment.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver frequent, high-quality software releases on schedule.
- Proven skill coordinating across remote teams and managing asynchronous workflows.
- Highly organized and self-motivated; you set standards for planning and rigorously enforce accountability.
- Hands-on, pragmatic mindset – you challenge assumptions and trim scope for simplicity
- Strong proficiency with project management tools (Jira, Notion, etc.) and excellent written/verbal communication skills.
- Exceptional cross-functional leadership – no direct reports, but you drive teams by influence and ensure projects get done.
- US-based (remote work OK) with flexibility for occasional travel to meet the team in person.
- Familiarity with embedded operating systems is a plus.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
At Nex, you’ll operate like a true owner of the project. Our culture is startup-casual: nimble, energetic, and mission-driven, with every team member’s input valued. You’ll work closely with executive leadership and see the direct impact of your work on the product. If you’re an organized self-starter who thrives on initiative, clear communication, and simplifying complex challenges, you’ll fit right in. Join us and help shape the future of family gaming by leading this ambitious embedded OS project from concept to launch.
We Offer
- Competitive compensation package.
- Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
- Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
- Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field
Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!
Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.
We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.