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Production Gaming Lead Producer at KP Recruiting Group

unlimited holidays - extra holidays - extra parental leave - long remote period allowed

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

7+ years of game development experience, 5+ years in a production role, Knowledge of project management methodologies and ability to balance project demands.

Key responsabilities:

Enforcing overall game vision, managing team activities, and providing progress updates
Coordinating with internal/external resources, assisting with content creation and quality control

KP Recruiting Group Human Resources, Staffing & Recruiting SME https://www.kprecruitinggroup.com

11 - 50 Employees

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Job description

This is a remote position.

KP Recruiting Group is a consulting firm that provides leadership and exceptional talent to some of the world’s leading companies. Headquartered in the Midwest, KP Recruiting Group has successfully completed countless engagements in the United States, Europe and Latin America. We represent clients in all industries and all sizes. Our mission is to provide exceptional client and candidate experiences in order to get the best possible results. On behalf of our client, we are excited to present the following confidential role. We look forward to hearing from you and discussing the opportunity!

The Role:

The Lead producer will be responsible for enforcing the overall vision for the direction and quality of the game, as well as overseeing, coordinating, tracking, and managing the activities of the team to ensure that project goals are completed on time. We expect you to provide progress updates to studio leadership, and to coordinate and manage with internal Brand/Marketing, external Marketing, Outsourcing resources, and first-party console resources.Additional tasks include coordinating with Lead Producers in our other studios, as well as assisting with content creation for game development and assisting with quality control of all products.A Lead Producer is self-motivated, highly organized, and detail-oriented with the ability to coordinate, track, and guide activities of the development team to ensure that projects are completed on time and with high quality. Exposure to formal project management techniques in an internal development environment is a must; experience building and maintaining schedules are necessary.

Requirements

7+ years of game development experience from which at least 5 are in an internal development Production role
Been credited on at least 2 shipped AA+ multi-platform titles in a management position
A demonstrated understanding of various Project Management methodologies including Scrum/Agile, as well as good organizational skills and an ability to balance project demands with high quality
A demonstrated ability to mitigate risk and prioritize features based on their cost and risk versus their value to the project
Strong knowledge of Excel, Word, & PowerPoint
Proficiency with project management tools such as JIRA
The ability to drive teams of developers to ensure timely deliveries
Good people skills, and approachable attitude towards colleagues and other stakeholders
Excellent communicator in speech and writing
A calm and deliberate approach within a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment
Experience working with larger projects across multiple time zones and gathering feature requests from multiple stakeholders
An understanding of open-world survival games, their feature and retention values, and the ability to make production decisions based on that understanding
Ability to challenge and support the game producer, creative director, Business, and Marketing to ensure the quality of the connected game experience
A passion for video games

In addition, the perfect candidate has:

Experience managing external developers/resources
Deep knowledge about game development processes for engineering, design, and art
Experience with post-launch support and content updates
Scrum Master certification