Senior Producer

Oversee projects, or one or more complex cross-discipline feature teams

Establish and maintain team and product roadmaps, evaluating and assessing capacity on a daily basis, proactively assessing and mitigating risk 

Partner with Product Owners and Stakeholders to establish feature goals and deliver features on time

Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies and balance priorities

Partner with the technical and creative leadership teams to ensure project vision, deliverables and goals are met

Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve

Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners

Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members.   

Manage direct reports and support career growth

Establish and maintain regular communication channels with other feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders

Champion effective production processes, identify opportunities to improve processes that will increase quality and efficiency, and help shape the evolution of production practices across the team.

Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects

Is a steady and practiced hand at steering a game’s production through the different stages of development

Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project

Strategic thinker with high proficiency in various project management methodologies, who knows when to apply which methodologies to drive toward effective outcomes

Experience working directly and successfully with external and publisher stakeholders

Demonstrable experience of short and long term scope and capacity management 

Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.

Experience in various project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile

Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines

Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment

Excellent verbal and written skills.

University degree or equivalent professional experience.

Experience in cross-platform development environments

At least 2 shipped AAA game projects

Experience with AzureDevOps, Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools

Project management certifications.