Associate Producer [Assassin's Creed]

As an Associate Producer, you will lead the development of the game's narrative, including cinematic teams, directing, scriptwriting, scripted events, and audio. A key part of this role involves organizing motion capture and audio recording sessions, ensuring they meet quality objectives and stay within budget, utilizing internal service teams. Through meticulous planning and oversight, you will maintain development pace, ensuring efficient resource allocation and adaptability. You will also focus on enhancing production capacity and quality, fostering a supportive environment for your team to deliver their game components on schedule.

Must Have

• Drive game narrative development (cinematic, directing, scriptwriting, audio).
• Organize motion capture and audio recording sessions within budget.
• Maintain development pace through planning and oversight.
• Ensure timely delivery of game components by the team.
• Understand and communicate overall game vision and requirements.
• Establish scope, roadmap, schedule, deliverables, and budgets.
• Develop production workflows, pipelines, and facilitate team interaction.
• Set clear team goals and ensure smooth delivery processes.
• Anticipate risks and implement mitigation plans.
• Lead team meetings for milestones, priorities, updates, and feedback.
• Report progress and budget status to production leadership.
• Continuously improve production processes and methods.
• Participate in team recruitment and professional development.
• 7+ years in video game production or project management.
• Strong experience in creating game narrative (cinematic elements).
• Manage relationships with external partners.
• Demonstrate excellence in problem-solving, flexibility, and assertiveness.
• Familiarity with various project management methodologies.
• Possess excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Exhibit an attentive, collaborative, innovative, and people-oriented approach.

Perks & Benefits

• Hybrid work model

JOB DESCRIPTION

As an Associate Producer, you’ll drive the development of the game's narrative (cinematic teams, directing, scriptwriting, scripted events and audio). This includes, in particular, the following specific mission: everything related to the organization of recording sessions (motion capture and audio), within budgets and in order to achieve quality objectives, relying on internal service teams. This may include casting elements.

Through careful planning, follow-through, and oversight, you’ll keep development on pace, ensuring that time is spent on the right things, and pivot when need be.

While pushing production capacity and quality, you’ll see to it that your team is ready and able to deliver their chunk of the game on time and in a supportive environment.

What you’ll do

• Partner with the core team to understand the overall game vision and requirements + communicate them across the production floor.
• Establish the scope of your area of focus: create its long-term roadmap and schedule, establish its deliverables, quality targets, and key milestones, and define its development strategies and budgets.
• Put everything in place to pave the way for production: develop workflows and pipelines + implement means to facilitate interaction between colleagues.
• Set clear goals for your team members to achieve + make sure the process of delivering those goals is as smooth as possible.
• Anticipate risks & put plans of action in place to overcome them.
• Meet with your team to clarify milestones, prioritize deliverables, give updates, address concerns, provide direction, gather feedback, etc.
• Sync up with the producer, production director, and production managers on progress and momentum + follow up on budgets.
• Look for opportunities to improve and evolve our processes, methods, and practices.
• Take part in recruitment to build your team + foster their professional growth and career progression.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of experience in production or project management in the video game industry;
• Strong experience in creating narrative (minimal cinematic elements) in the field of video games;
• Skills in managing relationships with external partners (contracts, supplier and talent relations) – supported by a dedicated team;
• Excellence in problem-solving, flexibility, ability to assert oneself;
• Plenty of flexibility to adapt to a range of situations & navigate interdependencies;
• Familiarity with a variety of project management methodologies;
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills;
• An attentive, collaborative, and innovative spirit;
• A people-oriented approach: sure, you care about results, but you never lose sight of the dedicated people behind them.

What to send our way

• Your CV highlighting your background, skills, and any games shipped.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help us create the unknown!

We embrace a hybrid work model helping you stay connected with your team and aligned with business priorities, while giving you the opportunity to maintain your work-life balance. Note, that some roles are fully office-based and are not eligible for hybrid work.