Executive Producer - Unannounced AAA Project

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

Kabam seeks an Executive Producer to lead their next AAA game project in Vancouver. Responsibilities include providing creative oversight, ensuring consistent product representation across various media, anticipating business needs, and collaborating with corporate partners. The role demands strategic leadership, problem-solving, and fostering a collaborative environment. The successful candidate will guide teams, make key decisions, evolve studio processes, and mentor production staff. Strong communication and people management skills are essential, along with experience producing all game phases, including live production for AAA titles. Budget management and resource allocation are also key aspects.
Must have:
  • 10+ years in gaming production, 5+ in leadership
  • Experience producing all major game phases (including live)
  • Strong leadership and mentorship skills
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Budget management and resource allocation expertise

Job Details

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…

Our Vancouver studio is looking for an Executive Producer to spearhead our next big AAA game project at Kabam. As an EP, you will build accountability, cohesiveness and support within your team so they can work effectively together and, in turn, enable each employee and the team to succeed. You will support and foster a growth mindset by engaging and encouraging others to continuously learn through training, mentorship, feedback, and coaching.

You are an experienced product leader with direct experience producing all major game phases (e.g. concept, pre-production, production), including successful live production for AAA games. You are a connector, linking senior leadership to employees through open communication to ensure all parties remain informed by appropriately cascading organization information and rolling up feedback from the team. You can stay at a high level and articulate a long-term strategy; at the same time, you can roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to support the team when the situation calls for it.

In this role, you can expect to...

    • Business Acumen & Leadership
    • Provide broad creative oversight of a brand that may include one or several contributing products.
    • Ensure product pillars are represented consistently across the product or a franchise of products within the same brand and various media (e.g., movies, soundtracks, etc.).
    • Anticipate business needs, stay current on industry trends and competitor activity, and align staffing and resource planning to both short- and long-term goals.
    • Collaborate closely with corporate partners to develop and execute multi-year brand strategies and influence cross-functional alignment at all levels.
    • Lead multiple functions or sections through a team of producers, define 3-year product goals, and drive vision for larger teams in line with the organization’s strategic direction.
    • Evaluate "Product Health" in multiple product phases (e.g. concept, pre-production, production, live production) and be accountable for overall strategy to maintain product health

    • Problem Solving & Decision Making
    • Guide teams through complex problem-solving and decision-making by setting strategic policies, defining key outcomes, and empowering autonomy.
    • Evaluate and sustain product health at every phase, aligning roadmap strategy with production realities and quality benchmarks.
    • Drive the evolution of studio production processes and methods, while mentoring and leading the entire Production staff.

    • Collaboration & Communication
    • Foster a respectful and inclusive environment, ensure open communication between leadership and staff, and provide timely, constructive feedback.
    • Act as the connector between senior leadership and the broader team, ensuring information flows both ways and decisions are clearly communicated.
    • Communicate in a clear, concise and professional manner with all levels of internal staff and external technology partners as applicable. 

    • People & Resource Management
    • Oversee internal and external development, balancing technical capabilities and limitations, while fostering excitement across the studio.
    • Effectively communicate timely feedback and feedforward to support the growth of your employees.
    • Champion the producer discipline by supporting hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, and performance reviews, and serving as a strong advocate for the end user.
    • Own budget management and resource allocation across all functions of the product, ensuring alignment with overall studio and business objectives.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

    • 10+ years in gaming or entertainment production, with 5+ years in a leadership role, in a mid or large sized organization
    • Bachelor’s Degree or greater; specialized designation in either project management, team leadership, production or other relevant discipline.
    • Strong understanding of technologies associated with game development and production (capabilities and limitations)
    • Direct experience producing all major game phases (e.g. concept, pre-production, production, live production). Experience producing live production
    • Transformative leadership style, seeks to grow and mentor their teams, not simply manage them
    • Experience of growing a healthy and successful delivery team in video games, software, technology, or a similar field. 
    • Strong written and oral communication skills paired with solid presentation and public speaking skills.
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!

About Kabam

Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.

Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.

Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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