Lead Producer - Electric Square, Malta

At Electric Square, we understand that the worlds we build are pivotal to the success of our games and the enjoyment of our players. With our diverse portfolio, which includes acclaimed titles like 'Diablo IV', 'Need For Speed Unbound', 'Battlefield 2042', 'Lords of the Fallen', and several other exciting AAA console games currently in progress (and even more surprises on the horizon!), we strive to deliver unforgettable gaming experiences.

Working in collaboration with four innovative studios, our team of 250+ talented individuals, accompanied by our beloved studio dogs, are dedicated to creating world-class projects. We foster a unique studio culture that empowers and inspires our teams, ensuring that everyone feels motivated to bring their best ideas to life.

We can offer you an award-winning working environment. At Electric Square, we don't just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Electric Square is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We’re looking for an experienced and talented Lead Producer to join our studio working on an exciting project. The Lead Producer is responsible for leading a multi-discipline team, managing internal and external stakeholders, providing leadership, driving the operational needs and ensuring the game meets quality expectations.

A Lead Producer at Electric Square Malta will:

• Manage the relationship with the client, ensuring open and honest collaboration.
• Establish and refine development processes and set quality benchmarks.
• Uphold the vision for the project and ensure this vision is communicated to the development team and client.
• Drive product operational goals and facilitate communication, organisation, process, and accountability.
• Drive product planning, schedules, and overall prioritisation and delivery framework.
• Work with QA to enable high-quality regular product delivery.
• Identify and communicate any roadblocks and bottlenecks that may prevent the team from achieving their goals.
• Motivate and support the team to ensure project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
• Provide regular project status reporting on deliveries, identifying any potential risks with proposed solutions, and communicate this clearly on a routine basis to team and project stakeholders (internal and external).
• Work with team leaders and discipline leads to evaluate directional changes analyse the costs/benefits and impact on product update schedules.
• Be a champion for player experience and quality.

Keywords Studios is dedicated to following a well-established Equal Opportunities Policy. We endeavor to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees.

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• 5+ years’ experience in a lead or senior production role.
• Experience with R&D / leading internal tech teams
• Proven Production experience on multiple shipped products for Console platforms, in a lead or senior producer role.
• Demonstrated ability to orchestrate work across multiple disciplines and partner groups.
• Process driven, with flexibility to adapt as the needs of the team arises.
• Ability to familiarise and adapt quickly to a fast-paced development cycle.
• Demonstrate effective problem solving.
• Experience tracking complex projects and providing insight and influence into how to deliver more effectively and mitigate risks.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and decision-making skills.
• Experience with Agile/Waterfall/SCRUM development methodologies
• An understanding of SAFe is nice to have.
• Drive to keep learning and inspiring.
• Passion for games is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute delivery plan reliability and with quality expected.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Calm and deliberate within a demanding environment. Able to identify/assess risks and strategies to mitigate and escalate as necessary.

If you are wondering if you should apply or not, we sincerely hope that you do! You may wish to read that sentence again. Good luck!

When you join Electric Square, you can expect to enjoy a unique culture. Whether its participating and relaxing with one of our wellness benefits or discussing the latest games over studio lunch. The Studio knows that it’s the best people that make the best games and this is what Electric Square invests in. Below you will find all the benefits and perks you can enjoy as an Electric Square team member.

Base Package

• Holidays - 28 days annual leave which includes the 3/4 day studio closure over the Christmas period plus all Malta bank holidays.
• Generous Annual Performance Bonus

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance - provided by Sana
• Private Dental Insurance - provided by Sana
• Health and Well-being Allowance – €450 per year to spend on your choice of a range of healthy activities, ranging from going to the gym, rock climbing, yoga, arts and crafts or a lovely massage. It's on us!

Perks

• Free Awesome Swag – Sleek Electric Square T-shirts and merch, with the iconic Electra symbol emblazoned on the front. New ranges out every season!
• Financial Wellbeing Platform – Access to a fantastic financial wellbeing platform which is free to all Electric Square Employees.
• WithU Fitness App - A remarkable fitness app that revolves around audio guidance, which is absolutely free for all Electric Square employees
• Exclusive anniversary presents – After your third & fifth year as an Electron.
• Purpose built Studio overlooking St Julians Bay – Our Malta studio is quite literally a stone’s throw away from the famous St Julians Bay! The brand-new building we are situated in is completely purpose built for our needs and comfort.

Role Information: EN

Studio: Electric Square

Location: Europe, Malta

Service: Game Development

Employment Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Onsite