Live Game Producer, Pokémon GO

1 Month ago • 2 Years + • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

The Live Game Producer at Niantic will work on current and upcoming Pokémon GO projects, focusing on live events like Pokémon GO City Safaris. Responsibilities include collaborating with a cross-functional team to drive live game strategy, supporting quarterly/annual goals aligned with events and business objectives, breaking down complex issues into manageable project plans, ensuring thorough QA testing, building relationships with brand partners, and reporting project performance to leadership. The ideal candidate is a Pokémon GO fan with experience producing large-scale events and managing multiple projects. Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills are essential, along with fluency in Japanese and English.
Must have:
  • 2+ years live service mobile game production experience
  • Experience growing live products/services
  • Excellent organization, communication, and leadership skills
  • Interest in AR and mobile games
  • Fluency in Japanese and English
  • Pokémon GO passion
Good to have:
  • Experience with Jira
  • Game development/platform experience
  • External partner experience
  • Localization experience

Job Details

Are you ready to drive a game that brings a positive impact to the world through the power of mobile and location technologies? We’re looking for a bold and innovative Producer to work on current and upcoming Live Game projects in Pokémon GO. The Live Game’s work highlights our core pillars of exploration, exercise, and real-world social. This role would support the execution of Live Game projects such as Pokémon GO City Safaris and more. The ideal candidate would be an authentic Pokémon GO fan who has experience producing large scale events and managing concurrent projects.

A combination of technical aptitude, Pokémon brand knowledge, and creative thinking are required to be successful in this role. Join the team and make a positive impact on millions of Trainers around the world.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a cross-functional team of experts to drive Pokémon GO’s Live Game strategy while keeping the game fresh and fun between major features.
  • Support quarterly/annual Pokémon GO Live Game aligned to OKRs, seasons, live events and business objectives, in close partnership with game designers, live events and marketing.
  • Break down multifaceted issues into workable components to guide our project plans from ideation through post-launch.
  • Partner with QA to ensure events are properly set up and thoroughly tested before going live. 
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with brand partners, navigating approval hurdles to successfully land a cohesive end product.
  • Engage with the team leadership to keep them apprised of project performance as well as presenting data-driven results and recaps.
  • Required in-office 2 days a week. 

Qualifications

  • 2+ years experience producing a live service mobile game.
  • You have collaborated on the growth of a live product or service.
  • You are able to demonstrate extraordinary organization, communication, detail-oriented, and leadership skills while working on cross-functional teams (design, engineering, production, etc.).
  • You have an interest or excitement about AR and mobile games.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications.
  • You love Pokémon GO.
  • Willingness to travel.
  • You are fluent in Japanese and English.

Plus If...

  • Experience with project management tools such as Jira.
  • You have worked on games or gaming platforms.
  • You have experience working with an external partner.
  • You have localization experience.

Join the Niantic team!

Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.

We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.

Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.

We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zürich. #LI-HYBRID

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About The Company

Niantic inspires people to explore the world, together. Our mission is to use emerging augmented reality (AR) technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. Originally formed at Google in 2011, we are now an independent company with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. We have offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Lawrence, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Hamburg, and Zurich. 

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