Producer

10 Months ago • 2 Years + • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

Mobile game producer with 2+ years experience, project managing teams, strong communication and organization skills, proficiency with Jira and Confluence.
Must have:
  • Mobile Game Production
  • Project Management
  • Jira & Confluence
  • Team Management
Good to have:
  • Disney/Pixar/Lucasfilm IP
  • Agile & Waterfall
  • Live Mobile Games
  • Game Development
Perks:
  • Competitive Salaries
  • Professional Development

Job Details

As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent.  We’re searching for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. 

PERKS & BENEFITS 
Competitive salaries
Benefits
Professional Development Opportunities
Flexibility

We are looking for a motivated and skilled Producer to join our team. You’ll work with designers, artists, engineers, product managers, QA analysts, and other producers to develop live ops content like events, sales, and character power-ups for Disney Emoji Blitz. You’ll have the opportunity to work with world-class IPs from Disney, Pixar, and Lucasfilm and drive a cross-functional game team to maintain and grow our game! 

The Producer is responsible for driving the full end-to-end content production lifecycle of this casual, mobile, free-to-play title. They operate and manage a production plan that ensures internal and external game development resources effectively hit project goals. The candidate must keep teams motivated while ensuring an on-schedule delivery of a high-quality game. They should be able to easily telescope from the product vision at a macro level to the details of any given process or content element at a micro level. The Producer will coordinate live operations development with another internal development team based in Los Angeles. 

Responsibilities

    • Production Management and Communication
    • Help organize a cross-functional team of designers, artists, and engineers to drive the completion of product goals, and facilitate communications
    • Proactively drive production workflows, prioritize and track sprint goals and ensure on-schedule deliveries
    • Manage product deliverables, internal and external communication
    • Own the development pipeline of game assets and character abilities at a high level and at the day-to-day level in Jira
    • Be able to manage team stress and pressure and redirect to a positive outcome and working environment
    • Communicate project status effectively with other key stakeholders like marketing, customer service, and production and studio leadership based in Los Angeles
    • Ensure timely delivery of game assets for franchise partners review and approval

    • Leadership
    • Constantly strive to improve processes, teams, and the final game product even in the face of adversity and challenges
    • Organize, support, and optimize the team; knocking down obstacles before the team encounters them
    • Consistently challenge the status quo and offer solutions for improvements
    • Lead by example. Set the tone for the team to ensure high productivity and morale: engagement, enthusiasm, professionalism, and a strong work ethic
    • Build trust with relevant teams and stakeholders and obtain necessary approvals, as needed

    • Product & Quality
    • Work closely with QA to ensure high-quality, bug-free, build submissions

Qualifications

    • Excellent English communication skills
    • 2+ years of experience in a producer, project manager, or scrum master role, ideally within the games industry, orchestrating work for internal and external game teams
    • At least one mobile game shipped, or one live mobile game maintained for 1+ year
    • Experience project managing teams of 25+ employees
    • Ability to balance project demands with creative essentials. You demand quality; creativity and fun while managing project resources and timelines
    • Solid project management foundation across various methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) and deep understanding of how games get made
    • Strong organizational skills and passion for managing details
    • Excellent time management skills -- understanding, communicating, and acting on what’s critical for right now versus what’s important but can wait until tomorrow
    • Embrace change and uncertainty
    • Pragmatic: making games is complex, able to prioritize and focus when everything is a priorityHigh proficiency with Atlassian suite tools such as Jira and Confluence
    • Proficiency with additional development tools: MS Office, G-Suite, etc.  
    • Excellent oral and written communication and collaboration skills.
    • Able to flex your style depending on circumstance.
    • Ability to take direction and incorporate feedback
    • Problem solver, results-oriented, self-motivated, and disciplined
    • Preferred: Experience with or affinity for Disney/Pixar/Lucasfilm IP
CHECK OUT LIFE AS A JAM CITIZEN:

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION
We believe in creating games that unite people across the world and that showcase our commitment to providing an environment that is both inclusive and diverse for our players and employees. We strive to create a workforce that is reflective of our global player community as we know that we are stronger and better when we play together. To help promote an inclusive culture, we celebrate the visible and invisible diversity of our Jam Citizens through initiatives including Employee Resource Groups, cultural events, trainings, speaker series, and more. 

Jam City is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, marital, or domestic partnerships status, disability (in terms of law 19.691), genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws. Our management is committed to following this policy with respect to any and all hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruiting, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

ABOUT JAM CITY
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.

Led by CEO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.

The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.

Jam City has ten studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Montevideo, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.

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