Producer

3 Weeks ago • 5 Years + • Game Production • $68,040 PA - $141,480 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Lightspeed LA seeks a highly motivated Producer to collaborate with industry veterans on a next-generation AAA game. Responsibilities include managing feature roadmaps, tracking updates across departments, coordinating cross-departmental requests, ensuring on-time delivery, and contributing to process improvement. The role involves frequent communication, resource management, scope change impact assessment, and mentoring other team members. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in game production or equivalent project management experience, proficiency with industry standard tools like Jira and ShotGrid, and strong communication skills.
Must have:
  • 5+ years in game production
  • AAA game development experience
  • Jira/Shotgun proficiency
  • Cross-departmental coordination
  • Roadmap management
  • Strong communication
Good to have:
  • Project Management Professional Certification
  • Agile Project Management Certification
Perks:
  • Free daily lunch
  • Beverages, snacks, fresh fruit
  • 401k with employer match
  • Monthly cell phone reimbursement
  • Financial wellness sessions
  • Flexible spending account
  • Team building activities
  • Parental leave
  • Company-paid health insurance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Wellness training
  • Travel insurance
  • Preventive care

Job Details

About the Hiring Team

Welcome to Lightspeed LA, the first U.S.-based, AAA game development studio for Tencent Games. Lightspeed LA is focused on building open-world games that emphasize an ambitious living world, sophisticated player-driven gameplay, and mature, thoughtful storytelling. We are developing the first in a series of genre-defining titles.

Why join Lightspeed LA?

For us, it's not only about the exciting, new AAA open world game we're developing but also about team values and studio culture. We foster an open and transparent environment where everyone feels comfortable providing constructive feedback about all aspects of our games.

● We encourage the showing of work that's still in progress.
● We don't attack or question unfinished work, we celebrate its promise.
● We have a No Blame Culture where we blame the problem, not the person.

This is a safe place to fail, and we don't view failure as a negative, but as the natural result of pushing boundaries and trying new things. We create together. We face Challenges Together. We succeed together.

What the Role Entails

Lightspeed LA is seeking a talented and highly motivated Producer with a passion for games. In this role, you will be collaborating with game industry veterans to produce high-quality content for an ambitious next-generation AAA game. The ideal candidate is a skilled Producer who has the production and organizational experience to help coordinate and support production departments, manage cross-departmental requests, and deliver high-quality work.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Own and manage various feature roadmaps which includes scheduling and tracking updates across all feature groups from design requests, engineering support, and game integration.
  • Communicate frequently and effectively across all departments so visibility is clear, dependencies are tracked, and roadblocks are eliminated.
  • Collaborate with various departments to create, track, weigh resource availability, and negotiate requests to ensure all work is on track for delivery.
  • Ensure the impact of scope changes are understood and their ramifications are communicated.
  • Work closely with the Production teams and development leadership to drive prompt decision making.
  • Coordinate the day-to-day work of various teams, including conveying production and roadmap data to steer the production schedules and plans.
  • Contribute to developing and refining our production processes to increase studio efficiency and quality.
  • Champion long and short-term goals to further the studio’s overarching goals
  • Serve as a production mentor and provide leadership, information, and mentoring for others.
  • Other production duties as required.

Who We Look For

  • 5+ years in game production or an equivalent project management role
  • Experience developing multi-platform AAA game development
  • Well versed in using Jira, Shotgun/ShotGrid, or other industry standard tasking systems, including crafting basic JQL or other equivalent searches to build relevant dashboards/data sets
  • Ability to effectively work alongside a variety of different groups including designers, artists, engineers, and animators
  • Detailed oriented with strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Proven record of handling both day-to-day updates and longer-term strategy planning
  • Demonstrated proficiency with building, growing, or improving existing development pipelines
  • Capable of working independently and multitasking to cover various projects and pipelines as needed

Pluses

  • Passion for video games
  • Project Management Professional Certification
  • Agile Project Management Certification

Why Join Us?

Perks and Benefits:

Just some of the benefits of working with us here at our newly built studio in Irvine, CA.

● Free daily lunch
● Beverages, fresh fruit, and snacks
● 401k with employer match
● Monthly Cell phone bill reimbursement
● Financial wellness sessions
● Flexible spending account
● Team building and company outings
● Parental leave for new parents
● Company paid health insurance
● Life and disability insurance
● Employee assistance program
● Wellness training
● Travel insurance
● Preventive care

If the above sounds like you, or if you'd like to know more about the role, we'd love to hear from you to see if we might be a good fit for each other! Contact us for more information about this exciting opportunity.

Location State(s)

California

The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $68,040.0 to $141,480.0 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

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