Producer, Pokémon GO (short-term)

Niantic’s Live Game team seeks a Producer to produce and support short-term projects like GO Fest for Pokémon GO.

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 a short-term set of projects in Pokémon GO. Live Events are a true extension of Niantic products and highlight our core pillars of exploration, exercise, and real-world social. This role would support the execution of major events such as Pokémon GO Fest, Pokémon GO Tour, and Pokémon GO Safari Zones. 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

• Support Pokémon GO live events, key campaigns, and business objectives, in close partnership with game designers and marketing.
• Collaborate with cross-functional internal teams to execute real world live events reaching 5,000 to 300,000 players as well as global in-app events reaching millions.
• Oversee technical support and QA coordination to ensure live events are properly set up and thoroughly tested before going live. 
• Engage with the team to keep them apprised of current live event statuses as well as presenting data-driven results and recaps.
• Break down multifaceted issues into workable components to guide projects from creation to launch.
• Work with engineers, designers and artists to bring features to market.

Qualifications

• 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.).
• 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.

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

The hourly rate for this role is between $60.00/hr - $67.00/hr. This is a 6 month contract. 

This is a contractor position and the work should be performed based on service agreement and SOW. Niantic will not offer Contractor direct employment contract, salary, benefits, equities, or any compensation associated with employment.

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. 

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.

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