Production Director

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

The Production Director will be a key member of this Stockholm-based game development studio, responsible for executing game roadmaps and goals. This role involves leading a cross-functional team, improving processes, facilitating daily work and communication, and ensuring team productivity. Responsibilities include establishing and executing product roadmaps, managing processes, ensuring team productivity, providing transparent project status updates to stakeholders, handling publisher communication, resource planning and hiring, and managing the project budget. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in Producer/Project Manager roles, ideally within the games industry, and a strong understanding of Agile development methods. Proven skills in project management, including budget, schedule, resource, and risk management are essential. Experience shipping customer-facing products, excellent communication skills, and an organized and detail-oriented personality are also required.
Must have:
  • Extensive Producer/PM experience
  • Agile development expertise
  • Project management skills
  • F2P/AAA game knowledge
  • Excellent communication
Perks:
  • Competitive salary & bonuses
  • Passionate colleagues
  • Inclusive work environment
  • State-of-the-art office in Stockholm
  • Terrace with baristas & food
  • Game room

Job Details

About the Studio

Innovation, state-of-the-art tech, and endless talent lie at the heart of this Swedish game development studio. Based in Stockholm and comprised of industry veterans previously working on the Battlefield series, this company is currently working on a recently released sci-fi bloodsport, squad-based, free-to-play multiplayer shooter.

If you’re looking for a challenge that tests your technical and artistic skills or just want to work with one of the leading developers in Sweden, this is the right place to do so!

Responsibilities and Requirements

As a Production Director at this studio, you will be a dedicated game maker, executing game roadmaps and goals. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team where you will create and improve structure and processes and facilitate the day-to-day work and communications to ensure productivity.

You are passionate about removing obstacles, solving problems and ensuring things get done! You know that experimenting is a gamble, but you have a knack for choosing the smartest route - and you know when it’s time to declare success or failure. You make sure to balance meaningful innovation with executing best practices.

  • Establish and execute the product roadmap and goals
  • Process: Facilitate day-to-day work, establish and improve all working processes
  • Ensure team productivity and focus
  • Providing transparency on project status and risks to stakeholders
  • Publisher communications
  • Resource plans and hiring
  • Project budget

About You

  • Extensive experience from Producer/Project Manager roles and some of that experience in the games industry
  • Extensive experience with Agile development methods in a cross-functional team environment, preferably from a variation of settings
  • Project management skills including budget, schedule, resource planning and risk management
  • Experience in successfully completing and shipping customer-facing products
  • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
  • An organised, detail oriented and self-motivated personality
  • A pragmatic mindset and ability to motivate individuals and teams
  • F2P and/or AAA games knowledge

Benefits and Perks

  • Competitive salaries and bonuses
  • Passionate colleagues to share knowledge with
  • An inclusive, diverse work environment
  • A state-of-the-art office in the very heart of Stockholm, with incredible vistas, a terrace with baristas and food service, and a game room for you and your colleagues to enjoy

About Us

At haptic™, we know that people-first recruitment is fundamental to our success. We work closely with talented candidates and innovative studios to offer the best opportunities and build the most promising teams.

Operating on the belief that a studio’s strength comes from the team they build to bring their ideas to life, we are committed to assembling the most talented, diverse game makers.

As part of this pledge, whenever you apply for a job with us, one of our specialist recruiters will support you through each stage. From introductions and interviews to accepting an offer and submitting your resignation, we’re always here to help.

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About The Company

Created in 2018, Haptic was established as a gaming recruitment agency that wanted to do things differently.

But, what does that actually mean?

Each consultant that works at Haptic knows that a studio is not only about their games,
but their culture, passion, and ideas.

This enables us to provide a specialist service that is rooted in care, knowledge, and trust. That makes us pretty great at what we do!

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