Senior Producer

If you’re looking to make the best co-op games in the world, you’ve come to the right place. We're proud to have some of the best game makers and collaborators in the industry working with us. What's more, we're a fun bunch of game developers, who love to indulge in our passion for video games together. Our games are not for everyone. Are they for you?

We are now looking for a Senior Producer

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Producer to head up one of our Game Areas for Helldivers 2. Working closely with the Area Director, you are responsible for the delivery and execution from teams in your Area, ensuring we achieve quality production through cohesive rituals and sustainable methods while staying true to the overall product vision & goals.

Through effective communication and proactive planning, you work with project stakeholders to provide clarity, identify and resolve blockers & dependencies and approach change and ambiguity with curiosity and compassion. You always have a Plan B (and probably a plan C) up your sleeve. You are skillful at navigating needs from various directions, knowing when to dig into details, as well as keeping your eyes on the big picture.

You are a great collaborator, team builder and champion, as well as being structured, thorough and resourceful. You don’t shy away from hard and uncomfortable decisions, striving to find the right balance between creative freedom and production constraints; keeping a steady progress while not compromising on quality.

The Producer works collaboratively with Directors and Team Owners and acts as a ‘Master of Ceremonies’ - you keep tabs on production rituals to make sure we have clear processes, all the way from pre-production and planning through to development, hardening and release.

You are responsible for managing risks and driving decisions to ensure your teams stay unblocked, have clarity on priorities and can rely on the plans provided.

Working closely with your Team Owners, you support them in translating direction briefs into workable specs, take the team through planning and estimation rituals, make sure we maintain a solid JIRA hygiene, facilitate retros and strive to achieve a high and reliable release accuracy.

As a Senior Producer you are expected to support and mentor more junior producers, contribute to continuous improvement of our production standards and practical application of our methods and frameworks across development areas.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with project leadership on risk management, problem solving, redundancy planning and issue tracking
• Handle planning and execution for your game teams and provide support to achieve results in sustainable ways, on time and within budget
• Champion production best practices, ensuring centralized process integrity as well as tactical adaptations to optimize team effectiveness
• Work closely with Team Owners to make sure each team have efficient rituals to produce their work & build strong team cohesion (stand-ups, retros, task breakdowns & estimations, capacity & velocity planning, dependency mapping, playtesting, team building events and so on)
• Maintain a prioritized feature backlog for each team, balancing creativity and innovation with technical limitations, player sentiment and team capabilities
• Understand team velocity, capacity and costs of pipelines, content, features and systems - guiding both future work plans from concept, prototype & pre-production all the way to live service maintenance, bug fixing & quality of life improvements
• Promote a high degree of ownership in each team, ensuring leveraged ways of working and accountability for what the team builds and ships to our players
• Provide excellent communication and increase transparency and visibility for all partners, project leadership, stakeholders and the team

We believe you have:

• Extensive and relevant production experience on midsize game teams, in one or more game areas
• Proven history of managing complex product development, overseeing a project or area of 30+ developers across multiple teams (internal and external)
• A strong understanding of the game development lifecycle and production best practices in a live environment
• Shipped titles similar to Helldivers 2, with focus on systematic and procedural approach to gameplay
• Managed internal and external stakeholders where expectations are high and processes are still evolving
• Experience in working through others to achieve results

##### How to apply

If you think that this position matches your background and skills, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV in English as soon as possible.

We interview candidates continuously and hire when we find a good fit.

##### Practical Information

Scope: Full-time, 40 hours per week with initial 6 month probation period.

Location: Office first, hybrid solution possible. You need to be eligible to work in Sweden.

We are a pet friendly office! You can expect to find dogs and occasionally some cats around.

##### What we offer

Arrowhead Game Studios is a growing team of about 100+ people, best known for our co-op titles. Despite our size, we remain a friendly and down to earth bunch, who love to indulge in our passion for video games together.

Currently located in a newly built, custom-tailored offices on the Hammarby Kaj waterfront, we enjoy everything Stockholm has to offer. A thriving game dev scene, along with all types of activities are immediately available on our doorstep.

Our talented developers are crucial to our success, therefore we put a lot of emphasis in creating and maintaining a prosperous culture. We’re committed to open and transparent communication. Your ideas are welcomed, valued, appreciated - the ceiling for creative discussions is high.

We also have numerous work benefits for all our employees. You can read about them here!

Arrowhead's Perks & Benefits

• ### Paid Vacation

Working at Arrowhead entitles you to 30 days of paid vacation each year.

• ### Massages at Work

Professional massage sessions are available at the office every other week

• ### Pet Friendly

At Arrowhead we love pets. If your pet is friendly, well behaved and housetrained, we'd love to see them around the studio from time to time.