Senior Producer II

11 Months ago • 8 Years + • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

Senior Producer with 8+ years experience in game development, leading VR game production, managing stakeholders and team, strong communication skills.
Must have:
  • VR game development
  • Project management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Team leadership
Good to have:
  • Cross-platform development
  • Agile methodologies
  • Contingency planning
  • Publisher relationships
Perks:
  • Four-day work week
  • Remote/hybrid options

Job Details

Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.

In 2022, we announced that our studio is implementing a four-day work week as well as supporting in-studio, remote within Canada, and hybrid work arrangements as permanent options to our employees.

Do you love it when a plan comes together? Are you able to look at a problem and identify the steps that are necessary to understand and resolve that problem? Are you an expert at cross-platform game development through the entire production cycle? Do you love rallying and motivating a team towards shared goals to build a great game?

Blackbird Interactive is seeking a Senior Producer to lead the successful delivery of a large IP on VR devices. You will work with talented internal and external teams, help identify their needs, and move them through all project phases, including post-launch.

Responsibilities:

    • Establish and maintain the product roadmap
    • Manage overall project scope and quality, proactively assess and mitigate risk
    • Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies, and balance priorities
    • Define, drive and own milestones and other project deliverables
    • Partner with a technical and creative leadership team to ensure project vision, deliverables, and goals are met
    • Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve
    • Oversee  cross-discipline feature teams and maintain scope and capacity on a daily basis
    • Partner with project creative leadership to establish feature goals and deliver features on time and in budget
    • Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners
    • Establish and maintain regular communication channels with feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders.
    • Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members.   
    • Champion effective production processes identify opportunities to improve processes that will increase quality and efficiency, and help shape the evolution of production practices across the team.

Requirements:

    • Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects.
    • Proven track record of successful releases
    • Understands the unique challenges of VR game development and the broader VR market
    • Strong understanding of game development cycle from pre-production to release
    • Is a steady and practiced hand at steering a game’s production through the different stages of development
    • Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project.
    • Strategic thinker with high proficiency in various project management methodologies, who knows when to apply which methodologies to drive toward effective outcomes
    • Experience working directly with external and publisher stakeholders
    • Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.
    • Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines.
    • Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment.
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