Technical Producer

What is your role? 

As a Technical Producer for Eleventh Hour Games, you will be responsible for handling and organizing processes so that developers can do what they do best.

This position will require a candidate with deep understanding of ARPGs and gaming pipelines, specifically adapting to Last Epoch. This role is ideal for someone who excels in production pipeline ownership and who has strong communication and analytical skills, both written and verbal.

The role requires excellent communication skills, Project management skills, and team management skills as you will be working with a fully remote global team.

Qualifications

• Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex technical features and risks clearly
  
• Strong leadership and project management skills, with a demonstrated ability to drive technical projects to successful completion.
  
• Able to manage multiple, competing tasks and be self-directed to meet deadlines in a quickly evolving environment
  
• Positive attitude and ability to receive and provide objective and constructive feedback
  
• Previous experience working in a production role where you've managed cross-functional teams in the creation and delivery of complex projects.
• Deep understanding of game development, software development process, and project management practices.
  
• Demonstrated technical aptitude and an expert understanding of software development methodologies and best practices
• Professional working familiarity with git practices
• Self-starter, you approach challenges creatively and methodically, seeing them through to final resolution
  
• Ability to drive high velocity, high impact development cycles, balancing out short-term needs and long-term vision.

Pluses

Responsibilities 

• Act as a critical partner with external entities for outsourcing, managing relationships, and ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• Tool building and feature implementation, focusing on innovation and efficiency.
  
• Collaborate with senior cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of technical components and alignment with overall project vision.
  

• Own the pipeline, partner with discipline leads to determine time and people necessary to see projects through to completion. Build and maintain project plans, schedules, and roadmaps considering dependencies across multiple development teams to ensure successful releases.
• Communicate - Provide transparency on project status and risks to ensure they are properly informed of any impacts from upcoming releases. Communicate frequently with the rest of the production team and project leads on project status, risks, and opportunities.
• Identify all groups that may be affected by a goal, actively solicit their input and follow up by strong execution
  
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with internal development team, primarily partnering with the game director, discipline directors and leads
• Collaborate with managers concerning personnel issues and team member individual growth, such as meeting task expectations, actively tasking individuals toward determined growth goals
• Contribute to the development of new theories, methodologies and approaches in collaboration with creative partners - support the creative vision by utilizing curiosity, judgement and anticipating change to direct or redirect efforts as needed to achieve results
  
• Craft and maintain a comprehensive project plan, schedule, scope and resource forecast for multiple disciplines along a complex production pipeline
  • Break down large complex initiatives, features and challenges into manageable portions and actionable steps
    
• Other duties as assigned, including programming and pipeline work

Why Eleventh Hour Games?
EHG is a fast growing Indie Studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs. We value open communication, close-knit teamwork, and opportunity for ownership and growth! Our mission is to gather and empower the next generation of creators to forge epic games. Epic games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators. With our debut title Last Epoch, we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!

• Flexible fully remote working arrangements
• Team focused environment, including casual game nights
• 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 5 floating holidays at the start of each year (increased with company tenure)
• 90% paid health coverage premiums for U.S. based employees +dependents
• Dental, Vision for U.S. based employees + dependents
• 401K for U.S. based employees