Technical Producer - Star Trek Fleet Command
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Job Summary
Scopely is seeking a Technical Producer for the Star Trek™ Fleet Command team in Dublin or Barcelona, offering a hybrid/remote setup. This role is crucial for driving technical teams to enhance performance, stability, tools, and developer experience. The producer will translate complex technical goals into clear plans, partner with engineering leadership, align stakeholders, and ensure technical achievements are recognized. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, excellent communication, and a focus on impact and outcomes.
Must Have
- Drive technical teams to deliver measurable improvements in performance, stability, tools, and developer experience
- Maintain a clear view of progress, risks, and code health across technical initiatives
- Partner with engineering leadership to maintain and communicate technical roadmaps
- Act as scrum master or delivery owner for one or more technical teams
- Capture technical needs into structured backlogs
- Establish and drive processes to improve efficiency and communication
- Maintain project status and progress on story, theme, and initiative levels
- Integrate bug reports from the QA team into reports
- 3+ years of production experience
- 1+ years of technical-related project management experience
- Solid understanding of Agile and its standard practices
- Experience working with JIRA
- Excellent communication and people interaction skills
- Excellent ability to visualise data and convey information clearly and succinctly
- Solid Google Sheets skills including conditional highlights and formulas
- Ability to think in a structured and systematic way
- Have a service attitude
- Be a gamer and passionate about games
Good to Have
- Worked in large scale agile teams
- Programming experience
- Experience in using Unity for mobile development
- Good working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and architecture
- Good working knowledge of build automation and CI / CD pipelines
- Familiarity with AI
Job Description
A driven Technical Producer is sought to join the Star Trek™ Fleet Command team within the Midcore division on a hybrid/remote basis.
At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.
Star Trek Fleet Command is a standout success in the gaming industry. Launched in 2018, our in-house developed 4X Strategy MMO has continually evolved, earning its place as one of the top-grossing games on the market.
What You Will Do
The Technical Producer role is critical to the lasting success of our studio and Star Trek™ Fleet Command. You will drive our technical teams to deliver measurable improvements in performance, stability, tools and developer experience, turning complex technical goals into clear plans and follow through that deliver results for players and the studio. You will do this in close partnership with engineering leadership, aligning stakeholders, clearing blockers, improving communication and ensuring that technical achievements are recognised across the studio.
You will maintain a clear view of progress, risks and code health across technical initiatives and communicate it in a way that drives decisions and action. This role is for someone with a strong technical background, excellent communication and stakeholder skills, and a bias toward impact and outcomes, not just facilitation.
Reporting into the Lead Producer, your focus will be on technical topics and technical teams. You will partner with engineering leadership to maintain and communicate technical roadmaps, drive alignment and execution across our core technology teams, capture and structure work, and build reports that make the teams accomplishments and impact visible. We work on exciting products and games and you will have the opportunity to make a massive impact on product and development quality.
- Be heavily involved in roadmap planning, pre-production and production
- Act as scrum master or delivery owner for one or more technical teams, helping them run effective and predictable sprints
- Work with all tech and feature teams to understand their top technical challenges and infrastructure, core services and core client technology needs
- Partner with engineering leadership to maintain and communicate technical roadmaps, and drive alignment and execution across our core technology teams
- Drive the creation and maintenance of status reports on technical performance
- Capture technical needs from technical leadership and engineers into structured backlogs that enable discussion, prioritisation and clear status tracking
- Schedule and organise various meetings for capturing, prioritisation and breaking topics down into stories
- Establish and drive processes to improve efficiency and communication within the technical teams, and also to the rest of the studio
- Synchronise the data across various systems such as JIRA, Confluence and Google Sheets
- Maintain project status and progress on a story level as well as on theme and initiative levels
- Create and maintain reports that show various roadmaps, status & progress of technical initiatives, ETAs, key technical risks organised into topic clusters etc
- Integrate bug reports from the QA team into your reports to provide transparency on technical quality for various areas of the code base or the products
- Work closely with the game producers to assure a constant flow of technical improvements make their way into the sprint schedule of game feature teams
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of production experience
- 1+ years of technical-related project management experience
- Solid understanding of Agile and its standard practices
- Experience working with JIRA
- Naturally be a very structured and well organised person
- To have excellent discipline
- Excellent communication and people interaction skills
- Excellent ability to visualise data and convey information clearly and succinctly
- Enjoy working with people and teams
- Willing to spend a lot of time in JIRA and Google Sheets
- Solid Google Sheets skills incl. conditional highlights and formulas
- To think in a structured and systematic way
- Have a service attitude
- To be a gamer and passionate about games
Bonus Points
- Worked in large scale agile teams
- Programming experience
- Experience in using Unity for mobile development
- Good working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and architecture
- Good working knowledge of build automation and CI / CD pipelines
- Familiarity with AI
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About Us
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!," “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others.
Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience across multiple platforms--from mobile, web, PC and beyond.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.
Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia, EMEA, and North America, and is home to many internal game development teams, referred to as Scopely Studios, with additional game studio partners across four continents.
Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.
For more information on Scopely, visit: scopely.com
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