Producer, Product

Description

What you will do:

• Lead and organize daily standups, playtesting sessions and other regularly scheduled meetings for your team.
• Assure feedback is logged, communicated and prioritized between product owners and development teams.
• Initiate, foster, maintain, and manage positive working relationships with internal and external organizations that are critical to both current and future development processes.
• Communicate goals and team principles to cultivate a stimulating and enjoyable work environment and culture.
• Identify process pain points and collaborate with product managers, discipline leads, and other producers to implement changes that enhance both quality and transparency in project deliverables.
• Ensure clear project definitions and criteria for completion are established.
• Ensure that project deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and meet required quality standards.
• Drive decision-making with the product managers and ensure communication and alignment with production and discipline leads.
• Collaborate with discipline partners to execute roadmap items and drive project execution at the team or pod level.
• Ensure Product goals and Design goals are clearly communicated and documented as part of the design and pre-production process. 
• Identify improvement opportunities and propose solutions that align with business objectives.
• Create, plan, and manage team capacity while tracking throughput and velocity. 
• Monitor and report progress weekly. Oversee risks and mitigation strategies while proactively working to eliminate blockers.

What we are looking for:

• 6+ years experience working in cross-functional development teams. At least 3 years experience as a Producer within the video game industry, mobile gaming and live-operations preferred. 
• Proven experience in production management, resource management, or a similar role within a game development project.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to collaborate and drive others towards making quick decisions.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Self-starter with out-of-the-box thinking. The ability to be flexible and pivot quickly is helpful.
• Strong analytical skills with keen attention to detail. Ability to assess individual and team skills to be a force multiplier for the team.
• Proven track record of delivering projects on time.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, particularly Agile and Scrum.
• Experience in capacity planning, cost estimation, and budgeting for projects.
• Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to motivate and guide cross-functional teams.
• Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro.
• Experience collaborating with design, engineering, and QA teams.

• Experience launching and maintaining live-operations for mobile games.
• Understanding of analytics, game economy, game design.
• Passionate about games, particularly mobile games.
• Agile/Scrum certification is a plus (e.g., Certified Scrum Master or Certified Scrum Product Owner) but a good understanding of concepts and utilizations is preferred.