Senior Producer

Title: Senior Producer

Location: Remote

The Position

PTW is seeking an experienced and dynamic Senior Producer to join our forward-thinking team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring the successful delivery of our cutting-edge projects. As a Senior Producer, you will lead the development process from conception to completion, overseeing project timelines, coordinating resources, and ensuring the highest quality standards are met.

Your role will involve collaboration with various teams, including design, development, and marketing, to synchronize efforts and maintain project momentum. You will be an advocate for the project, managing relationships with stakeholders, and communicating progress effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Craft comprehensive project schedules that align with the envisioned features, timelines, and available resources of the product. These schedules should reflect a well-structured and efficient strategy for managing all facets of game production, including design, art, programming, and more.
• Identify and monitor key project milestones.
• Collaborate with the Directors of Art, Programming, and Design to allocate team resources effectively and oversee the daily operations of all assigned members.
• Assess the feasibility of game and technical design documents against the constraints of available time and resources.
• Ensure smooth communication, both technical and non-technical, among team members and departments.
• Keep open lines of communication with external departments (such as Marketing, Legal, Creative Services, and company executives) to keep them updated on the project's progress.
• Oversee project budgets, while proactively identifying and resolving any potential conflicts that may arise between game features, resources/budget, and timelines.
• Clarify, enhance, and share the product vision, while contributing insights for the conceptual design of games.
• Employ a blend of traditional and innovative project management strategies to ensure timely delivery, exceptional quality, optimal resource utilization, and strong team morale.
• Guide and mentor Assistant and Associate Producers to hone their skills and maximize their contributions.
• Address daily personnel concerns for assigned team members, including performance evaluations and problem resolution, while employing standard conflict resolution techniques as necessary.
• Examine testing documentation and oversee the quality assurance process.
• Engage in post-mortem review sessions to highlight successes and challenges in each project, utilizing insights gained to refine processes.
• Participate in product demonstrations and press engagements as required.
• Communicate with licensors when needed and coordinate with the legal department on licensing matters.

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of production/project management experience or an equivalent combination of education and practical work experience.
• Must have experience in internal production/project management on at least 4 published game products from inception to delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management training from a recognized educational or certification program is preferred.
• Membership in PMI or similar professional project management association is preferred.
• Experience as a game programmer, artist or designer is preferred.

What we offer:

• You will be working for the pre-eminent global provider of specialist services to the games industry and provided with full training and the opportunity to work on some of the biggest game clients, titles, projects, and tech in the world.
• Attractive remuneration, holidays, regular team competitions with great prizes. Our environments thrive with collaborative team-work with people from all around the world, different nationalities, and languages.
• A supportive community inclusive of LGBTQ+, and any age, ethnicity, religion, or disability. We care about the wellbeing of our employees and have a dedicated employee wellbeing program. We empower our people and offer regular progression opportunities to ensure our employees flourish.
• Learn as you work and be part of something real that changes the face of gaming - forever.

About us:

PTW is a boutique-with-scale games services company with over 40 studios in 12 countries worldwide. Our range of services includes art and audio production, game development, quality assurance, player support, community management, localization, localization QA, voice production, and data collection.

PTW Bucharest opened its doors in 2016 and has grown from providing Player Support to a range of mobile and AAA games publishers to also offering QA and Localization QA services.

We’re part of a global team of passionate, hard-working, ambitious gamers, whose goal is always to make every gamer’s experience as perfect as possible. For over 30 years, PTW has been providing industry-leading services to every part of the globe. From our humble beginnings as a single office in Japan in 1994, we’ve become a global force with offices across North America, Europe, India, and Asia. The PTW family of brands includes SIDE, Gostpunch Games and OR Esports. For more information, visit www.ptw.com.

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