Senior Producer, External Projects
Job Summary
Job Description
Rovio Entertainment seeks a Senior Producer, External Projects for its Barcelona studio. This role involves overseeing external game production for multiple titles, liaising with third-party partners and internal teams (User Research, UA, BI, QA, Brand, Transmedia). Responsibilities include tracking schedules, identifying risks, managing project planning, ensuring quality and adherence to budget/deadlines, fostering relationships with external teams, and facilitating smooth delivery of live ops activities and new feature launches. The ideal candidate possesses strong game production scheduling knowledge, experience managing F2P mobile game IPs, and excellent communication skills.
Must have:
- Strong game production scheduling knowledge
- Experience managing external development teams
- Experience handling F2P mobile game IPs
- Excellent time management and problem-solving skills
- Effective communication and team collaboration skills
Good to have:
- Solid network of external partners
- Experience in Casual/Puzzle genre
- Understanding of mobile gaming trends
8 skills required
Job Details
Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer? Click here.
At Rovio you will get to work with multiple groundbreaking IP’s including one of the most famous game IP’s in the world: Angry Birds! We craft joy with player-focused gaming experiences that last for decades. In order to do that, we know that people need to bring their own joy to what we do. Today, we are a proud team of 500+ caring and talented professionals representing over 50 different nations.
We are looking for a Senior Producer, External Projects to join our Barcelona Studio. This exciting new role will let you take our external game titles to the next level. As a Senior Producer you will be responsible for liaising 3rd party partners, working in tandem with in-house teams such as Rovians from User Research, UA, BI, Beacon, QA, Brand and Transmedia. You’ll be ensuring that games stay on track in terms of quality, budget and deadlines with the support of craft leads and studio leadership. You’ll be reviewing milestones together with our in-house Flightpath team.
You are a passionate game maker who can make sure the team lives its vision and is set up for success across multiple aspects.
You will have impact and fun at work by:
- Liaising with internal and external development teams to oversee external game production, including quality and KPI follow-ups, providing feedback, brand approvals, and facilitating milestone approvals
- Tracking schedules, identifying risks, troubleshooting communication and dependency issues, and working with the teams on contingency plans
- Being responsible for demonstrations and presentations of the projects, ensuring they seamlessly reach their milestone goals
- Maintaining and enhancing creative relationships with external teams; possibly finding potential partners to work with, especially in the Casual / Puzzle genre
- Implementing and coordinating the common activities between internal Rovio teams and external partners to secure smooth delivery, well coordinated liveops activities or new feature launches
- Managing project planning, coordinating with local game teams to create and maintain schedules and staffing plans
- Supporting stakeholder deliverable creation (HQ, platform holders, etc.) with local teams as needed
- Conducting regular check-ins with key stakeholders
- Constantly helping teams to improve their ways of working, team interactions and culture
Experience and skills we are looking for:
- Strong knowledge of game production scheduling as well as schedule management
- Solid networks and contacts with external partners
- Experience handling IPs for F2P mobile games ensuring brand guidelines are strictly followed and allowing best utilisation of IPs and its existing audience
- Experience working with and coordinating external development teams
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to prioritise, assess risks, and solve problems
- Strong understanding of the mobile video game landscape, including current gaming trends and competitive benchmarks
- Track record of managing all phases of production of a mobile F2P title, from prototyping to soft launch and LiveOps operations
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to foster team collaboration and ensure the team continuously moves toward the same goal; and communicate clearly with external stakeholders
- Solid business mindset and an ability to handle unexpected situations
We welcome applicants to use the name they want to be addressed by in the application form, regardless of whether it is their legal name.
At Rovio, we are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or conditions in our working environment and job application procedures. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. If you have any questions before applying, please write to us at recruitment@rovio.com.
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