Responsibilities

 

• Oversee projects, or one or more complex cross-discipline feature teams

• Establish and maintain team and product roadmaps, evaluating and assessing capacity on a daily basis, proactively assessing and mitigating risk 

• Partner with Product Owners and Stakeholders to establish feature goals and deliver features on time

• Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies and balance priorities

• Partner with the technical and creative leadership teams to ensure project vision, deliverables and goals are met

• Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve

• Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners

• Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members.   

• Manage direct reports and support career growth

• Establish and maintain regular communication channels with other feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders

• Champion effective production processes, identify opportunities to improve processes that will increase quality and efficiency, and help shape the evolution of production practices across the team.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects

• Is a steady and practiced hand at steering a game’s production through the different stages of development

• Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project

• Strategic thinker with high proficiency in various project management methodologies, who knows when to apply which methodologies to drive toward effective outcomes

• Experience working directly and successfully with external and publisher stakeholders

• Demonstrable experience of short and long term scope and capacity management 

• Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.

• Experience in various project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile

• Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines

• Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment

• Excellent verbal and written skills.

Pluses

 

• University degree or equivalent professional experience.

• Experience in cross-platform development environments

• At least 2 shipped AAA game projects

• Experience with AzureDevOps, Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools

• Project management certifications.