Responsibilities
- Partner with design and tech peers to ensure the impact and quality of established goals and deliverables for your group
- Become well versed in the features being built for the game which will allow you to run your sub-team and appropriately prioritize the team’s work in partnership with designers
- Project Manage your group
- Align with the Producer lead to iterate on and develop structure and workflows in Jira and other project management tools such as Flow
- Work with the team to help coordinate, focus, prioritize and track progress
- Ensure roadblocks for the team are removed
- Decompose long term efforts into incremental steps, planning and communicating road maps and risks to all stakeholders
- Drive effective process within your group
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams of designers, engineers and artists to establish, prioritize, plan and deliver on short term and long term goals for the project
- Drive alignment, resolve ambiguity, and clarify technical and design strategy to improve your impact
- Partner with a senior producer to build, enhance Jira workflow and tools, evaluate and add plugins that will help streamline either workflows or reports and dashboards
- Manage the structure and morale of your team in collaboration with your team leads
- Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve your team's objectives
- Work with dev team (internal) stakeholders and across partner teams (external) as needed to share vision, resolve dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of feature inputs and requirements
- Play the game to understand it and gauge the quality of completed deliverables against the intended quality targets
Requirements
- 3-4 years of game production experience
- Has completed at least 1 full game development cycle from pre-production to shipping
- Understands that great teams make great games – focuses on healthy team culture and understands how to strengthen team dynamics
- Organized, excellent communication skills, highly collaborative, open minded and has a tendency to be curious
- Outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills
- Passion for games and cares deeply about product quality – is not purely focused on just task management
- Excellent problem solver with a high degree of common sense
- Experience setting clear goals, planning and delivering features with cross functional teams and multiple competing requirements
- Excellent project management capabilities, documentation, tracking and visibility
- Attention to detail and completeness, ability to see around corners, anticipate issues
- Strong understanding of technical concepts – has the skill to work with engineers and understand technical implications of their work – the “why” behind what they are doing, not just the “what”
- Project management training in Scrum or other agile framework
- Very strong experience with Jira and Flow / Shotgrid – not just using an established framework, but also able to build workflows, work with and learn new plug-ins and assist with tooling within those tools
- Experience in project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
- Excellent at cultivating positive working relationships with internal partners and development teams
Nice to Have
- An engineering background would be an asset
- Love for sports is an asset
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity awards
- Eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage
- 14 paid holidays per calendar year
- Paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program
- Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year
- Paid parental and compassionate leave
- Wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support
- Family planning support through Maven
- Commuter benefits
- Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses
Work Arrangement
On-site — Vancouver, BC
Team
Structure: Producer will partner with Sr. Producers and work with multi-disciplinary teams of designers, engineers, and artists.
Additional Information
- Base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations
- Total compensation package may include bonus, equity awards, and eligibility to participate in 401(K) and Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Regular, full-time employees are eligible for benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, vacation, sick days, parental leave, wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and fitness reimbursements
- Equal opportunity employer committed to accommodations for individuals with disabilities
- No job interviews or offers conducted over third-party messaging apps
- No financial exchanges or requests for personal/financial information during recruitment
