Associate Producer
Development Manager
Executive Producer
Producer
Producer
Producer
Producer
Product Manager
Product Manager
Product Manager
Product Manager (Producer)
Producer RODUCER (JGCA4049) Santa Monica, CA
Senior Producer
Senior/Exec Producer
Senior Project Manager (Action RPG Title for XBox360/PS3/PC)
SR. Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
Associate Producer
QA manager
Producer
Director Of Production
Technical Director
Executive Producer
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (TCOV4062) - Frankfurt, Germany
Job Responsibilities
- Support the creative vision for a franchise or multiple projects along with the appropriate producers, directors and leads
- Supervise the project's creative development to maintain its focus areas and vision of the game
- Create new game concepts that align with the vision and business objectives
Oversee creation of detailed game requirements and design documents
- Provide leadership and direction to Producers and act as a mentor
- Design, coordinate and oversee the evaluation of competitive products and the inspiration this process provides
- Upon request from the company, attend trade shows and press events to represent the products and / or company
- Work with studio executives and department leads for continual process improvement
- Actively participate in team working on project by making recommendations on how to improve product quality as well as group productivity
- Provide input to department project status meetings
- Coordinate with other studio groups including art and production to achieve project objectives
- Ability to communicate in English; established interpersonal and organizational skills and must work well in a team oriented environment
- Takes initiative and is willing to expand own horizon
- Show a strong passion for making the highest quality state of the art games
- Ability to contribute innovative and original ideas towards all aspects of game production and development
- Willing to accept and provide direction, work well under pressure, and handle multiple tasks
- Complete all tasks in a timely manner and to a consistent high quality standard
- Remains focused, motivated and effective on all tasks through completion
- Good communication and writing skills and create documentation where required
- Directly responsible for adhering to all company policies and procedures
- Perform any other duties as assigned by Executive Management with accountability and responsibility defined prior to the commencement of these duties
- Safeguard the company's assets including source code, art work, tools, technical know-how
- Demonstrates a desire to learn and grow professionally
- Reports to Executive Management
Requirements
- Previous experience in a producer role
- Has shipped multiple AAA titles
- Possess a strong background in game design
- Proven ability to produce high quality, top selling games
- Ability to support and drive the creative vision across multiple projects
- Creation of detailed product requirements and design documents
Pluses
- Familiar with Agile Development
- Exceptional analytical and creative problem solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; polished professional; communicates with impact
- Able to handle multiple and sometimes competing priorities
- Is flexible and agile - ability to adapt quickly and be effective in new situations
- Possesses passion, energy, enthusiasm to drive results; action oriented
- Views challenges as opportunities; tenacious and focused. Role model a positive attitude and a strong, committed work ethic
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR (TCOV4061) - Frankfurt, Germany
Looking for an experienced Technical Director to work closely with internal game teams and our Research and Development department. This position requires strategic planning of technology roll-outs, programming, and oversight of platform leads, coordination with other department heads as well as external partners.
Job Responsibilities
- Coordinate the integration of cross platform toolsets and engine code
- Actively communicate with R&D and game teams
- Oversee and assist with console specific programming and integration tasks on the game team side
- Represent game team requests and champion solutions to R&D
- Show a strong passion for making the highest quality state of the art games
- Contribute innovative and original ideas towards all aspects of game production and development
- Work with department leads for continual process improvement
- Directly responsible for adhering to all company policies and procedures
- Safeguard company assets including source code, art work, tools, game design information and technical know how
- Takes initiative and is willing to expand own horizon
- Additional tasks in the area of a Technical Director
- Reports to Executive Management
Requirements
- Technical Director on a minimum of 3 shipped titles on a major platform
- 5+ years of gaming industry experience
- Demonstrated ability to be proactive and self motivated, work without direct supervision, and present the work of the team and the project in a professional manner
- Demonstrated ability to integrate the creative and technical design processes while ensuring that high production values are never compromised
- Adopt existing development processes and look for improvements
- Balance impacts of deadlines and resources against quality requirements of a title and quality of life for staff
- Passion for making games
Excellent understanding of
- Strong technical architecture skills
- Solid understanding of C++ in a games development environment
- Deep experience with current Console and PC development processes
- State-of-the-art game development tools and methods
- Traditional development models as well as Agile, i.e. SCRUM
- Strategic allocation of resources for maximum effect
- Potential impact of production-phase change requests on quality, stability, and schedule
- Design process / methodology and how it is integrated into game production
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION (TCOV4060) - Frankfurt, Germany
Primary Responsibilities
- Responsible for the entire development unit of a Production or franchise group
- Working with the Executive Producer, Producers and Development Directors, prepares plans and implements products to agreed schedules and budgets
- Provides day-to-day supervision of direct reports within the development teams, which includes training and coaching staff for improved performance, evaluating performance, recommending promotions, and administering the Salary Program and approves with Executive Producer
- Working with the Executive Producer, Producers, and Development Directors; anticipates and prepares for future needs in the development area which may involve preparation of new business plans
- Working with the Development Directors to make independent decisions on work methods to be used within his/her unit, while following established standards and procedures of the company
- Maintains a close liaison with other managers to implement products and solve staff problems in various projects
- Working with the Executive Producer, Producers and with DDs, prepares, maintains and implements the departmental budget
- Working with the Executive Producer and Producer, assists in the evaluation and management of external development organizations
- Review, evaluate and administer contracts
- Directly responsible for adhering to and administering all company policies and procedures
- On occasion, performs any other duties as required by manager, with accountability and responsibility defined prior to the commencement of these duties
Qualifications
- Must have University degree or equivalent work experience
- Must have 5+ years as a Software Project Manager
- Must have 2+ years general management of development organization
- Must have Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project, or equivalent experience
- Experience in games credits an asset
- Extensive experience in budget creation and maintenance
- Extensive experience with resource management and skills development
- Extensive experience working with senior corporate management
- Extensive experience in software project management
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
- Strong people, team building, decisive, and empathic skills
- Innovative, flexible, versatile and self motivated
- Ability to work effectively with all groups within the organization in order to achieve specific and common goals
- Good oral and written communication and listening skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Must have good problem solving skills
- Must have the ability to earn respect, present arguments, influence outcomes, and assess risks
- Strong inspirational creative leader
PRODUCER (TCOV4059) - Frankfurt, Germany
Looking for an experienced Producer to support, enhance and bring to life the vision of multiple projects and franchises. This is a studio level leadership position. The successful candidate should understand all areas of design and production as it relates to AAA titles on Next-Gen platforms. The role of the Producer is to ensure high quality in the overall product or franchise, covering all areas of the discipline: game play, art, audio and design.
Job Responsibilities
- Manage and support the creative vision for a franchise or multiple projects along with the appropriate directors and leads
- Interfaces with the Executive Producer, Development Director and Lead Designer
- Supervises the projects creative development to maintain its focus areas and vision of the game
- Monitor and communicate the current status of the project to the Executive Producer
- Create new game concepts that align with the vision and business objectives
- Oversee creation of detailed game requirements and design documents
- Committed and avid in all areas of creative development and providing hands on assistance if required
- Coordinate, review and evaluate gameplay implementations
- High level of accessibility and availability for the development team
- Mentor individuals from the development team, solve people-problem and apply motivation practices
- Evaluate, negotiate and work with third party contractors or partners and evaluate deliverables
- Coordinate, Evaluate and react to feedback from the stakeholders and focus tests and oversee focus test
- Interview and evaluate job candidates
- Design, coordinate and oversee the evaluation of competitive products and the inspiration this process provides
- Maintain team morale, efficiency, and productivity during project
- Upon request from the company, attend trade shows and press events to represent the products and/or company
- Additional tasks in the area of a Producer
- Work with studio executives and department leads for continual process improvement
- Actively participate in team working on project by making recommendations on how to improve product quality as well as group productivity
- Provide input to department project status meetings
- Coordinate with other studio groups including art and production to achieve project objectives
- Ability to communicate in English. Established interpersonal and organizational skills. Must work well in a team oriented environment
- Takes initiative and is willing to expand own horizon
- Show a strong passion for making the highest quality state of the art games
- Ability to contribute innovative and original ideas towards all aspects of game production and development
- Willing to accept and provide direction, work well under pressure, and handle multiple tasks
- Complete all tasks in a timely manner and to a consistent high quality standard
- Remains focused, motivated and effective on all tasks through completion
- Good communication and writing skills and create documentation where required
- Directly responsible for adhering to all company policies and procedures
- Perform any other duties as assigned by Executive Management with accountability and responsibility defined prior to the commencement of these duties
- Safeguard the company's assets including source code, art work, tools, technical know-how
- Demonstrates a desire to learn and grow professionally
- Reports to Executive Management
Requirements
- Previous experience in a producer role
- Multiple shipped titles with at least one AAA title
- Is a gameplay analyst, technical and focused
- Familiar with Production Tools such as: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, MS Project, Alien Brain
- Has a personality that is encouraging, inspiring and calming
- Possess a strong background in game design
- Proven ability to produce high quality, top selling games
- Ability to drive creative vision for entire team
- Creation of detailed product requirements and design documents
Pluses
- Has a Master in a related field or comes from high-end technical development / management
- Familiar with Agile Development
- Exceptional analytical and creative problem solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; polished professional; communicates with impact
- Able to handle multiple and sometimes competing priorities
- Is flexible and agile - ability to adapt quickly and be effective in new situations
- Possesses passion, energy, enthusiasm to drive results; action oriented
- Views challenges as opportunities; tenacious and focused. Role model a positive attitude and a strong, committed work ethic
QA MANAGER (TCOV4058) - Frankfurt, Germany
Requirements
- 4+ years experience in the games industry
- Shipped at least 3 high-profile titles on multiple platforms
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
- Experience with multiplatform testing procedures
- Experience with console certification procedures
- Experience leading a QA dept
- Experience training new QA personnel
- Experience creating test plans
- Experience coordinating with other test departments (publisher/developer side) and external testing groups
- Experience testing multiplayer games
- Takes initiative and is willing to expand his own horizon
- Passion for making games
- Ability to contribute innovative and original ideas towards streamlining the QA process
- Willing to accept and provide direction, work well under pressure, and handle multiple tasks
Responsibilities
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, graphic art, engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Experience on at least one project from start to finish.
- Minimum of 2 years games development experience or production experience on at least 2 main SKU titles, or the equivalent type of responsibility working with software developers, artists, or A/V production.
- Must be passionate about games development.
- Must be willing to commit and take responsibility for areas of project that are under your supervision.
- Very organized self-starter willing to assume responsibility.
- Must have good communication and organizational skills to work closely with many internal and external groups.
- Technical and/or art skills a major plus.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER (JGFL4057) - Gainesville, FL
The associate producer aids the department heads in tracking tasks & team members' productivity, ensuring quality control, identifying & helping to solve bottlenecks or inefficiencies, and facilitating cross-department communication. An associate producer is someone whose primary job and satisfaction comes from managing development processes to get things done.
Responsibilities
- Works in all aspects of the production of a game. Responsible for taking over whole sections of game production. These sections can be the management of particular work pipelines, such as the art, animation, cinematics, programming, design, scripting, or sound pipelines. You will track the schedule of these pipelines, manage assets, identify weaknesses, bottlenecks, and risks in the schedule, and troubleshoot communication and schedule dependency problems.
Skills and Abilities
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, graphic art, engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Experience on at least one project from start to finish.
- Minimum of 2 years games development experience or production experience on at least 2 main SKU titles, or the equivalent type of responsibility working with software developers, artists, or A/V production.
- Must be passionate about games development.
- Must be willing to commit and take responsibility for areas of project that are under your supervision.
- Very organized self-starter willing to assume responsibility.
- Must have good communication and organizational skills to work closely with many internal and external groups.
- Technical and/or art skills a major plus.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (TMMD4056) - Rockville, MD
The Executive Producer will be responsible for overseeing all phases of development of an exciting FPS.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with business development on Developer Agreements (including the creation of product Milestone Schedules) and communicate production related issues to the appropriate parties
- Serve as the primary contact with assigned internal and external developers throughout the production process and oversee developer's high-level production processes
- Budget management against individual product P/L's
- Facilitate constant dialog between engineering, art, design, QA, marketing, and sales to ensure open communication, coordination, and creative contribution.
- Participate in the due diligence process for internal and external development partners
- Assist the VP of Development in:
o Creation and management of franchise plans for specific product IP
o Creation, implementation and management of production processes, policies and procedures
o Identifying and/or selecting quality development partnerships for the production of future projects
o Write and hold performance reviews, mentor and develop assigned project team members
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years experience working as a Producer in the videogame industry
- Successful track record in the development of high profile FPS
- Shipped at least 5 titles (multi-platform) in a Producer role
- Proven track record with highly-sensitive, license-based projects
- Ability to travel to external developers
- Strong project and time management skills with a proven ability to focus on priorities, solve problems, juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines
- Excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
- Ability to work under tight schedules and high-stress environment
PRODUCER (JSCAN4055) - Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Job Type
- Permanent Staff Employment
- Base Salary, Excellent Benefits, Annual Bonus
Job Description & Qualifications
The ideal candidate will be:
- Detail oriented with proven project/production management experience, including preparing project budgets. Excellent oral and written skills are required
- Experienced in managing video game projects from start to finish which includes, but is not limited to, the coordination of art, design, and programming teams to deliver a stellar finished product on time and on budget
- Responsible for publisher relations, as well as maintaining all project-related documents and schedules
- Experienced with software management tools such as MS Project is certainly an asset
- 3+ years experience in the videogame industry
SR. PRODUCER (JGAZ4054) - Phoenix, AZ
Searching for a qualified Senior Producer.
Position Summary: Leads development through all stages of production establishing and executing the project's short term objectives.
Essential Job Functions
- Manages daily development tasks.
- Coordinates resources to ensure that schedules and deliverables meet defined objectives and quality standards.
- Establishes, maintains and enhances relationships with all team members.
- Provides input into long term strategic direction.
- Supports the strategic planning and budgeting processes for project.
- Coordinates build and milestone deliveries internally and externally.
Preferences
- 5-8 years of industry experience
- Strong process, organizational, and business skills
- Design skills and/or creative background
- Great communication and presentation skills
- Ability to establish and maintain long-term relationships
- Ability to work well with large groups
- Ability to multi-task and to adapt easily to change
- Experience with multi-platform video game production preferred
- Programming skills preferred
PRODUCT MANAGER (PRODUCER) (JGCA4053) – Marina del Rey, CA
Description
- Oversee projects from early stages through manufacturing.
Qualifications
- Mature, levelheaded, responsible person who is creative
- Extremely organized & detail oriented
- Ability to create, track and maintain comprehensive project schedules
- Great communication and presentation skills
- Strong writing skills
- Skilled with handling multiple tasks under stressful situations
- Skilled at distributing information and maintaining communication among many groups
- Experience with managing game development and production
Preferences
- Broad interest and vocabulary of video games, both past and present
- Strong project management background
- Experience with video game publishing on multiple platforms
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (TMMD4052) - Rockville, MD
Responsibilities
- Work directly with business development on Developer Agreements (including the creation of product Milestone Schedules) and communicate production related issues to the appropriate parties
- Serve as the primary contact with assigned internal and external developers throughout the production process and oversee developer’s high-level production processes
- Budget management against individual product P/L’s
- Facilitate constant dialog between engineering, art, design, QA, marketing, and sales to ensure open communication, coordination, and creative contribution.
- Participate in the due diligence process for internal and external development partners
- Assist the VP of Development in:
o Creation and management of franchise plans for specific product IP
o Creation, implementation and management of production processes, policies and procedures
o Identifying and/or selecting quality development partnerships for the production of future projects
o Write and hold performance reviews, mentor and develop assigned project team members
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years experience working as a Producer in the videogame industry
- Successful track record in the development of high profile FPS
- Shipped at least 5 titles (multi-platform) in a Producer role
- Proven track record with highly-sensitive, license-based projects
- Ability to travel to external developers
- Strong project and time management skills with a proven ability to focus on priorities, solve problems, juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines
- Excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
- Ability to work under tight schedules and high-stress environment
PRODUCER (JSWI4051) Middleton, WI
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain project schedules
- Review and approve delivered milestones
- Create cost and resource estimates
- Manage team resources from people to equipment
- Develop and maintain strong relationship with publisher and other 3rd parties
- Coordinates and runs focus testing during various project phases
- Come work with us on our exciting new titles! We offer a gorgeous work environment with state-of-the-art workstations, including 3d scanners and motion capture halls; an outstanding compensation and benefits package; a fun, team environment; impressively affordable living, and an exceptional quality of life!
Qualifications
- 2+ years of multi-faceted, project management experience
- Experience with large teams (40+ people) and complex, long duration project schedules
- Exceptional communication and people skills
- Experience driving a team to results
- Experience in employee assessment and recognition
- Proven leadership skills
- Knowledgeable in motivating large teams to success
- Self-driven and motivated
Plusses
- Experience in the entertainment or games industry
- PMP certification
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER (Action RPG Title for XBox360/PS3/PC) (SSWA4050) Bothell, WA
NOTE: Experience with RPG's and/or Action RPG's is a huge plus
Responsibilities
- Plans and manages the production of the game, allocating resources and developing an effective and efficient schedule, budget and milestone plan to deliver the game.
- Manage communication of goals and objectives, status and progress of project to management and to the team.
- Works with the Creative Director to establish and communicate project goals, objectives, plans and milestones to the project team.
- Ensures timely and accurate asset flow - manages, coordinates and controls the delivery of assets, tools and features, localization and marketing/PR materials.
- Coordinates staffing resource needs for the team.
- Documents, communicates and administers key project management processes within the project team and across the company. Coach others on project management processes and best practices.
- Leads and coaches others in Project Management practices.
- Risk Management - Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate and communicate project risks.
- Responsible for the creation of project management documents including status reports, project plans, and post-mortems.
- Works with the Creative Director and team leads in assessing the progress and quality of the project and the ongoing assessment and design of the bug tracking / task management system.
- Stays current and is conversant with PM industry standards - educates & shares with other Production team members. Analyze applicability of new standards and implement when it makes sense.
Skills
- Excellent attention to detail is essential
- Able to identify and solve problems creatively without guidance.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Strong problem solving and decision-making ability.
- Ability to work under pressure and coordinate numerous activities and groups of people who need to cooperate to achieve maximum efficiency.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment is required.
- Superior time management and organizational skills are essential.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and a broad knowledge / familiarity with scheduling software including Microsoft Project.
- Excellent analytical and mathematical skills are required.
Experience and Education
- University degree or graduate of a recognized post secondary program in project management or related discipline is preferred.
- Senior Project Manager for an entire project, capable of planning a 3 year project with a full production team.
- 5 years of experience with scheduling resources and managing projects of significant complexity.
- Experience in the Information Technology or entertainment industry is required.
PRODUCER (JGCA4049) Santa Monica, CA
Qualifications
Responsibilities include working with team leadership to manage and lead the game from concept through completion.
The Producer’s focus will be on delivering quality technology and keeping the game on schedule working closely with the Technical Director and Lead Programmer.
The right candidate will excel at working with engineers, prioritizing work assignments, ensuring the quality of engineering deliverables, and keeping a constant flow of communication between team members.
Requirements
- 7 or more years of game development experience
- Produced AAA console games
- 360 or PS3 development experience
- Excellent Oral and Written communication skills
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education at a minimum
- Proficiency with the following software:
- Excel
- Perforce (or other source control software)
- Dev Track (or other bug tracking software)
- Word
PROJECT MANAGER (JGIL4048) Champaign, IL
Responsibilities
- Develop and refine comprehensive project-wide schedules
- Manage and monitor change management process, dependency tracking and workflow maintenance
- Identify project risks and apply appropriate risk management strategies
- Develop and manage plans to achieve milestone tasks, goals and deliverables
- Prepare quarterly performance reports on all team members
- Prepare weekly and milestone status reports for team, leads and executives
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (Computer or Technical Science preferred)
- Experience as part of a software management team
- Experience with cross-discipline teams
- Proven skills in team building, change management, and risk management
Preferred, but not required
- Experience managing video game development projects
- Experience managing teams in a highly creative environment
- Experience building effective policies and development methodologies in a rapidly growing company
SENIOR/EXEC PRODUCER (TMMA4047) Quincy, MA
Summary
Looking for a Producer for our next game project. This person will manage the development operations of the entire Boston studio as well as coordinate activities with our Australia studio. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with one of the premiere development teams in the industry.
The producer is considered to be the ‘heart’ of the development team. The ideal candidate will embrace the creative tension of the development process, striving for quality at every turn while actively managing to stay within the constraints of budget and time. This person must be able to listen and react to the needs of the project and confidently direct the team to meet those requirements. We believe that great game producers must be capable of thinking on their feet and of responding flexibly to an ever-changing development environment.
Responsibilities
- Conceive and organize a project structure that effectively balances the creative and the practical.
- Collaborate with and manage the time, focus, and priorities of Creative Director, during all aspects of the development cycle.
- Work with leads and stakeholders to build a quality-focused, cost-aware project plan (budget, milestones, headcount, schedule)
- Maintain and update project schedules to reflect current project realities.
- Clearly communicate tasks and responsibilities to staff and external contractors
- Work with leads and HR staff to grow the studio in order take on new challenges and expand our development expertise and capacity.
- Identify risks and put in place risk management strategies
- Facilitate communication and cooperation in the project team
- Manage relationship with publisher and other third parties
- Coordinate with team leads and goal-based “strike teams” to triage, prioritize, and delegate project tasks
- Devise and establish development and company processes that nurture, challenge, and grow the team to reach their highest potential.
- Manage cross-time zone, cross studio development, finding the most graceful solutions to the personal and management challenge of coordinating teams on opposite sides of the world.
Requirements
- Minimum five years experience in the games industry
- Must have shipped at least 2 AAA titles in a producer, development director, or project lead role
- Experience managing a large scale software development project (40+ development staff over 2+ years)
- Experience shipping console game titles including dealing with manufacturer approval processes
- Demonstrated ability to lead the development of great products, both critically and commercially.
- Understanding of key technical issues involved with console and PC game development
- Experience with scheduling tools
- Experience managing a project budget
- Excellent people skills including the ability to motivate people and inspire their creative talents
- Experience managing conflict
- Experience in risk analysis and mitigation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong problem solving skills
- Willingness to be flexible with hours when working with resources on the other side of the world.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with remote studios and contractors
- Willingness to travel for short periods of time to publisher and remote studios
- experience with agile development methodology
PRODUCER (NWCA4046) Menlo Park
This position will
- Lead internal and external mobile game development teams from concept through post-release, including design, development, milestone reviews, scheduling and budgeting
- For branded content, deliver products that satisfy licensor requirements
- Work closely with management to secure approvals on creative decisions and establish realistic expectations for timelines, estimates, project deliverables and dependencies
- Work very closely with cross functional teams including Designers, Artists, Development Engineers, Quality Assurance Testers, and Marketing throughout the product life cycle
- Develop product documents including functional requirements
- Ensure effective overall production processes and implement best standard practices to increase levels of efficiency, quality of work and profitability.
Requirements
- 2 - 4 years Producer experience in an entertainment or consumer software development environment; Mobile background highly valued!
- Produced and launched a minimum of four titles
- Proven experience in developing the best and most appropriate content for a given technology platform
- Editorial experience and experience with creative tools a plus
- Must have excellent project management skills and good problem solving skills
- Must be detail-oriented, proactive and have excellent verbal and written skills
- Strong knowledge of project management software, project scheduling software such as Microsoft Project or FastTrack, Excel, PowerPoint and Flash
Objective
The Producer is responsible for ensuring the overall vision, quality and delivery of an individual product. The Producer must ensure that this vision is realized in every aspect/discipline and the project is completed on time and on budget, while maintaining a commitment to high standards. Should there be a conflict or problem that cannot be resolved, it is the Producer’s job to make the decision or bring the issue to the attention of appropriate Senior Management, so that the project can move forward.
Responsibilities
- Maintain the overall vision of the product with the leads and ensure the focus of the team is always working towards those goals.
- Work with leads to produce clear project plans for entire project including prototype, pre-production and production plans, staffing plans, pipeline and sharing plans.
- Create schedules and carry ultimate delivery responsibility with direct reports (leads) and assistant producers based on production plans and project vision.
- Develop and Produce production reports including comprehensive operational statistics, forecasts and status reports
- Daily supervision and review of direct reports.
- Work with Associate/Assistant Producer to ensure that the project schedule is updated on a weekly basis and that resources are properly allocated and utilized on project.
- Act as the product’s advocate or evangelist both internally and externally, ensuring appropriate focus is given to issues that may hinder the product’s success in the marketplace.
- Primary responsibility for scheduling of the project and providing up to date schedules to the team and Executives on a weekly basis.
- Manage recruitment goals and outside contractors as required.
- Facilitate communication and decision-making between disciplines and internal stakeholders.
- Update Executive team on project status, including any concerns/issues.
- Manage employee relations, performance review as well as proactively identifying and managing solutions to problems.
- Ensuring team is fully staffed and supplied with all necessary equipment.
Skills
- Very proficient at using Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.).
- Very good communication skills, both written and spoken.
- Be independent in nature, with strong ability to positively delegate direction.
- Function in high-pressure situations with passionate, driven, and sometimes difficult people.
- Love of gaming, no matter what platform or genre.
- Have a positive and professional attitude and a willingness to work hard.
- Show extreme attention to detail, including ability to offer suggestions to Leads and Executive management
- A background in any of the basic disciplines (Project Management, Art, Design or Programming)
- Has functioned as a producer or associate producer on at least two published videogame titles.
- Significant previous project and people management experience.
DEVELOPMENT MANAGER (SSOR4044)
Seeking an experienced Development Manager to oversee scheduling and logistics of high profile game production. The ideal candidate has 5 + years of experience as a Development (or Project) Manager with a thorough understanding of Microsoft Project, is proactive, self-motivated and organized.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide scheduling resources to the game development teams by generating, monitoring and updating project plans on a daily basis.
- Work closely with the project Leads, Producer, and Senior Studio Management to chart the progress of development from pre-production through finaling.
- Manage and reduce schedule slippage by concentrating on risk analysis, resource effectiveness and recovery plans where necessary.
- Monitor milestone activity by maintaining and distributing milestone checklist to team.
- Coordinate with external development partners, contractors, and outsourcing providers. Be able to work closely with external organizations that will need to collaborate intimately with our studio staff. Interface with 3rd party vendors, driving deliverables through the Q&A and approvals process.
- Liaise with various parts of the studio to ensure the specification and implementation of software components.
- Help develop and administer data flow & data organization within the project.
- Perform any other duties as assigned by manager with accountability and responsibility defined prior to the commencement of these duties.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years project management or team leadership experience in games; minimum 5 years in software development environment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with designers, engineers and artists.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results within schedule constraints.
- Proven project management skills and intimate familiarity with the tools of the trade: Microsoft Office, Microsoft project.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to effectively message information about the product vision to other departments, studio leadership and above.
- Must be comfortable working in a fast paced environment, able to facilitate effective decision making and able to provide clear goals & metrics to team and senior management.
- An avid gamer with a passion for creating games.
- Must have good comprehension of all aspects of game production (management, planning, scheduling, budgeting, staffing, programming/technology, design, art, audio, video, Localizations, QA).
- A BA or BS degree.
Console & internal-team experience a must. Prefer someone who has experience with scheduling via MS Project. Great opportunity to start up a great new project & be the lone Producer on it; a hands-on go-getter is best for this spot.
Qualifications
- Responsibilities include working with team leadership to manage and lead the game from concept through completion.
- The Senior Producer’s focus will be on delivering quality technology and keeping the game on schedule working closely with the Technical Director and Lead Programmer.
- The right candidate will excel at working with engineers, prioritizing work assignments, ensuring the quality of engineering deliverables, and keeping a constant flow of communication between team members.
Requirements
- 7 or more years of game development experience
- Produced AAA console games
- 360 or PS3 development experience
- Excellent Oral and Written communication skills
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education at a minimum
- Proficiency with the following software:
- Excel
- Perforce (or other source control software)
- Dev Track (or other bug tracking software)
Summary
In this position the Product Manager will be responsible for managing the entire production process for mobile games from concept / design to product launch. The duties will include tracking development, scheduling, budgeting and reporting project progress to management. This individual will lead product teams including design, engineering, quality assurance and porting to delivery games and services to wireless carriers.
Responsibilities
- Manage production team(s) of designers, artists, developers and QA to deliver cutting edge mobile games and lifestyle applications to the market
- Work across departments including marketing, sales, and engineering to ensure the successful product design, creation, and launch
- Manage production process from concept to simultaneous carrier launch, delivering high quality mobile games and lifestyle applications on-time and on-budget
- Manage external developers and external development process, including contract negotiation
- Prepare and maintain accurate project budgets and manage individual project P and L’s
- Communicate production issues to upper management and internal departments
- Build highly effective relationships with other parts of the mobile organization (QA, Deployment, Marketing, Sales, Enabling Technologies, Finance, HR, etc.)
- Work with Senior Management to develop MRD’s for products under consideration
- Liaise with Marketing and Sales on product launch strategies
- Liaise with Licensors on brand related issues
- For strategic partnerships, work closely with partner marketing teams on integrated marketing plans, partner and carrier channels. Manage ongoing partner relationship
- Help develop marketing communication materials and press releases for each launch product: product descriptions, marketing slick, press release, web page, and WAP page
- Consumer Insight: continue to help refine our primary target market and messaging to that segment. Monitor and report on consumer adoption trends. At the product level, organize and manage playability testing
- Brainstorm with Product Development and create requirements documents to “productize” our existing technologies or new opportunities
Skills and Requirements
- 5+ years experience in production of mobile or console games as a product manager
- Strong Project Management, Product Management and Organizational skills
- Strong written, communication, and presentation skills
- Strong balance of strategic/analytical skills and creativity
- Must be able to identify changing market developments and identify opportunities for the company
- Ability to present and explain technical and business information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated ability to work well within a team
- Self-motivated can-do attitude
Summary
In this position the Product Manager will be responsible for managing the entire production process for mobile games from concept / design to product launch. The duties will include tracking development, scheduling, budgeting and reporting project progress to management. This individual will lead product teams including design, engineering, quality assurance and porting to delivery games and services to wireless carriers.
This position will also leverage consumer insight and the competitive landscape to provide input to the product roadmap. For products under development, this position will also assist with driving product marketing activities, from title naming, concept testing, usability testing, carrier pitch development, and product submissions to the carrier.
Responsibilities
- Manage production team(s) of designers, artists, developers and QA to deliver cutting edge mobile games and lifestyle applications to the market
- Work across departments including marketing, sales, and engineering to ensure the successful product design, creation, and launch
- Manage production process from concept to simultaneous carrier launch, delivering high quality mobile games and lifestyle applications on-time and on-budget
- Manage external developers and external development process, including contract negotiation
- Prepare and maintain accurate project budgets and manage individual project P and L’s
- Communicate production issues to upper management and internal departments
- Build highly effective relationships with other parts of the mobile organization (QA, Deployment, Marketing, Sales, Enabling Technologies, Finance, HR, etc.)
- Work with Senior Management to develop MRD’s for products under consideration
- Liaise with Marketing and Sales on product launch strategies
- Liaise with Licensors on brand related issues
- For strategic partnerships, work closely with partner marketing teams on integrated marketing plans. Manage ongoing partner relationship
- Help develop marketing communication materials and press releases for each launch product: product descriptions, marketing slick, press release, web page, and WAP page
- Consumer Insight: continue to help refine our primary target market and messaging to that segment. Monitor and report on consumer adoption trends. At the product level, organize and manage playability testing
- Brainstorm with Product Development and create requirements documents to “productize” our existing technologies or new opportunities
Skills and Requirements
- 5+ years experience in production of mobile or console games as a product manager
- Strong Project Management, Product Management and Organizational skills
- Strong written, communication, and presentation skills
- Strong balance of strategic/analytical skills and creativity
- Must be able to identify changing market.
- Ability to present and explain technical and business information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated ability to work well within a team
- Self-motivated can-do attitude
Job Type
- Contract, full-time position
Job Summary
Seeking an Associate Game Producer to assist in managing the design and development of online casual games. The Associate Producer will be responsible for supporting the Producer in managing external development teams, managing the QA process and preparing the product to be released to the general public. The Associate Producer will work closely with programmers, artists, sound designers, testers, and producer.
Responsibilities
- Manage projects from product conception & design through development and launch for online casual games.
- Supporting the Producer, and maintaining and/or creating tools or process that may help in management.
- Review game designs and provide direction with respect to all aspects of production, including game play, UI, client/server considerations, performance, difficulty level, and file size constraints.
- Manage production schedules to ensure agreed upon milestones are delivered on time, design documents are kept current, and budgets are maintained.
- Review and provide feedback on test plans, manage communication between QA and developers, maintain QA database.
- Provide training for customer support team.
- Maintain ongoing updates and releases of existing products.
- Compile and prioritize feedback from internal staff and players.
Requirements
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Manage effectively across organization including onsite staff, remote employees and contractors.
- Outstanding organizational and project management skills including prioritizing, scheduling, budgeting, and keeping projects on track.
- Superior attention to detail.
- Strong understanding of how to manage across different disciplines with differing goals and aggressive deadlines.
- Must be a self-starter, an outside the box creative thinking (a plus).
- Ability to work effectively in both individual and team settings.
- Prior experience in producing or designing games, preferably casual or teen orientated online games.
- Minimum 4-year college degree (a plus).
- Passion for games.
Seeking an enthusiastic, experienced game Producer to join our growing California studio. We focus on making fun top-quality games for all major platforms: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS and PSP.
Responsibilities
- Manage the development of one or more game titles, from pre-production to final product release, to meet defined budgets, schedules and quality benchmarks.
- Create milestone content and schedules - in coordination with team leads and management - for aggressive yet realistic production schedules.
- Continuously assess risk and keep scope of the project in line with budget and schedule, while also working with team to be creative and produce the best quality game achievable within constraints.
- Act as primary liaison to the clients ensuring clear and consistent two-way communication of all pertinent project information.
- Maintain close communication with team leads and provide team members with material and technical support as needed.
- Ensure that each member of the team is working from a tracked schedule and has a strong sense of ownership, responsibility and accountability for the quality and timeliness of their contribution.
- Identify and resolve conflicts between schedule, budget and design goals
- Keep abreast of current trends in the marketplace especially with regard to similar and/or competitive product.
- Foster positive working relationships, teamwork and communication within the development teams.
- Supervise Associate Producer and provide regular feedback to assist with the AP’s development.
Qualifications
- 3+ years experience in the production of console, handheld, and/or PC games, working at a developer in a project management role.
- Highly responsible, self-directed, detail oriented problem solver with a burning desire to contribute to a creative environment.
- Outstanding organization, communication and management skills.
- Well-versed in project management practices and software including Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word, Scrum, XP. Additional software such as Photoshop, Powerpoint desirable.
o Willing to accept and provide direction, work well under pressure, and handle multiple tasks.
- Passionate about games in a variety of genres.
- Flexibility, ability to work collaboratively; excel as both a team player and a leader
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required, preferably Computing, Art, Design, Literature or similar technical or creative discipline.
- Technical skills including scripting, html, flash, level design, art, animation, coding are a plus.
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