Senior Producer (CONTRACT)
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the production roadmap for key areas of the game, in partnership with discipline leads and project leadership, shaping the delivery strategy for multiple cross-discipline teams.
- Partner with discipline leads and project leadership to translate creative and technical goals into achievable plans, managing milestone definitions, staffing needs, and risk forecasting.
- Drive day-to-day production decisions for your area, coordinate project-wide dependencies, and handle scope and prioritization tradeoffs.
- Manage capacity planning, team sequencing, and resource needs, identifying staffing gaps and outsourcing opportunities in partnership with leadership.
- Drive sprint, milestone, and roadmap planning for your teams - ensuring goals are clear, and work is appropriately estimated. Facilitate key ceremonies such as standups, retrospectives, and bug triages.
- Provide leadership with clear, timely visibility into schedules, scope, quality, and dependency risks.
- Shape scalable production frameworks, reporting standards, and planning practices to support team predictability and well-being.
- Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to other producers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and professional growth.
Requirements
- Shipped game experience: Professional experience driving game features or major project areas through full production cycles on large, cross-discipline teams.
- Production expertise: Solid understanding of game development pipelines and project management methodologies (such as Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall).
- Tool proficiency: Proficiency utilizing Jira (or similar project management tools) for backlog management, tracking, and reporting.
- Collaborative leadership: Proven ability to build consensus and alignment among creative, technical, and production stakeholders.
- Problem-solving skills: Strong capability in capacity planning, dependency tracking, and proactive risk mitigation.
Nice to Have
- Experience working on AAA, live service, or multiplayer titles.
- Experience collaborating with external development, co-development, or outsourcing partners.
- Experience working with distributed or hybrid/remote teams.
Qualifications
Shipped game experience: Professional experience driving game features or major project areas through full production cycles on large, cross-discipline teams.
Production expertise: Solid understanding of game development pipelines and project management methodologies (such as Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall).
Tool proficiency: Proficiency utilizing Jira (or similar project management tools) for backlog management, tracking, and reporting.
Collaborative leadership: Proven ability to build consensus and alignment among creative, technical, and production stakeholders.
Problem-solving skills: Strong capability in capacity planning, dependency tracking, and proactive risk mitigation.
Nice to have: Experience working on AAA, live service, or multiplayer titles. Experience collaborating with external development, co-development, or outsourcing partners. Experience working with distributed or hybrid/remote teams.
Skills
Shipped game experience: Professional experience driving game features or major project areas through full production cycles on large, cross-discipline teams.
Production expertise: Solid understanding of game development pipelines and project management methodologies (such as Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall).
Tool proficiency: Proficiency utilizing Jira (or similar project management tools) for backlog management, tracking, and reporting.
Collaborative leadership: Proven ability to build consensus and alignment among creative, technical, and production stakeholders.
Problem-solving skills: Strong capability in capacity planning, dependency tracking, and proactive risk mitigation.
Nice to have: Experience working on AAA, live service, or multiplayer titles. Experience collaborating with external development, co-development, or outsourcing partners. Experience working with distributed or hybrid/remote teams.
Benefits
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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below, this is an hourly rate. $75—$75 USD
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Pay
The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below, this is an hourly rate. $75—$75 USD
Schedule
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