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Associate Outsourcing Producer

An Associate Producer on Gearbox’s Production Team is a critical role working directly in the trenches with developers on a project. This role operates alongside the Outsourcing Manager to ensure outsourced assets are being accounted, tracked, and assisting in the creation and follow-through of tasks between external and internal developers. The Associate Outsourcing Producer will join our expanding external and outsourcing team working directly with the Outsourcing Manager. A Producer at Gearbox is committed to making the game creation process easier for their team and the broader company.

Specific Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal development teams to ensure accurate and thorough accounting of any outsourcing requests for all projects in development

• Possess a general understanding of cost assessments and budgetary restraints and ramifications that arise from project requests

• Assist Outsourcing Manager coordinate and facilitate communication and interaction between contractors and developers

• Represent the Outsourcing Manager or Senior Managing Producer over external efforts in conference calls and other platforms of communication

• Willingness to travel and attend conferences or external developers as needed

• Monitor tasks that relate to outsource development and ensure proper communication and feedback is happening between internal development and external developers

• Support Outsourcing Manager in any day to day needs- communication, identifying and resolving blockers, scheduling/coordinating/representing in meetings, creating tasks as needed, etc…

• Proactively identify areas of need and coordinate with stakeholders to ‘make it happen!’!

• Update/Create Confluence and other documentation formats that could be integral Outsourcing
• Ensure qualitative, quantitative and technical requirements requested by developers are accurately delivered by outsourcers

• Guide and act as a sanity check for internal developers to provide all pertinent information for outsourcers to do their work

• Attend regular production meetings and participate in Production Roundtables where the production team across the studio is committed to constantly improve

What Makes You the Right Person

• You are an enthusiastic and positive person that can motivate others

• You are outgoing and enjoy building and fostering relationships with a wide range of developers internally and externally

• You have unique X-Factors that you can offer the team where we can learn from you as much as you can learn from us!

• You desire to grow both individually and with the team

• You have experience working with external teams in an art outsourcing or other external development capacity (not required but preferred)

• You possess a general understanding of art and asset development

Requirements

• Direct experience coordinating and/or managing asset creation efforts in AAA game development (externally and/or internally)

• A strong understanding of schedules, pipelines, and dependencies developing games

• Fluent or able to use Perforce (or other source control)

• Willing to navigate Unreal Engine 4 as necessary to help get the job done

• Exercise strong JIRA skills and leverage how it can be applied to help organize and track efforts

• Experience creating and/or maintaining spreadsheets or schedules in order to forecast efforts, identify risks, and provide status updates

Bonus Points in your Skill Tree

• BONUS POINTS: You have experience managing, monitoring, or coordinating with managers or finance teams regarding budgets

• BONUS POINTS: Bachelors or master’s degree in games or anything that could be related

• BONUS POINTS: You have developed an entertainment effort with a group of others whether that is film, an indie game, or any other creative endeavor

• BONUS POINTS: You really know your stuff in JIRA, Confluence, and other Atlassian tools

• BONUS POINTS: You are an artist, animator, or content creator by trade, and you are now interested in a production/management role