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Associate Producer [Anno] (f/m/d)

Job Description

Anno is a critically acclaimed and award-winning franchise, offering a rich city-building experience and providing players ample opportunity to create huge metropolises, plan efficient logistics networks, explore and settle new lands and dominate their opponents by diplomacy, trade or warfare.

As an Associate Producer on the ANNO team, you will implement best processes, methods, and tools to help the team deliver a project on time and budget, without sacrificing quality. In this role you will ensure the attainment of production objectives and the advancement of project related work, while playing a key role in maintaining a highly motivated team.

Reporting to a Producer, you assist in the development of assigned products from concept to release, build strong relationships with your stakeholders, and collaborate closely with the entire production team to support our ambition of growing the ANNO brand into a worldwide premier empire builder franchise.

What you will do:

• Lead and take responsibility for certain areas of production in close collaboration with a producer
• Help the development team to work efficiently on all their tasks, assess risks, and stay on track with deliverables
• Help identify and resolve problems or blockers that may have an impact on project delivery; This explicitly not only contains issues/blockers with tasks/scheduling, but also qualitative issues with the product
• Monitor team health. Highlight and escalate potential issues and support taking actions to resolve them when necessary
• Document and maintain project information
• Act as a point of contact for all logistical needs of the development team and some external stakeholders. Promote and facilitate process/workflow improvements
• Organize, protocol, and follow up on development/team meetings

Qualifications

What you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject or equivalent industry experience
• 3+ years of experience working on development projects (ideally contributed to all phases of the project-life cycle)
• Knowledge of project management methods
• Good understanding of the games development procedures and are eager to help optimizing them in your team
• Fluent in spoken and written English
  

What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience, and skills
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary, and why you would like to join us

Additional Information

Your benefits:

• Relocation Support: We offer financial support in form of a cash allowance and assistance with accommodation search and settle-in support via our relocation partner, for international candidates we offer visa assistance.
• 26 days paid vacation per year. Additionally, you will get half a day off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve and approximately 11 bank holidays in the Mainz region.
• Flexible Working Hours: We have core working times between 10:00 AM – 04:00 PM and the distribution of the other hours is up to you.
• Opportunities for growth on your desired career path: Leadership training, workshops, guest speakers from the industry, online Ubisoft learning platform, coaches, Experts and library.
• Company Pension Scheme. We offer an attractive scheme through salary sacrificing in which the employer also matches contributions
• Up to 350€ childcare support per child per month. In addition, we also offer 5 ‘care for ill children days’ per child per year.
• Discounted Games. We regularly order Ubisoft Games for super cheap prices for our employees.
• Gym Subsidy. We contribute 50% (up to a maximum amount of 25€) towards the monthly cost of a gym membership of your choice.
• Monthly Mobility Budget. 80€ per month that can be used on bicycle lease, parking spot rental or public transportation ticket.
• Our Ubisoft Blue Byte Academy offers multiple opportunities for you to discover your full potential and develop yourself in various areas.
• English and German classes for free. Main language in the studio is English.
• Free fresh Fruit, Coffee, Tea and Water. Enjoy fresh fruit and beverages in our office.

For further information, please check https://mainz.ubisoft.com/en/

Company Description

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft’s 21,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

About Ubisoft Mainz

The teams at Ubisoft Mainz are engineering some of Ubisoft’s biggest blockbusters. Operating from a historic city in the heart of Germany, the studio develops games pushing the limits of the genre like the acclaimed Anno 1800 and lends decades of expertise to AAA co-development projects like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and the upcoming Beyond Good And Evil 2. More information at mainz.ubisoft.com.