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Core Producer

Description

As a Game Producer, you work with and lead a dedicated Feature team with Engineering and Product Owner partners. Using excellent communication and great project management, you will work with the team and team leadership to drive and report on development progress for the game. You have prior experience in game/software development and a keen knowledge of how each discipline operates and interacts. Being self-motivated, having the ability to anticipate production issues and find effective solutions are also critical to your success.

Key Responsibilities

Essential Job Functions:

• Create and track short and long-term schedules for game features and assets
• Supervise the team’s task management, maintain task lists, backlogs, and communicate deadlines
• Organize agile ceremonies, supporting the team’s stakeholders to prioritize the team’s backlog
• Develop, improve, and maintain processes for sharing game information, art, slot, and audio assets with external teams
• Schedule, lead, and attend meetings; set agendas; take concise and comprehensive notes and distribute them to appropriate personnel.
• Provide weekly reporting to production game leadership
• Collaborate with other producers on project status, identifying risks, and opportunities
• Maintain a risk registry for your feature team
• Contribute to a positive and constructive work environment with unrelenting follow-through
• Navigate team dynamics, understand how to resolve conflict, and escalate issues

Requirements

Required Experience:

• 1 to 3 years of previous experience working as a game producer or project manager, on a shipped video game or mobile game project
• Demonstrable ability to create, track, and maintain team schedules, and to drive projects to completion in a timely manner
• Skill to communicate effectively, correctly, and succinctly with key stakeholders
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to drive towards clarity; a strong collaborative problem solver
• Strong mediation skills
• Knowledge of software development and project management, including agile/scrum frameworks
• Jira dashboard, scrum board, and scrum report experience
• Experience facilitating effective retrospectives, incident management post-mortems, and reviews

Preferred Experience:

• Prior experience in Social, Mobile, or Casino games
• People Management experience
• A passion for fostering development processes and best practices
• Experience with online games
• Expertise with Jira, Confluence, Lucid Spark, Trello, or comparable applications
• Experience as a Jira admin, editing or creating workflows
• Strong familiarity with Excel and SharePoint

We are SciPlay! We make games!

At SciPlay, we are programmed to think untraditionally, and we believe in doing what you love and doing it well. We take pride in our ability to stay ahead of the game! We are the brainiacs behind-the-scenes; innovating, dreaming, and navigating the social gaming world. Together, if we stay passionate and ambitious with our goals, no one can stop us from becoming the #1 social and casual gaming company.

A few of our highlighted perks and benefits:

· Competitive salaries

· Annual bonuses, matching 401k

· Hybrid work model (3 days in office)

· Fun environment: Open Office Concept with Ergonomic Seating and Standing Desks. Game Room featuring current generation consoles, numerous game titles, and various table games.

· Food! Fully Stocked Kitchen with Beverages and Snacks, as well as company-paid lunches 2x/week

· Summer Hours

· Paid Family Leave

· Paid Volunteer Time

· Annual 2-night company retreat

Read More About Our Values Here:

https://www.sciplay.com/life-at-sciplay

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At SciPlay we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Both professionally and personally, we believe our differences are key to unlocking our superpowers. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have! #beYOU

SciPlay is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Light & Wonder, Inc. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games! Learn more atwww.lnw.com.

SciPlay Corporation and its affiliates (collectively, SciPlay) are committed to creating a workforce of credibility and dependability. As a prerequisite to employment with SciPlay (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SciPlay conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you. This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above. SciPlay is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here EEOC Poster.

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