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Executive Producer
2 years ago
You are an experienced product leader that has direct experience producing all major game phases (e.g. concept, pre-production, production), including successful live production. You are a connector, linking senior leadership to employees through open communication to ensure all parties remain informed by appropriately cascading organization information and rolling up feedback from the team. You can stay at a high level and articulate a long-term strategy; at the same time, you can roll up your sleeves and do what it takes to support the team when the situation calls for it.
Sounds like you? Read on!
Our Vancouver studio is looking for an Executive Producer to join our team. As an Executive Producer, you will build accountability within your team as well as cohesiveness, supportiveness, and working effectively together to enable each employee and the team to succeed. You support and foster a growth mindset by engaging and encouraging others to continuously learn through training, mentorship, providing feedback, and coaching.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Sustain product vision and goals in alignment with the organization’s overall strategic direction
- Develop, maintain, and be held accountable for the long term product roadmap and its product goal achievement
- Collaborate directly with corporate partners to develop multi-year brand strategies
- Evaluate development processes for success and iterate where both the team and product need to grow
- Be a strong advocate for your team and their health
- Mentor the Production staff and serves as the primary advocate of our players
- Build excitement around products throughout the game team and the studio
- Remain current on competitor products, industry trends, and techniques in game design
- Evaluate "Product Health" in multiple product phases and is accountable for the overall strategy to maintain product health
- Regularly participate in the staffing, recruitment, onboarding, and performance review processes throughout the year
- Fosters a respectful work environment through encouraging collaboration and appreciation of diversity through all levels of the organization
- Cultivate a safe environment for the group that allows for disagreement over ideas, conflict, and expeditious conflict resolution and sets the tone for positive team culture and contributes to great culture at Kabam
Adding to the ingredient of success, you will bring:
- 10+ years in gaming (ideally free-to-play mobile), with 5+ years in a leadership role managing a large team
- Experience in crafting the direction for a product and the results to showcase it
- You want to be a mentor, and you see immense value in nurturing the next generation of aspiring and developing gaming professionals
- Strong understanding of technologies associated with game development and production (capabilities and limitations)
- Experience in working with data telemetry to craft and validate hypotheses and understand problems
- A track record of strong leadership, leading by example, and are comfortable with ambiguity
- Experience dealing with both the ups and downs of running a live product
- Keeping the momentum of success going when things are good and experience in dealing with live issues when they randomly occur
- Exceptional communications skills, both verbal and written, concisely and professionally with all levels of the organization
- Solid business acumen paired with the ability to understand complex issues and synthesize the information into digestible pieces to share with the team
- Ability to forge strong relationships within the team, across different disciplines and departments within the organization
- Superb organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills
To take it up a notch, you will also have:
- Additional language abilities
- Game design background
Excited by this opportunity? We invite you to apply and start the conversation with us.
Excited by this opportunity? We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader of developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games for mobile devices. They merge consumer behaviour with the art of game design to create experiences that are enjoyed by millions of players across the globe. Each game has raised the benchmark in mobile gaming, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology and revolutionary gameplay to the console in every player’s pocket.
Kabam has partnered with leading entertainment brands like Disney, Hasbro and Universal to create mobile games based on some of the world’s most iconic franchises.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Austin. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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