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Game Producer (Contract)
2 years ago
GSN Games is looking for a Game Producer (Contract) to join our fabulous TriPeaks Solitaire team!
About GSN Games and the TriPeaks Solitaire Team:
We believe that play matters and that’s why we create genre-leading games that are fun, engaging and rewarding. Joining GSN Games will give you a platform to work on incredible games while working alongside the best people in the business!
The TriPeaks team is a small, close-knit team which takes pride in crafting high quality experiences that appeal to a wide array of players. Solitaire TriPeaks is our most successful game (so far!). It is #1 in revenue for the mobile solitaire category, a top 50 grossing game on both iOS and Android and still growing.
What You’ll Do:
The role will focus on the production and operation of TriPeaks Solitaire and includes producing new features, content and player experiences. You are an experienced Scrum Master, a skilled communicator, an effective leader, and have produced several mobile games. The TriPeaks’ team is ready to level up its production processes and needs a producer to facilitate and evangelize this change. You will be a critical part of optimizing our use of project tracking and management tools and creating processes that allow us to manage shared resources effectively, predict team velocity and mitigate bottlenecks. You will:
- Facilitate effective team meetings: stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
- Work with the product owners and the project teams to develop and manage Product Backlogs.
- Liaise between the stakeholders and the project team to ensure user stories/acceptance criteria is clearly defined and understood.
- Uncover and remove team impediments that prevent our teams from achieving their shared goal.
- Manage product scope and control scope creep during the development sprints.
- Work with the project team to provide estimates.
- Track, measure and focus team on continuous improvement of sprint velocity, team capacity and team utilization
- Identify, manage and mitigate project and team risks.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes and offer constructive suggestions for change.
- Coach and train team members on Scrum tools and practices in an Agile game development environment.
- Evaluate and amend processes based on the team’s needs.
About You:
- 3+ years mobile game experience as a producer utilizing Scrum / Agile methodologies
- A hands-on team player with a collaborative work style
- PMP and/or Certified Scrum Master
- Effective in motivating teams and guiding them through impediments and/or conflict
- Excellent business presentation and facilitation skills, including Agile retrospectives
- You enjoy teaching and would be excited to show a team the power of effective production management tools, processes and collaboration
- You are adaptive and believe processes should evolve and change to fit the needs of the team
- You are motivated by large projects and facilitating change across a large team
- You believe in the importance of communication and use your role as producer to facilitate communication across the team rather than replace it
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