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Game Producer, Features - Unannounced Project
4 years ago
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a talented and passionate producer to work on our exciting unannounced project. As a Producer, you will act as a champion for the team by building a strong culture of empowerment and self-accountability where creativity and self-direction flourish.
We are a team of passionate developers that highly value open-minded collaboration, direct feedback, and work in a fast paced, highly iterative environment. As a producer on the team, you will have a strong understanding of game development best practices and production methodologies, collaborating with our teams to ensure clear goals are outlined and realized throughout the various phases of development. When particularly hard problems arise, you will draw upon your diverse experience and the team’s collective creativity to remove blockers and produce a Blizzard-worthy game.
The ideal candidate will have past experience working on game teams during different aspects of the product lifecycle such as prototyping, preproduction, production, beta, and release. By blending your production experience with your engineering, artistic, and design know-how, you will empower our teams to bring to life an exciting new project at Blizzard.
Responsibilities:
- Champion the team by building a strong culture of empowerment and self-accountability where creativity and self-direction flourish.
- Partner with senior producers to assist with the daily tasking and prioritizing of the team.
- Collaborate with production team to ensure clear goals are outlined for milestones and realized during development.
- Assist on project block schedules that provide the team with clear visibility and line-of-sight on achieving future milestones.
- Facilitate team ceremonies such as weekly syncs, milestone planning, build reviews, playtests, brainstorm sessions, and feature kickoffs.
- Ensure communication is flowing between groups and ensure that everyone has buy in on tasking and goals.
- Gather and provide effective and constructive feedback to the team, providing suggestions and solutions for improvement when applicable.
- Serve as an ambassador of Blizzard core and team values, such as "Leading Responsibly" in all interactions and activities.
- Remain current on industry trends including, new game genres, new game development methodologies, and emerging technologies.
- Promotes a spirit of teamwork and contributes to lifting team morale.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience shipping AAA titles in production roles (or equivalent experience).
- Can champion and manage projects with multiple departmental dependencies towards completion in a timely manner.
- Basic knowledge of software development life cycle, project management, and production processes.
- Proven ability to create, track, and maintain complex schedules.
- Ability to identify production risks and be solution oriented.
- Collaborative and progressive thinker capable of inspiring large teams towards a unified goal.
- Able to communicate effectively with engineering, art, design, audio, and QA.
- Calm and deliberate within a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative, with an ability to make sense of the ambiguous.
- A deep passion for and knowledge of Blizzard's creative and game development process.
- A force for good who always acts in the best interests of the team and game.
Pluses
- Ability to flex in production style.
- Facilitation training and experience.
- Exposure to all aspects of game development, from low-level engine development through high-level IP development.
- Experience wearing many hats in a startup-like environment.
- Experience with Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence.
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