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Game Producer (Agile Project Manager)
2 years ago
GSN Games is looking for an experienced Game Producer (Agile Project Manager) to join our fabulous TriPeaks Solitaire team!
About the TriPeaks Solitaire Team:
We believe that play matters and that’s why we create genre-leading games that are fun, engaging and rewarding. 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. 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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