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Lead Publishing Producer
4 years ago
Tripwire Interactive is looking for talented, dedicated, and passionate individuals to join the Tripwire Interactive family! Tripwire Interactive is an independent video game development and publishing company, famous for shooter titles like Red Orchestra and the wildly popular Killing Floor series. With its next project poised to blow previous projects out of the water, Tripwire has solidified its spot as one of the brightest rising stars in the games industry.
At Tripwire Interactive, we pride ourselves in our ability to move to the beat of our own drum. Our existence as an independent studio and publisher means we are able to develop games on a schedule that reassesses what has become the status quo in the industry as a whole. We’re located in Roswell, GA just north of Atlanta; where cost of living is relatively low and opportunities are high. So if you’re looking to work in an environment that changes the game in more ways than one, look no further than Tripwire Interactive.
*Note: During this unprecedented time, we are looking for individuals who are able and willing to work from home until all restrictions have been lifted in relation to COVID-19. At such time, the position will be located on site.
Responsibilities:
- Manage publishing production staff supporting external developers as well as serving as primary point of contact between internal stakeholders and external teams.
- Developing schedules with internal and external teams, evaluating schedules with executive management and then managing projects to schedule, highlighting task priorities, departmental inter dependencies, resource issues and risks.
- Assist publishing leadership in creating and maintaining product roadmap and in performing product evaluations.
- Assist in producing and maintaining related budget and cost forecast for publishing projects.
- Responsible for production-led planning for all project deliverables including milestone review, external build creation and marketing/PR needs.
- Identify and offer solutions to production issues to solve the resulting schedule, cost, and scope conflicts.
- Maintain communications with all team members, team leads, and executive management; both internally and externally.
- Understand and contribute to company goals and core values while bringing a positive and collaborative approach to all project related activities.
- Suggest and lead process improvement initiatives.
- All other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Project management experience, including Scrum, Kanban, and traditional waterfall methodologies and tools, as well as the ability to prioritize and solve problems.
- Strong communication and inter-personal skills, leading to a demonstrated ability to work within a team structure.
- Attention to detail and the ability (and desire) to handle potentially stressful development environments.
- Minimum 5 years production experience including 2+ years as Senior or Lead Producer.
- Expert level knowledge and ability to mentor staff on project management principles, practices, tools and techniques.
- Understanding of game development process including demonstrated experience with first party submission requirements and ability to clinically evaluate milestone submissions.
- Strong resource planning experience; skill in organizing resources and establishing priorities.
- Minimum 2 shipped product with production credit.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain focus across multiple concurrent projects.
Benefits
- Profit Share
- Medical, Dental, & Vision 100% of premiums for the family covered by Tripwire
- Up to 30 days of PTO
- 16 paid Holidays
- Short Term Disability & Long Term Disability
- 401k Match
- Flexible Spending Account
- Flexible Hours
- Employee & Family Team Building Events
- Volunteer Days
Preference to applicants with:
- Significant Unreal Engine experience
- Passion for first person shooters
- Proven ability of tackling challenging projects
- Experience in full software development lifecycle of shipping a game
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work well under pressure, flexible, positive and focused
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