New Games Lead Producer

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Responsibilities

• Leverage your deep production/project management expertise to facilitate the meetings and collaboration needed to create and coordinate roadmaps, define backlogs and milestones, identify and mitigate risks, and guide the team and project through planning, development, and release as well as improving processes along the way.
• Synthesize strategies/goals/ideas from development and product teams into project plans and defined deliverables.
• Deliver world-class, free-to-play mobile games and services in collaboration with 3rd party development partners meeting timeline and budget targets as you keep the project on track.
• Collaborate with your team, our development partners, cross-company teams, and studio leadership to coordinate product requirements, scope, schedule, and research from concept through launch and during live operations.
• Collaborate across the company to define and implement best practices, standardized processes, to share learnings and mentor project producers to grow their skills in these areas.
• Assess costs and benefits, identify and mitigate risks; manage escalations; anticipate and make tradeoffs; and balance business needs with technical constraints.
• Define and execute daily operational and product impacting priorities across shared services teams to ensure effective completion, communication, and documentation.
• Stay current on a changing mobile market, evolving trends, best practices, game features, and practices to provide insight and feedback on game design, implementation, and options.

Qualifications

• You are a strong facilitator, communicator (verbally and in writing), organizer, and project manager; you know how to manage up, down, sideways, etc., connecting all disciplines to express what is needed, why, and the plan to get.
• With knowledge of game industry standards, tools, project management, production processes, and awareness of what it takes to bring out the best in each team member, your consistent collaboration and communication motivate all toward a unified outcome.
• You have a track record of and passion for building an environment that promotes team success by emphasizing third-party development, production, and publishing processes using your understanding of multiple project methodologies.
• Your hands-on experience with tools, services, release processes, and knowledge of their impact on development aids you as you build and execute realistic plans.
• You like to dig into the technologies, systems, tools, and analytics that are the bedrock for long-running, successful products and use as use it to showcase progress, identify issues and help resolve them to ensure quality and timely releases while improving overall game delivery and quality.

• You have working knowledge of modern program management and tools (e.g. Confluence/Jira; Google Drive products; Smartsheet; MS Office).
• 12+ years experience, leading at least 2 projects from concept to delivery in a lead producer capacity
• You have experience or certification with SCRUM/Agile development methodologies.

Preferred Experience

• You are familiar with managing and mitigating risk through the software development lifecycle and live service operations.
• Data is your guide as you use research, player behavior, and KPI results to inform decisions and prioritization to improve project success.
• You have product management skills with AB testing, live ops, data analysis.

You have exposure to or experience with Outsoucing and/or partner development.

About Big Fish

Celebrating 20 years delighting players worldwide, Big Fish Games is a mobile games category leader in Casual & Social Casino.

Big Fish operates an extensive portfolio of popular games across genres, including EverMerge, Cooking Craze, Gummy Drop, Big Fish Casino, Jackpot Magic Slots, and Fairway Solitaire. Our core values: All about the player, Talent Unleashed, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen.

Why Big Fish?

At Big Fish Games, we make the best games, the best possible way. We show up every day to enchant and delight our players and contribute to building a great company. We think big because that’s what our players demand.

B ig Fish Games is an equal opportunity employer. We bring unique talents together to build something special that’s why we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

Our Values

• All about the Player
• Talent Unleashed
• Collective Brilliance
• Good Business Good Citizen

The US based roles may require registration with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.

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