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Principal Technical Producer, Tools and Workflows

• A technical ‘go getter’ and leader with a proven track record of delivering web-based applications and user experiences, through all development stages, leveraging best development practices whilst maintaining a positive culture.
• A strategic and collaborative thinker that can build a vision and plan to execute against product roadmap across multiple years.
• Obsessed with delivering customer experiences that delight and excite across our inhouse tools.
• You are a self-starter with a passion for designing and building workflows, tools, and systems to support production excellence.
• Someone who can design and prove out concepts before handing over to engineering teams for full implementation.
• You can translate between all technical and design disciplines and create plans and implement solutions to that empower and enable all teams through cross-discipline collaboration and development-driven production.

• Work within the Product Group, reporting to the Director of Production, to create technical solutions for our family of studios, as well as manage projects overall across the Production Group.
• Build out solutions for planning the whole game lifecycle in Jira, to enable studios to focus on making games, and not building out Jira frameworks.
• Create workflows that connect Jira to Shotgrid, providing optimized solutions saving teams time and effort.
• Partner with our Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to manage the development of our portfolio and product tracking bespoke toolset.
• Build, grow, guide and lead a team of Technical Program Managers and Producers to build our plans and execute on the tactical day to day of programs and projects.
• Be accountable for project managing, running sprints, tracking, and reporting, and risk management for all initiatives.
• Collaborate with studios to gather requirements and present solutions that can scale, be easily supported, and work well across all our systems.
• Build out no code/low code prototypes yourself to prove out core concepts through PowerApps and Flows.
• Work both strategically and tactically to execute on Product Group initiatives, tracking and reporting against roadmaps to our business stakeholders.
• Manage the flow of communication owning healthy relationships between all stakeholders.
• Serve as a friendly resource for other producers, assisting them in the resolution of complex problems and growing their skillset.

• 5+ years of professional industry experience at Principal level, 2+ shipped products (games or applications) as a producer or program manager.
• Able to communicate effectively, both written and verbally, with a wide variety of people and skill sets both inside and outside of the development studio while maintaining a courteous and professional demeanor.
• Knowledge of VBA, DAX, and Web Application Architecture, and working knowledge of technical frameworks to build out solutions for single-page applications (SQL, Angular, React).
• Ability to script to implement prototypes in applications such as Excel and Power BI.
• Core knowledge of production and project management methodologies, Kanban, Scrum, Agile, and Waterfall.
• Values that align to our people first culture that evangelizes diversity and inclusion.
• Goal oriented and driven and ability to juggle multiple projects.
• Bonus: expert in Jira and Shotgrid, or the appetite to become one.

• A people-first culture founded on respect, trust, approachability, and accountability.
• A stable home that values your potential, deeply cares about your work-life balance, and is committed to investing in your craft and long-term career.
• Competitive benefits package including health and family benefits, employee assistance program, flexible and paid time off, financial benefits and professional and personal development.