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Producer

Industrial Toys is a AAA mobile developer founded by Halo veteran Alex Seropian. Our mission is to make games that are Mobile To The Core! We are currently working to bring cutting edge FPS gaming to your phone. If you’re interested in working with veteran mobile, console, and PC developers in creating new AAA experiences that will reach billions of mobile players around the world we would like to hear from you!

Role Overview:

The Producer will be responsible for translating the business & milestone goals of the project into robust development backlogs & then work with the teams to organize and achieve these goals. This role would work closely with the lead producer, development directors & product leads to ensure we are properly prioritizing features, understanding resource limitations and delivering a quality product that aligns with our goals.

The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of the product development processes, organizing large backlogs and working with multi-disciplinary teams from the concept phase through to live service. This candidate has experience in mobile development, free to play games, virtual economies and ideally the mobile FPS market.

Responsibilities:

• Work with lead producer and product stakeholders to communicate high level milestone goals to the development team & help drive the development roadmap throughout production.
• Work with lead producer to understand the stack rank of key creative pillars of the product, expected quality targets and how to mitigate risk against the features.
• Manage the development teams’ backlogs through the creation of well-defined user stories, clearly articulated acceptance criteria and the tracking & management of dependencies across teams.
• Sit with the team and serve as a conduit between the development team and the lead producer/ product stakeholders.
• Work with Development Directors, QA and leads to ensure work is completed correctly and presented in software at desired levels of quality.
• Solve production issues unblocking teams to be successful in their work raising any issues such as; competing priorities, quality concerns & resource constraints

Required Skills:

• Recent experience working on AAA game titles. Mobile preferred but not required.
• Very strong project planning, team leadership & organizational skills.
• Strong communication and writing skills, with experience preparing and presenting information to various

stakeholders. Ability to effectively communicate both creative and technical progress to a diverse group of

stakeholders.

• Comfortable with creative and technical teams with a preferred previous background in development.
• Strong in JIRA, ability to create and manage many individual team backlogs simultaneously (all 1 product focus).
• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to juggle priorities and stages of development.
• A strong background in AGILE development.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree, or relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience in game production working on large scale games
• Previously built and maintained multiple team backlogs, ideally in JIRA from a concept phase through to ship/ release.
• Mobile and/or FPS development experience a plus

Enjoy EA Industrial Toys studio benefits of:

• Spacious 19,000 sqft 10th floor office with amazing views of the San Gabriel mountains, all of Pasadena, and Los Angeles (on a clear day)
• Weekly Happy Hours, donuts and bagels.
• Full kitchen with snacks, drinks, espresso machine and nitro cold brew
• A game room with classic multi-arcade machines, modern consoles, and PC gaming stations
• Foosball, Ping-pong table, and Cornhole game
• EV charging
• Motorized sit-stand desks
• Private wellness room