Job Description: Producer
Department: Production
Compulsion Games is a first party game studio and subsidiary of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, located in Montreal, Canada.
We are a boutique team of industry veterans, who trust and respect each other and love our craft. Our games have won praise for their art, music, world building and narrative. We are now working on our next project!
We like to take on troublesome themes. We try to make characters with compelling, human flaws. We mix darkness and comedy.
Job Description
The Producer is the guide and coach of the team(s) that they work with. Their goal is to help shepherd the development of the game, to ensure that we meet the creative goals set by the direction team and the strategic targets set by the studio and production direction. They will facilitate clear communication, ensure team resources are efficiently used and help resolve issues on the team.
Responsibilities
- Work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure clear communication and alignment on production goals
- Help set and maintain game development timelines, and work through the logistics of the production process
- Ensure the well-being of the development team by listening to concerns and feedback while facilitating decision-making
- Help define project deliverables and assess risks
- Provide regular feedback to the Leadership team on deliverables and project progress
- Assist with bug management process and foresee possible delays that could affect quality, schedule or content
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of production management experience
- Experience working on at least one shipped PC or Console game
- Experience managing team(s) with interdisciplinary dependencies
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Experience working with tracking software (ex. Jira, DevOps)
- Nice to have: experience working with outsourcing studios or co-dev partners
- Open-minded, collaborative, proactive.
- Good video game knowledge
If that all sounds like you, then we would love you to come and work with us.