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Producer

Welcome to Striking Distance Studios!

Striking Distance Studios continues to grow. We are looking for talented developers with experience working on large-scale, live service games to join our studio.

What we need:

As a Producer at Striking Distance Studios you will lead a multidiscipline content team, partner with creative stakeholders and clear the path for your developers to succeed in achieving their goals.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with your team to define, prioritize, schedule, execute, and track level production deliverables.
• Manage and track content through the production framework. Ensure department deliverables are met as defined in agreed upon timeframes. Track task status from kickoff to through final with an unwavering eye towards helping the team achieve quality.
• Run review meetings with team members and key stakeholders. Collect, collate, triage, and distribute prioritized feedback from stakeholders back to the team in actionable format. Ensure feedback is acted up on and re-reviewed when ready.
• Tune and evangelize scope metrics as informed by department capacity. Manage level scope to established budgets.
• Work with QA to create test plans for content, functionality, and qualitative feedback.
• Triage inbound bugs, prioritize, assign out for action and load balance across resources.
• Promote cross discipline communication to ensure team alignment and shared vision of project goals.
• Document, audit, and continuously improve processes to increase team efficiency.
• Provide risk assessments to production leadership and recommend strategies to mitigate.
• Conduct 1on1’s with your team members, providing mentor ship, feedback and guidance.
• Work across disciplines and with other Producers to ensure that information is shared studio-wide
• Investigate and help establish new software and tools to improve process
• Proactively search for solutions to problems and help unblock the team
• React to issues as they come up, working with key stakeholders to solve problems as quickly as possible

Qualifications:

• 2+ years’ experience working as a producer or similar role.
• Experience mentoring direct reports.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Able to juggle multiple priorities under intense pressure/scrutiny.
• Familiarity with waterfall and agile production methodologies.
• Jira/Confluence, MS office/G Suite savvy.