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Senior 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 us in our San Ramon studio.

What We Need:

Striking Distance Studios is looking for a proactive and highly motivated Senior Producerto join our development team. The ideal candidate is a champion of process, detail oriented, is passionate about working in technology and has a history of working within technical environments.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with leads to define, prioritize, schedule, and track department deliverables on a new project built from the ground up.
• Run department meetings and standups. Create and track tasks across a variety of initiatives.
• Facilitate communication within the engineering groups and manage dependencies/deliverables to support all partnerships.
• Work with the team to deliver new technologies and services to end users. Document, audit, and continuously improve processes to increase team efficiency.
• Partner with discipline leads to determine time and people necessary to see projects through to completion.
• Build and maintain project plans, schedules, and roadmaps considering dependencies across multiple development teams to ensure successful releases.
• Provide transparency on project status and risks to stakeholders in order to ensure they are properly informed of any impacts from upcoming releases.

Qualifications:

• 7 - 10 years of game development experience or production experience.
• Experience working on games, with a live-services component a plus.
• Knowledgeable about games and trends in the industry, including Monetization, E-Sports, Free-to-Play and other ways games are expanding beyond the core mainline experience.
• Experience identifying the strengths and weaknesses in a game, and knowing when to marshal resources to lean into strengths or address weaknesses.
• Experience communicating with all levels of stakeholders in an organization, including cross-functional partners, external teams, and executives.
• Demonstrated technical aptitude; Strong preference to applicants with development (programming, technical) and/or game development experience.
• Deep understanding of software development process, and project management practices.
• Ability to drive high velocity, high impact development cycles, balancing out short-term needs and long-term vision.
• Passion for making games and a gamer at heart.
• Jira/Confluence, MS office/G Suite savvy. Jira admin experience a major ++.