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Production Coordinator

We are Velan Studios, an independent game developer with a passion for the unconventional. We make innovative games in a variety of genres with accessibility and depth to delight our audiences, no matter who they are. We believe in maintaining a creative, collaborative, and diverse team environment at our studio, and we are looking for passionate and capable people to join our team of experienced AAA console developers. Velan Studios is based in Troy, NY.

At Velan, we believe in maintaining a collaborative, diverse, and creative team environment and we’re looking for new team members who have a desire to help grow our studio.

If you’re an experienced Production Coordinator, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Support project leads to define and delineate project requirements and milestones.
• Facilitate communication and planning across project teams and sub-teams.
• Contribute to and maintain project roadmaps, backlogs, schedules, and other documentation.
• Conduct regular sprint review meetings and effective retrospectives
• Maintain sprint SCRUM boards
• Coordinate the work of cross-functional development teams to manage features and content from idea generation to in-game implementation.
• Track the prioritization of tasks
• Anticipate potential problems (e.g. resource blockers, quality concerns, and scope changes) and clearly communicate them to the Lead Producer.
• Collaborate and support in solving problems and blocking issues across the development team, including logistics (equipment, overtime meals, etc.).

Requirements

• Ability to create, track, and maintain schedules across multiple teams or sub-teams
• Knowledge of software development process, project management, and agile development methodologies
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Exceptional oral and written communications skills
• Demonstrated ability to be successful in cross disciplinary project teams
• Strong understanding of development workflows, production processes, testing, and development project management.
• At least one year of practical game development experience, including at least one completed professional, personal, or school project.
• Excellent organizational skills and a drive to keep team members working efficiently and effectively, and toward project goals.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to address large groups of people and interact regularly with project team and other internal stakeholders.
• Experience and understanding of localization requirements of different types of game assets for world-wide product releases.

Big plusses

• Experience with Jira for task management and bug tracking.
• A passion for games and gaming technology
• PMP Certification