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SMITE - Technical Producer

Hi-Rez Studios is looking to hire a talented Technical Producer to join our Titan Forge Studios in Alpharetta, Georgia and work on SMITE.

At Titan Forge, you will have an opportunity to be part of an innovative environment that embraces new and different ideas. We are a passionate and enthusiastic bunch who love video games. We have incredibly talented individuals who are empowered to create, & challenged to learn. All of this means more opportunities for you to unleash your energy, collaboration, and dedication.

What our Producers do:

• Be a leader on the Production team and production point focused on technical groups
• Collaboration with leads on capacity planning and schedule management for one or more game disciplines.
• Focus on development processes, identifying inefficiencies and introducing production and development process improvements.
• Be a conduit of communication between departments, and provide support to the team in a variety of different capacities.
• Work closely with the Production team and department leads, identifying and informing the team of any issues or needs.
• Look at long term strategies for any potential roadblocks and proactively address them.
• Partner with department leads, supporting their teams and their priorities.
• Drive features from initial requests through release.
• Sprint and Release plan and execute those plans, utilizing tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Combat inertia, act as a force to keep moving things forward.
• Identify and resolve team issues.
• Partner effectively with other team members to support overall efforts of the department, and help define and encourage production best practices.

Who we are looking for:

• Strong experience being part of a technical team, or acting as producer/product owner/etc for a technical team preferred
• Familiar with Lean or Agile software development
• Experience as a Producer on AAA game/s through the full development cycle, from concept to ship.
• 3+ years’ experience as an embedded member of a studio development team is ideal.
• A team player who is flexible, adaptive and seen as a problem-solver
• Maintain a positive/proactive work ethic
• Eagerly tackles new projects and challenges in pursuit of career growth
• Strong communication skills
• Self-motivated
• Experience with Shotgun is a plus