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Senior Producer, Mobile Games

The senior producer organizes feedback around design, features, and functionality ensuring project success. They will work with internal and external artists to ensure success and vision in the project style. This result is achieved through strong partner relationships and deep data analysis to understand a game’s performance, its viability as a business, and its ability to scale.

The senior producer will work with several departments at Kongregate as well as external partners to improve and grow the portfolio of games.

This position requires independent decision making with regular supervisory oversight in the areas of developer communication and overall product direction and health.

• Participate in and help drive business development activities, contract negotiations and developer outreach.
• Operate effective schedules that balance business objectives and resource constraints.
• Lead and manage projects from sourcing to publishing by defining goals and deliverables that support desired business outcomes in collaboration with management and stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Identify, track, and report meaningful performance/progress metrics, and support the team with achieving performance goals
• Partner with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
• Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.
• Develop and share best practices and playbook documents to help improve processes and designs within the team.
• Conduct project retrospectives and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise team members, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Build, develop, and grow business relationships vital to the success of the project.
• Remain abreast of consumer trends and industry-related best practices.
• Work closely and collaboratively with the Director of Publishing to create a talent development and retention strategy, including succession planning.
• Demonstrate consistently the organization’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, and a professional, respectful workplace.

• Project Management: Ensuring projects are delivered on time and of high quality. Ability to manage project roadmaps and coordinate with development teams and internal departments to ensure the creative vision and timeline is maintained throughout development. Consult with multiple stakeholders to define requirements and implement online and offline features. Able to manage individual titles and an entire portfolio of games.
• Game Mechanics: Understanding of gameplay mechanics, monetization systems, UI design, and other aspects of a game's core design. Ability to deconstruct internal and external games and apply best practices and trends to the portfolio
• Team Management: Maintaining a strong presence within both the Production group and the broader company. Is able to analyze a situation and troubleshoot solutions and improvements to the org. Helps others with ongoing career development.
• Decisiveness: Making and taking responsibility for, and demonstrating a commitment to appropriate decisions in a timely manner. Ensuring that decisions are made based on policies and organizational directives and that they are solving the emerging problems.
• Communication – Clearly conveys information and ideas to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Planning and Organizing – Establishes courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently and according to schedule.
• Negotiation – Effectively explores alternatives and positions to reach outcomes that gain the support and acceptance of all parties.
• Entrepreneurship — using one’s understanding of the consumer market to create and seize business opportunities, expand into new markets, and launch innovative products and services.
• Analytical Acumen — examining problems, situations, opportunities, and data to identify causes, key factors, and potential outcomes with the desire to improve overall business results

• 5+ years of experience as Producer / Product Manager for successful mobile or social games
• Bachelor’s degree required, with a preference for computer science, statistics, mathematics or economics

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficient project planning skills, including the ability to organize, prioritize and control job responsibilities in order to meet deadlines in an environment with overlapping and potentially conflicting priorities
• Ability to remain flexible and adapt to changing priorities with promptness, efficiency, and ease
• Ability to resolve conflicting situations by effectively negotiating each viewpoint
• Proficient ability to communicate effectively with others using written and spoken English including the ability to provide clear, constructive feedback to team members
• Proficient ability to analyze data, trends, and internal resources (including talent) to identify new product solutions
• Proficient understanding of consumer-facing gaming trends
• Expert ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with others; conducts working relationships in a manner acceptable to others and to the organization\
• Working ability to remain effective under stress, and respond to pressure in a manner acceptable to others and to the organization