Senior Producer - Remote

Uken is looking for a Senior Producer to join the team. This position is responsible for ensuring the health, quality and delivery o f regular updates to an exciting new game title. This includes overseeing a smooth process and roadmap that is transparent, leading to ownership and accountability on the team. This position reports to the Lead Producer.

As a Ukenite, you'll be working on meaningful things like :

• Crafting and maintaining a process and workflow for the team
• Owning and organizing task backlog across releases

• Setting roadmap (structuring of current, near-term, and future plans)
• Organizing and guiding the schedule and release plan for the project quarter by quarter
• Identifying and communicating team best practices
• Checking in with team to identify concerns; making decisions to reduce barriers
• Identifying and prioritizing process improvements throughout production
• Guiding and managing development/performance of direct reports if applicable
• Ensuring interested parties and external partners are kept up to date on plans and risks

Your background should include:

• 5+ years experience in a Producer role for a published game title(s) (mobile, AAA or PC)
• Strong project management skills including gathering requirements, setting a schedule, tracking progress, giving feedback, communicating changes, risk management and setting deadlines
• Comfortable and advanced knowledge of JIRA, Google Suite and other software for project management (e.g. Asana, Trello, Basecamp)
• Experience leading teams and/or managing team members including development and performance coaching
• Ability to clearly and respectfully communicate expectations, while motivating others
• Experience working with external partners/interested parties is an asset

We believe in a fun & meaningful work environment:

• You'll be equipped with a high-end laptop, mobile device
• Competitive salary, extended health and dental benefits and allowances
• You’ll work in a collaborative, coaching and mentoring culture
• Remote and in-person team building events and celebrations
• 4 Day Workweek and Work Anywhere work model!

About Us

Uken builds games that people everywhere love. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Jeopardy! World Tour are the top 2 trivia games, engaging millions of global players every month. In 2020, Uken released Ava’s Manor, a solitaire game where users renovate and decorate the manor while discovering mysterious clues and dabbling in a romantic love story.

We consider ourselves data-driven designers, technologists, and artists. Through collaboration, we pair the craft of design with feedback and data to deliver a pace and rhythm in each game session that immerses our audience and leaves them wanting more. We have a quirky, nerdy culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, quality ideas, and a data-driven mindset. We believe in moving quickly and improving constantly, and that mantra is reflected in the weekly updates we make to our games and internal technologies. We have an appetite for pushing technical boundaries but with a focus on practical use.

We take entertainment seriously.

Uken welcomes applications from racialized people, Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, and people from gender and sexually diverse groups who would contribute to the further diversification of our team. Uken is committed to offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or accommodation for any part of the selection process due to a disability, please contact us at jobs@uken.com