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Senior Producer

Who We Are

Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions.

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

Mass Media is the premier engineering group for 2K Publishing’s Global Services. Since 1995, we’ve developed deep and multifaceted engineering expertise in video games. Whether it's platform optimization, multiplayer/networking, rendering, console certification, tools, and pipelines – we’ve done it all! Because we're part of Global Services Technology, we're at the heart of all our games. We provide the engineering to support the matrix of platforms and storefronts of today, innovative technical solutions to the problems of tomorrow, and connective tissue across 2K's studios! In short, when some of the best studios in the world have needs, we can answer the call.

What We Need

We are looking for an established Senior Producer to drive development teams in the creation, improvement and delivery of full software products. We need someone that is self-motivated, highly organized, and possess strong leadership and team-building skills. As a Producer, you’ll be responsible for multiple projects, working with both internal and external teams. You’ll need to drive each team to a specific set of goals, track and lead progress, remove roadblocks and ultimately be responsible and held accountable for delivering high-quality software. You will work with the production and QA team to focus testing efforts, based on project priorities.

What You'll Do

• Drive multiple projects simultaneously at different stages of the development life cycle
• Coordinate internal and external resources to define and adhere to strict production schedules
• Establish development priorities and landmarks on a per-project basis
• Develop product budgets and schedules and lead forecasts of the budget, anticipating, identifying, and resolving overruns
• Work with QA to identify and produce test plans
• Lead and act to prevent potential issues between internal and external expectations for projects
• Convey project health including current state, progress, potential risks, and blockers to key partners
• Partner with management and production team to define and implement best practices

Required Experience and Skills

• A love of video games and a passion for making them
• Experience handling conflict, mitigating, and resolving risks
• Solid ability to plan and supervise numerous near-term steps in the pursuit long term goals
• Flexibility to tackle additional responsibilities, as assigned by senior management
• Ability to lead to and deliver on hard product deadlines with rapid development cycles while being the guardian over product quality in all phases of game development from concept to completion
• Ability to inspire and motivate those that work for them and those they work around
• Experience with AAA console / PC products preferred

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

The pay range for this position in California at the start of employment is expected to be between $105,000 and $155,000 per year. However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations. Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an 'at-will position' and the company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.

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