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Senior Producer

Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent studio in Vancouver. We're also moving to a four day work week, come join us!

Do you love it when a plan comes together? Are you able to look at a problem and identify the steps that are necessary to understanding and resolving that problem? Are you an expert at cross-platform game development through the entire production cycle? Do you love rallying and motivating a team towards shared goals to build a great game?

Blackbird Interactive is seeking a Senior Producer to oversee delivery for a large IP. You will work with talented internal and external teams, help identify their needs, and move them from full production into release and post-launch.

Responsibilities

• Oversee one or more cross-discipline feature teams
• Establish and maintain the product roadmap
• Establish and maintain the team’s scope and capacity on a daily basis
• Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies and balance priorities.
• Partner with Senior Product Owners to establish feature goals and deliver features on time
• Partner with a technical and creative leadership team to ensure project vision, deliverables and goals are met.
• Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners
• Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members.
• Manage direct reports and support career growth.
• Establish and Maintain regular communication channels with other feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders.
• Manage scope and quality, proactively assess and mitigate risk

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity.
• Strong understanding of game development cycle from pre-production to release
• Experience working directly with external and publisher stakeholders.
• Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.
• Experience in various project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
• Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment.
• Excellent verbal and written skills

Pluses

• University degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience in cross-platform development environments.
• At least 2 shipped AAA game projects.
• Experience with AzureDevOps, Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools.
• Lean/Agile certifications

At Blackbird, we're all about being true to our roots. We started small in our CEO's garage, and even though we're expanding, our desire is to stick to that foundation of creativity, community, and collaboration. Our team has proved that great ideas can come from any position in any discipline, so it's important to us to make sure every voice is heard.

Work/life balance is extremely important to us, and we've demonstrated that over the years by severely limiting over-time requirements. We want people to be happy about coming to work every day, and to that end we offer lots of opportunities for growth and development; whether it's lunch and learns, team events, or our generous vacation days, paid holiday closure and flexible schedules. We also try to provide every opportunity possible for our employees to spearhead R&D initiatives through our BlackOps program. In short, don't expect to feel like a cog in a machine working for BBI.

Due to COVID-19, applicants must be eligible to work in Canada, or currently in Canada on a work permit/visa. With the exception of specifically on-site roles, all roles will commence as a work-from-home arrangement. This arrangement will be revisited as COVID-19 government regulations are eased.

If you are interested in the role, please apply even if your experience and skills don’t perfectly match our ideal credentials. We are committed to diversity and especially encourage members of underrepresented communities to apply. As an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all qualified individuals. BBI does not discriminate against applicants based on genders, races, national and ethnic origins, religions, ages, sexual orientation, marital and family status, and/or mental or physical disabilities.