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Senior Producer (New IP)
1 year ago
Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.
In 2022, we announced that our studio is implementing a four-day work week as well as supporting in-studio, remote, and hybrid work arrangements as permanent options to our employees.
Senior Producer (New IP)
The Directors of Hardspace: Shipbreaker are starting their next project! Blackbird Interactive is seeking a Senior Producer to help oversee the creation of a brand new IP from start to finish . This is a rare opportunity to start a project from the seed of an idea, grow the team, work within our incredibly talented internal IP division, and craft something truly special.
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? If this sounds like you, please apply!
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
- Experience in creating and maintaining a positive team culture with a “people first” attitude
- University degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience in cross-platform development environments.
- At least 2 shipped game projects.
- Experience with AzureDevOps, Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools.
- Lean/Agile certifications
Vacation & Extras
+ 4-day, 32-hour work week for all full-time staff
+ Mentorship program
+ Skunkworks internal game jam program
+ 4 weeks paid vacation per year
+ 11 paid stat holidays
+ 3 paid days per year for professional development
+ December holiday studio closure (extra paid time off!)
+ Comprehensive health/dental benefits from day 1
+ Life insurance
+ $300 Healthcare Spending Account per annum
+ RRSP matching up to $1500
+ Profit-sharing bonus program
If applying for an artistic role, please provide a link to your portfolio and/or demo reel.
Any questions about the role and/or accessibility requests can be sent to: hr@blackbirdinteractive.com
Unfortunately, we cannot reply to everyone. Only successful applicants will be contacted about the next steps. Thank you for your understanding.
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 inclusion and especially encourage members of historically marginalized communities to apply. As an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all qualified individuals. BBI does not discriminate against applicants based on gender, race, national and ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, marital and family status, and/or mental or physical disabilities.
Blackbird Interactive is privileged to be developing our projects on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ /Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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