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Senior Producer
1 year ago
Disruptive Games is a veteran development studio specializing in multiplayer and online experiences. We are an independently owned studio working on a AAA, fully-funded title with original IP!
We’re expanding our fully-remote team with people who share our passion for collaborative, multiplayer gameplay.
Disruptive Games is looking for an experienced Senior Producer to help facilitate and drive communication across all of our teams and track the overall status of our projects.
You will work closely with all team members to reduce inefficiencies, identify problems or miscommunications, and relay this information to help solve the issues.
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate with team members across the US and internationally to ensure good quality and reasonable timelines are being met.
- Help define the scope, milestones, and deliverables of the project, while managing risks and supervising related mitigation or opportunity plans.
- Drive and own responsibility of major features from a market, player, content, and technological perspective.
- Learn and mentor new production, communication, and development processes and techniques with fellow producers, assisting with their professional development and with building the production department as a whole.
- Partner with multiple creative teams from the earliest concept stage through the production process, establishing best practices, defining project needs, and assisting on building excellence and resilience in our core teams.
- Help devise and establish best practices for balancing scope, schedule, resources, and quality, especially in a LiveOps or Games-as-a-Service environment.
- Help with project planning (establish goals, budget estimates, schedule, and production contracts) and handle coordination with teams such as QA, Localization, Customer Service, PR, Marketing, Legal, and other teams.
- Experience working in task tracking software such as Clickup, Asana, Jira, Shotgrid, or Trello. Excellent skills with either Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. Excellent wiki and documentation skills for software such as Confluence or Notion.
- Represent production progress to cross-functional colleagues and executive management, ensuring smooth and open communication across the project, both internally and with external partners.
What You'll Bring:
- The position is 100% Remote but candidate willing to work Pacific time zone hours: range from US West Coast time zone to Hawaii (UTC-8 to UTC-10).
- 5+ years of experience in the production of video games.
- You have shipped at least one AA or AAA title either on PC and/or console from start to end.
- You have strong experience in building and leading high-performing teams, with proven negotiation skills with peers and external production partners.
- Project planning experience (goals, budget estimates, schedule, and production contracts) and familiarity with the gaming landscape.
- Strong communication skills, including motivational skills and techniques and conflict resolution skills.
- Strong working knowledge of dependencies and timelines in a cross-functional collaborative environment.
- Proficient communication skills (written and oral).
- Proven ability to work with creative and technical partners, focusing on multiple features while meeting changing deadlines and priorities.
- Adept at Google Suite.
- Highly organized and an effective multi-tasker. Strong time and project management skills.
- Proven ability to identify and analyze risks while leading mitigation support.
- Experience building or working on wireframes, GDDs, TDDs, and product specifications.
- Experience with project management and communication tools such as Trello, JIRA and Discord.
Bonus Points
- Experience in shipping titles and/or live operations of at least two titles, across multiple platforms.
- Technical background or technically inclined.
- Passion for Free-to-Play or service-based PC and console games.
- Direct knowledge of gameplay mechanics, monetization systems, and other aspects used in the core designs of live service games.
Disruptive Games is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, interview, and hire people of all backgrounds, orientations, identities, and expressions.
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