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Senior Producer
4 years ago
As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent. We’re on the hunt for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
PERKS & BENEFITS
Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More
Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
Yoga & Wellness Activities
Happy Hours
Company Events
Dog Friendly
We are looking for an experienced Senior Producer who has a passion for mobile gaming & a drive for production perfection! You will get the opportunity to collaborate with some of our industry's best, working on one of Jam City’s top Puzzle Games! Your primary job will be to manage the game’s production lifecycle through development and into live operations. Your creativity and knowledge in this space will make you an appreciated and valuable player in our team!
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Drive the completion of project goals and facilitate communication, organization, process, and accountability across all departments.
- Partner with team leadership to create and recommend processes and project plans that allow the team to efficiently produce a high-quality product on time and on budget.
- Make informed decisions in conjunction with team leads on work methods, development pipeline, priorities, and available resources to ensure continued success through development and into live operations.
- Provide regular project status reporting on deliveries, identifying any potential risks with proposed solutions, and communicate this clearly on a routine basis to team and project stakeholders.
- Identify and communicate at breakneck speed any roadblocks and bottlenecks that may prevent the team from achieving their goals.
- Motivate and support team to ensure project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
- Build and maintain schedules to ensure successful and timely delivery of games, features and launches.
- Courageously live “in the trenches”, being hands on while fostering a positive & creative environment.
- Give presentations and product demos as necessary to peers, management and stakeholders.
- Supervise the Quality Assurance process for assigned titles. Work closely with QA department to maintain database for each title.
- Work with team leaders and discipline leads to evaluate directional changes, analyze the costs/benefits and impact on schedules and outline an appropriate path for production.
- Manage a small production team, coaching and training as needed.
- Able to run the project and team in Executive Producer’s absence.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years experience in a production role. 3 in a leadership position.
- Shipped multiple titles in a production role with a minimum of three mobile game projects.
- Experience orchestrating work across multiple disciplines including engineering, art, and design.
- Ability to acclimate quickly to a rapidly shifting, fast-paced creative environment.
- Ability to balance project demands with creative essentials.
- You demand quality, creativity and fun while simultaneously managing project resources and timelines.
- You are creative and forward-thinking; able to concept and execute on new and exciting game ideas with minimal direction.
- Identify opportunities, provide analytical decision making and demonstrate effective problem solving.
- Knowledgeable of current industry trends: stays up-to-date on competitive products and best practices for mobile device development.
- Experience with Agile/Waterfall/SCRUM development with hard deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to synthesize complex ideas and information for appropriate audiences.
- Calm and deliberate within a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Able to identify/assess risks and strategies to mitigate and escalate as necessary.
- Work cool under stress and pressure.
- Love of mobile and puzzle gaming a plus!
ABOUT JAM CITY
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.
Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.
The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.
Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.
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