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Principal Producer
1 year ago
About ProbablyMonsters™ Incubation Team
Established in 2016, ProbablyMonsters is a next generation independent game company that creates long-lasting studios and exceptional games. Revolutionizing the way AAA game studios are built, ProbablyMonsters provides its teams the resources and creative environment needed to foster stable, rewarding, and life-long careers while delivering best-in-class entertainment through a positive people-first culture.
We have built three studios so far. Each of them has a unique identity built around the type of gamer experience they are creating. Knit together inside the ProbablyMonsters family culture, all studios are bonded by the core values of respect, trust, accountability, and approachability.
Connected by the company’s mission to unite, guide, and empower developers to create exceptional entertainment experiences, developers are given the confidence, security, and stability to create and ship their games free of distractions.
Our Incubation Team focuses on prototyping new ideas, new game concepts, new franchises, and the incubation of new studios with the ambitious vision to create genre defining games for the next generation of players. This is one of those unique opportunities that only happen once in a lifetime.
The Role
We are looking for a Principal Producer who is experienced in producing teams, driving development, and managing business partnerships. We are in the earliest phases of development where exploration and innovation happen quickly, so we will need to build and then rebuild plans as we iterate and adapt to find the core game and product. We are all enthusiastic about helping to shape a culture of collaboration and trust while creating best-in-class action games.
Who You Are:
- A production leader with experience delivering quality games through all stages of development.
- A business leader that understands marketing, PR, analytics, and contract negotiation.
- Unwavering in your desire to create a positive and inclusive work culture.
- Excited to work with and be a part of a larger organization of publishers, investors, and partner studios.
- Comfortable working in the highly iterative and ambiguous realities of the incubation environment.
- Effective at breaking down complex ideas and communicating them effectively across disciplines, teams, and companies.
- Motivated and independent when possible, unafraid to ask for help when needed, and always willing to offer help.
- Enthusiastic about joining an incubation team of around 25 people and helping to grow it into a full development team.
- Skilled at giving and receiving feedback on game development and interpersonal interactions.
What You Will Do:
- Develop, evolve, and share best practice processes for all stages of game development from a production perspective.
- Develop and maintain relationships with publishers and middleware providers
- Plan milestones, provide estimates, manage risks, and assign tasks ensuring work is completed on time.
- Attend playtests and provide constructive feedback across all aspects of the game.
- Implement production process and be accountable for planning, tracking, and delivering game milestones.
- Work both strategically and tactically to execute on studio goals, tracking and reporting against roadmaps to our business stakeholders.
- Communicate progress, status, issues, and plans to key constituents across the organization.
- Work closely with Probably Monsters teams to ensure alignment on progress, milestones, and development stages.
- Assist and mentor other producers and team members.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Professional industry experience as a Producer
- Experience in contract negotiation and managing middleware provider relationships
- Shipping one title end to end is a plus.
- In-depth knowledge of production and project management methodologies, Kanban, Scrum, Agile, and Waterfall.
- Experience in leading teams with a people-first culture that evangelizes diversity and inclusion.
- Able to communicate effectively with a wide variety of people, both inside and outside of our studio.
- Live-Service game experience is a plus.
Our commitment to you:
- A people-first culture founded on respect, trust, approachability, and accountability.
- A stable home that values your potential, deeply cares about your work-life balance, and is committed to investing in your craft and long-term career.
- Competitive benefits package including health and family benefits, employee assistance program, flexible and paid time off, financial benefits and professional and personal development.
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