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Senior Producer
1 year ago
We are Velan Studios, an independent game developer with a passion for the unconventional. We make innovative games in a variety of genres with accessibility and depth to delight our audiences, no matter who they are. We are the creators behind the award-winning hit games Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit and Knockout City. We believe in maintaining a creative, collaborative, and diverse team environment at our studio, and we are looking for passionate and capable people to join our team of experienced AAA console developers.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Producer to join our Production Team. The Sr. Producer will lead one of our internally developed projects, working closely with the project’s Game Director, Art Director, Engineering Lead and other key project leaders and stakeholders to successfully meet quality, schedule, and budget goals for the project.
If you’re an experienced game producer, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Work with project leads to define and delineate project requirements and milestones.
- Coordinate the work of cross-functional development teams to manage features and content from idea generation to in-game implementation.
- Anticipate and address potential problems like resource blockers, quality concerns, and scope changes. Communicate effectively to ensure these problems are resolved quickly.
- Facilitate communication and planning across project teams and sub-teams.
- Manage the prioritization of tasks, bugs, design iteration, and user/tester feedback.
- Build and maintain project backlogs, roadmaps, schedules, and documentation.
- Collaborate and support in solving problems and resolving issues across the development team.
- Manage external publisher and stakeholder relationships.
- Lead and provide mentorship to Producers, Associate Producers, Production Coordinators, and QA team members.
- Ensure features and content follow established documentation and development workflows.
- Conduct regular, effective retrospectives and post-mortem reviews.
Requirements
- 5+ years of game industry experience, including at least one shipped AAA title.
- Experience managing teams or sub-teams of 12 to 40 developers.
- Ability to create, track, and maintain schedules across multiple teams or sub-teams.
- A deep understanding of software development processes, project management, and agile development methodologies.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Exceptional oral and written communications skills.
- Demonstrated ability to be successful in technical environments.
- Experience coordinating and/or managing engineers, artists, and/or game designers.
- Strong understanding of development workflows, production processes, testing, outsourcing, licensing, and development project management.
- An internal drive to keep team members working efficiently and effectively toward project goals.
- Passion for continuous improvement.
- Experience and understanding of localization requirements of different types of game assets for world-wide product releases.
Big plusses
- Experience with Live Operations and managing post-release content development.
- Diverse experience with Jira for task management and bug tracking; including database setup, organization, and maintenance.
- A passion for making and playing great games, with an awareness of current titles and industry trends.
- Experience with speaking to press, publishing partners and game community members in an official development capacity.
- PMP Certification.
About Velan Studios:
Velan Studios is an independent studio comprised of a passionate and diverse team of seasoned developers. We are the creators behind Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit and Knockout City. Velan Studios’ mission is to create ground-breaking game experiences centered on new forms of play across both existing and emerging platforms. Velan Studios maintains a team of both remote and on-site employees. On-site employees work from our office in Troy, NY.
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