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Web Producer
2 years ago
KingsIsle Entertainment, established in 2005, is a proven MMO hit-maker with 50+ million registered users across both our MMOs with vibrant and strong communities. Our award-winning game Wizard101 is currently in its 13th year and Pirate101 is in it’s 9th. We attribute our success to great people, and we recognize the value of every team member. We work hard and have fun, whether it’s with lunchtime gaming sessions or office outings to the movies. The working environment, friendly teammates, and support for growing careers all contribute to the long tenures many people enjoy at KingsIsle.
Who You Are- Experienced in project management, or with relevant degree or certification
- A veteran of working with people in a regular, cross-disciplinary capacity
- Confident with yourself and your purpose in intimidating situations
- Intuitive user of technologies such as scheduling tools, reporting platforms, or engineering applications
- Elegant, effective, efficient communicator
- Driven by the meaningfulness of your work
- Emotionally intelligent servant leader
- Willing to engage in engineering studies, discussions, or hands-on work
How You Can Contribute- Collaborate with the engineering leadership to strategize, communicate, and implement technical initiatives
- Own the development process, including schedule frameworks, reporting, risk assessment, capacity planning, resource management, and budgeting
- Produce realistic schedules and milestones for the engineering team, and safeguard against scope-creep or reactive prioritization
- Identify and communicate roadblocks, bottlenecks, or dependencies
- Shepherd the team through development life cycles, enforce procedural discipline, and provide full-spectrum visibility
- Curate and contribute to the team's documentation library while upholding effective communication standards
- Help develop (and monitor) business, development, and production performance KPIs
- Maintain real-time awareness of all aspects of team activities, progress, and challenges
- Champion effective communication and efficient meetings
- Cultivate cross-departmental relationships
You Will- Have an important voice in solving real-world development problems.
- Be a key part of our small server team, responsible for back-end products that serve millions of users!
- Have at your disposal over 30 years of experience and domain knowledge from the leadership team. They are great mentors.
- Be exposed to all aspects of development life, including design, coding, project-lead, code review, DevOps, QA, and automation.
- Work closely with game designers, marketing strategists, data analysts and operations professionals.
- Gain experience working on Infrastructures as Code with our cloud-based production and QA services.
Extra Points If You Have Experience With- Atlassian Jira, Confluence, and Fisheye
- Microsoft Office 365, Tableau, Google Analytics
- Technical document writing, other engineering work
Considerations- Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format.
- Salary will be commensurate with experience.
- Only highly qualified candidates need apply and only candidates that meet the degree requirements will be considered.
- Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle.
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