Producer

We are looking for a highly-organized Producer with exceptional communication skills and proven game production experience. In this role, you will be responsible for owning multiple features in development, partnering with external development resources, internal stakeholders, the platform team, and various other internal or external resources involved in the publishing efforts for the Blankos franchise.

You will own the production schedule for gameplay features, establish timelines and coordinate the workload required to achieve milestones, as well as be responsible for identifying risks, providing mitigation plans, and regularly communicating development status to internal stakeholders.

Strong problem-solving skills, the ability to establish clarity from ambiguity, facilitation of collaboration with remote resources, a team first attitude, and maintaining a friendly, supportive, creative environment are all essential to your success.

Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders and resources to define gameplay feature requirements, determine resource needs, and create/maintain production schedules for development, launch, and ongoing maintenance phases.
• Being an ambassador and controller of quality for the player experience of core gameplay.

• Being aware of current gameplay trends, the content and landscape in gaming today, and an having awareness of data and metrics to inform decision making.
• Regularly communicate project and milestone, status, risks, and opportunities.
• Actively manage risk by proactively identifying mitigation strategies, gaining alignment on solutions, and executing.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to guide features and content from concept to implementation.
• Day to day creation and communication of tasks, priorities, and deadlines for internal resources and external development teams.
• Ensure that project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are fully understood, communicated and achieved.
• Facilitate healthy collaboration, strong communication, effective process, and accountability across all individuals and teams supporting the franchise.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of game production experience
• Proven results managing ambiguous situations and driving towards clarity
• Proven track record of orchestrating work across various creative and technical resources on complex software development and publishing projects

• Experience working closely with design teams to conceptualize an idea or feature
• Experience building gameplay systems
• Ability to work with leadership and resources to align priorities and develop realistic plans to deliver on schedules
• Experience developing continuous improvement to process and tools, to support increased collaboration and efficiency
• Ability to set and manage stakeholder expectations amidst competing priorities
• Expert project and people management skills
• Knowledge of various project management tools and methodologies, paired with the experience to know when and why to leverage
• Comfortable in a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Organized, flexible and able to work with multiple stakeholders
• A passion for games