Nintendo

Producer - Audio & Localization (Retro Studios)

Nintendo • $100K — $120K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in game development as a Producer or Project Manager for cross-discipline teams
  • Prior experience in an audio role within game development
  • Experience collaborating with engineering, art, and design teams
  • Strong knowledge of AAA game production phases
  • Proficient in Jira, Confluence, and other Atlassian tools
  • Exceptional soft skills with a supportive yet firm approach
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Effective time management capabilities

Responsibilities

  • Support audio team and localization efforts by prioritizing work based on product readiness
  • Track localization-ready content and communicate dependencies and delivery status
  • Help define audio development budgets, including cost forecasting
  • Facilitate meetings and track action items to support departmental initiatives
  • Collaborate across disciplines to organize and prioritize work effectively
  • Coordinate sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives for team alignment
  • Analyze team performance data to improve future sprint commitments
  • Communicate status updates and inform long-term milestone strategies
  • Refine risk mitigation strategies with key department leaders
  • Work with Quality Assurance for deployment coordination
  • Manage vendor contract drafts with publisher/legal and finance departments

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment
  • Opportunity to work on AAA game development
  • Professional growth and development opportunities
  • Cross-disciplinary teamwork
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies
Full Job Description
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
  • Support the audio team and localization efforts to define, track and prioritize work based on product readiness, critical path needs and development priorities.
  • Support tracking of localization-ready content, text/VO dependencies, approvals, and delivery status across internal teams and external partners.
  • Help define and track overall audio development budgets, including forecasting internal costs and outsourced/vendor budgets.
  • Support departmental initiatives by facilitating meetings, taking notes, resolving blockers and capturing/following up on action items.
  • Work across disciplines with Leads, Feature Owners, Stakeholders, and dependent groups to capture, vet, organize, prioritize and track work.
  • Coordinate and run sprint and milestone planning, reviews and retrospectives.
  • Track team velocity and scope vs capacity data to continuously improve accuracy with future sprint and milestone commitments keeping plans up to date.
  • Communicate high level status (on track, at risk) and use historic data to inform strategies to hit long term milestone goals.
  • Share and refine risk mitigation strategies with Department Directors, Lead Producer and VP of Development.
  • Collaborate with other producers and departments to establish and refine content pipelines and development processes.
  • Coordinate with the Quality Assurance department for build deployments and build notes.
  • Liaise with publisher/legal and studio finance to manage drafting and approval of vendor contracts.

* This job description outlines primary duties and requirements and is not intended to identify all tasks that may be performed; individuals occupying the position may be required to perform other duties. The company may modify job duties from time to time, either in practice or in writing.

SUMMARY OF REQUIREMENTS:
  • 7+ years of experience in game development as a Producer or Project Manager of cross discipline teams.
  • Prior experience in an audio role in game development
  • Experience coordinating with engineering, art, and design-based game development professionals.
  • Deeply familiar with pre-production and production phases of AAA game development.
  • Deeply familiar with Jira, Confluence and other Atlassian products.
  • Excellent soft skills with a firm yet supportive demeanor.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Excellent time management skills.

PREFERRED SKILLS:
  • Familiarity with Excel.
  • Familiarity with Miro or similar collaborative whiteboard solutions.
  • Familiarity with ShotGrid/Flow.

About Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto. Nintendo is one of the world's largest video game companies by market capitalization, creating some of the best-known and top-selling video game franchises of all-time, such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon.
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Size
6,071 employees
Industry
Media
* Ladders Estimates

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