Senior Producer

Blackbird Interactive

$125K — $140K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in a producer/project manager role for full-cycle projects
  • Expertise in guiding game production through various development stages
  • Skilled in creating proactive risk mitigation and contingency plans
  • Proficient in project management methodologies like Waterfall and Agile
  • Strong experience with external stakeholders and publishers
  • Proven ability in scope and capacity management
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee complex projects or multiple cross-discipline feature teams
  • Maintain product roadmaps while proactively assessing risk and capacity
  • Work with Product Owners to set feature goals and ensure timely delivery
  • Manage resource needs and balance project priorities effectively
  • Collaborate with technical and creative leadership to meet project goals
  • Iterate on development processes to adapt to team and product growth
  • Mentor producers and team members while managing direct reports
  • Establish communication and coordinate dependencies with other teams
  • Champion production processes to improve quality and efficiency.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a talented, innovative team
  • Engagement with exciting new IP in the gaming industry
  • Potential for career growth and mentorship
  • Dynamic and collaborative work environment
  • Flexible project management methodologies to suit project needs.
Full Job Description
Do you love it when a plan comes together? Are you able to look at a problem and identify the steps that are necessary to understanding and resolving that problem? Are you an expert at cross-platform game development through the entire production cycle? Do you love rallying and motivating a team towards shared goals to build a great game? Blackbird Interactive is seeking a Senior Producer to support the delivery of an exciting IP. You will work with talented internal and external teams, help identify their needs, and move them through all project phases, including post-launch. **Responsibilities** - Oversee projects, or one or more complex cross-discipline feature teams - Establish and maintain team and product roadmaps, evaluating and assessing capacity on a daily basis, proactively assessing and mitigating risk - Partner with Product Owners and Stakeholders to establish feature goals and deliver features on time - Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies and balance priorities - Partner with the technical and creative leadership teams to ensure project vision, deliverables and goals are met - Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve - Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners - Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members. - Manage direct reports and support career growth - Establish and maintain regular communication channels with other feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders - Champion effective production processes, identify opportunities to improve processes that will increase quality and efficiency, and help shape the evolution of production practices across the team. **Requirements** - Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects - Is a steady and practiced hand at steering a game's production through the different stages of development - Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project - Strategic thinker with high proficiency in various project management methodologies, who knows when to apply which methodologies to drive toward effective outcomes - Experience working directly and successfully with external and publisher stakeholders - Demonstrable experience of short and long term scope and capacity management - Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development. - Experience in various project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile - Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines - Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment - Excellent verbal and written skills. **Pluses** - University degree or equivalent professional experience. - Experience in cross-platform development environments - At least 2 shipped AAA game projects - Experience with AzureDevOps, Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools - Project management certifications. $125,000 - $140,000 a year

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