Game Producer
Description
We are looking for a seasoned first party Producer who has worked with teams of artists, designers, and engineers to make high quality games. Primary responsibilities include managing the work of our release engineering team, drive the expansion of automation tests, identify opportunities to automate the release process, and evangelize engineering excellence. Key to this role is the ability to inspire and motivate, reduce risk, increase predictability, and manage a project end-to-end. In order to succeed, you will need to continually evolve, document, drive and sometimes create new processes needed to create a high quality AAA game. An attention to detail, being self-motivated, being flexible, and an ability to drive and influence is a must.This team works on infrastructure.
Candidate responsibilities:
• Work at various stages of development to ensure milestones are delivered on time and to the highest possible quality.
• Create and maintain the project schedule; ensure teams are on track with their deliverables.
• Keep the team aware of milestones deliverables and goals through all phases of development.
• Identify risks in advance and drive the team towards successful resolution before the risks turn into fires.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a Program Manager, Producer or related experience.
- Experience working with Scrum methodology preferred
- Some experience with automated testing tools and concepts preferred (including unit tests, functional automation, TDD, code coverage) Build or test automation familiarity – not necessarily need the experience
- Familiarity with Telemetry systems - SPLUNK - preferred
- Proven ability to plan, create and maintain a highly effective production schedule for multiple disciplines in all phases of development, from concept to completion.
- Demonstrated ability to drive and influence across teams towards adoption of engineering best practices.
- Must possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and be a master at conflict resolution.
- Be comfortable creating process. Our processes have to evolve every day. The processes we use need to be light and minimalist, but effective enough to yield predictable quality results.
- Be results driven.