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Lead Producer
Location
Massachusetts
Posted
41 days ago
Salary
$123K - $172K / year
Bachelor Degree10 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Responsible for the overall delivery of the project
• Accountable for production outcomes and for ensuring everyone involved is held accountable to their commitments, including leadership
• Collaborate with the EP and discipline leads to define the development strategy and methodology
• Maintain strong connections with internal and external stakeholders, sharing progress, setting expectations, and resolving any issues that arise
• Build, validate, and maintain a clear development plan, including dependencies, milestones, and deliverables
• Proactively identify and manage project risks - in technology, timeline, staffing, and general team health
• Lead the team’s production staff on a day-to-day basis, ensuring they have clear goals and objectives and are leading their groups effectively
• Evaluate scope, time to market, and quality trade offs. Recommend and advocate for a course of action with project stakeholders
• Track and manage the overall project budget
• Evaluate and manage co-development partners
Job Requirements
- 10+ years experience working in the game industry, including time as Lead Producer or Development Director
- Experience working in a leadership role through each phase of the game product life cycle (e.g. prototype, pre-production, production, launch, and live operations)
- Experience working closely with a broad range of disciplines, including both technical and creative teams, throughout the development cycle.
- Experience leading cohesive, creative teams ranging in size from 10 to 60 people
- Demonstrated ability to create aligned project roadmaps and timelines, and to adapt them to each phase of development.
- Proficiency in driving process change under a variety of agile and fixed-time development processes
- Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality products under budget, time & resource constraints
- History of successfully working with external stakeholders and navigating client and vendor relationships
- Ability to lead distributed teams, including a mix of internal developers, co-development partners, and outsourcing.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including motivation, mentoring, and conflict resolution
- Experience developing (and playing!) 3D action games, especially open-world RPGs
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Generous PTO program including vacation days, sick days, and holidays. Earn-as-you-go plan that rolls over year to year, offering flexibility as well as the last week of December the studio closes to recharge
- A variety of medical benefits with PPO options that start on your first day of employment
- Vision and Dental benefits
- Health Savings Account (HSA) - Available if you select a High Deductible Healthcare plan
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (HC & DC FSA)
- 401K Partial Match
- Commuter Reimbursement Program for hybrid employees
- Tuition reimbursement promoting lifelong learning
- Referral bonuses
- Bonus plan
- So. Many. Games. - Access to our huge game library!
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