LEAD PRODUCER

Location – Raleigh, NC (hybrid)

CREATE AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE

• Work on incredibly popular MMOs with a team of industry veterans who are driven to train/motivate their team (great career growth!)
• Experience an incredible work-life balance with a dev studio who has been around for 20 years and who truly cares about well-being – NO crunch!
• Enjoy their incredible competitive benefits package including fully covered medical, 25 vacation days, 8 sick days, 10 paid holidays, 401K w/match
• Dynamic, inclusive, challenging, and engaging work environment in an area with a low cost of living
• Continually evolving employee-based culture, including events, gatherings, contests, the occasional gift of out the blue

MAKE AN IMPACT

• Responsible for enforcing the overall vision for the direction and quality of the game
• As well as overseeing, coordinating, tracking, and managing the activities of the team to ensure that project goals are completed on time
• Provide progress updates to studio leadership, and to coordinate and manage with internal Brand/Marketing, external Marketing, Outsourcing resources, and first-party console resources
• Coordinate with Lead Producers in their other studios, as well as assisting with content creation for game development and assisting with quality control of all products

SHOW US YOUR SKILLS

• 7+ years of game development experience from which at least 5 are in an internal development Production role
• Been credited on at least 2 shipped AA+ multi-platform titles in a management position
• A demonstrated understanding of various Project Management methodologies including Scrum/Agile, as well as good organizational skills and an ability to balance project demands with high quality
• A demonstrated ability to mitigate risk and prioritize features based on their cost and risk versus their value to the project
• Strong knowledge of Excel, Word, & PowerPoint
• Proficiency with project management tools such as JIRA
• The ability to drive teams of developers to ensure timely deliveries
• Good people skills, and approachable attitude towards colleagues and other stakeholders
• Excellent communicator in speech and writing
• A calm and deliberate approach within a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Experience working with larger projects across multiple time zones and gathering feature requests from multiple stakeholders
• An understanding of open-world survival games, their feature and retention values, and the ability to make production decisions based on that understanding

 BONUS POINTS

• Experience managing external developers/resources
• Deep knowledge about game development processes for engineering, design, and art
• Experience with post-launch support and content updates
• Scrum Master certification