Senior Producer

Description

A confidential game studio in Chicago, IL seeks a Senior Producer to be responsible for overseeing specific aspects of development on one or more projects as determined by the team’s production manager and production staff. This position supports the leads, producers and assists the team by managing and executing a variety of tasks to support the teams in developing AAA video games.

·Work with studio management and department leads to establish and maintain the game’s vision, feature set, scope, staffing plan, schedule and budget.

·Champion the game with the team to help maintain and drive energy, enthusiasm and urgency to the team.

·Ensure that the project is delivered on time, that milestone goals are set and achieved, and that the team meets the ship date target.

·A natural leader: people believe in what you lay out, listen to the direction you give them, and are willing to follow you. You are ready and willing to lead the charge.

·With strong verbal and written communication skills, you are able to talk easily with all departments about all aspects of the project and facilitate communication among all internal disciplines of the team.

·Interested in being in the trenches, involved with day to day decisions, while also being able to maintain a strong high-level vision.

·Ability to lay out the overall development plan for a game, providing input for the design of games and nurturing the project from concept to implementation to ship. 

·Ability to take broad direction from studio and company senior management.

·Manage day to day development issues, attempting to predict and avoid problems, while being prepared to troubleshoot and provide conflict resolution as needed.

·Review and analyze all documents, task lists and interim builds from the team. Create and modify schedules as needed.

·Review milestone deliveries to ensure quality and consistency with design and brand.

·Source highly talented external resources to supplement all aspects of internal development.

Work Experience

·The ideal candidate will have produced at least 5 game titles from inception to shipping as at least a producer title, at least one title as the Senior Producer, including one title which has shipped over 1 million units.

·He/she will have excellent interpersonal skills.

·He/she will be able to organize, prioritize and manage multiple tasks.

·He/she will have relevant production & project management experience.

·He/she will have the ability to see upcoming problems and work to solve them proactively.

Education, Professional Training, Technical Training or Certification

·A minimum of a bachelor's degree (or equivalent work experience) and 6+ years of production work experience.

Knowledge/Skills

·Excellent communication skills required, both written and verbal.  Must be able to manage communications effectively within development and publishing arms.

·Must have strong organizational skills. 

·Must have strong scheduling, tracking and resource management skills.

·Must have strong Production knowledge.

·Must be collaborative and an effective negotiator.

·Must be a resourceful and creative problem solver.

·Requires a self -starter with high level of initiative and proactivity.

Other Requirements

·Work with QA Manager to review testing documentation and overall quality assurance process.

·Participate in product demonstrations and press interviews as needed.

·Travel and/or work at remote site as required.