Senior Producer (Work from Home)

Us:
A ragtag group of heavy-hitting game developers seeking to augment our ability to self-organize.

You:
An empathic leader with high attention bandwidth who finds joy in building production machines powered by cats.
Must also like video games.

Question is seeking an internal Senior Producer to work remotely as a full time employee. You would be working remotely from home with competitive salaries and benefits for U.S. residents.

Our ideal candidate for this SENIOR position is someone who has shipped two or more games with experience throughout the development cycle from ideation to post-shipping support.

EXPERIENCE

• Must be able to list at least 2 shipped games – Resumes that do not meet this requirement will not get a response

GEOGRAPHY

• Must live within U.S. time zones from Pacific to Eastern time – We want office hours to overlap – Resumes that do not meet this requirement will not get a response

• Due to logistics issues, we can only offer benefits to U.S. residents

• Work with discipline leads to plan and prioritize the team’s work towards aligned goals

• Potentially manage external partners, providing regular updates as needed

• Manage efforts that fall outside the cracks of other disciplines, such as compliance, localization, or VO

  • There is a good chance that you will be an occasional data wrangler to gather the information you or others need to make decisions

• Author and maintain milestone documentation for publishers

• Capture meticulous meeting notes and make them accessible to the team as well as future you

• Actively monitor the project’s health to make proactive decisions about next steps

• Minimal QA

  • Everyone on the team writes bug reports as they see them, including you

  • Able to document test plans and incorporate feedback from engineers, artists, and designers

  • Able to gauge and relay the health of the project to the team based on bug report data

FAMILIARITY WITH PRODUCTION TOOLS

• Bug reporting tools, such as JIRA

• Wiki tools, such as Confluence

• Spreadsheets

AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZER

• Track several threads of effort in parallel without needing to be reminded of these ongoing efforts by stakeholders

• Understand what is holistically important to the project and proactively engage in productive discussions about prioritization

• Ask questions and reach out to team members as needed to gather the information you need to decide on next steps

• Learn new things as needed (Custom Report Tools, Telemetry, etc.)

PATIENT COMMUNICATOR

• Provide succinct and clear instructions or documentation for team members or external testers.

• Create comprehensive notes from meetings/discussions that can be understood months from now

• Explain large amounts of information clearly in writing and verbally to different audiences with different levels of expertise

• Manage expectations to keep the team in the loop on what to expect and what not to stress about

• Comfortable presenting game demos to external partners, at PR events, or in press interviews