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 Producer

A Producer is relied upon to manage scheduling and the day to day production of internal and external groups. Responsibilities include collaborating with senior producers, creative leads and studio managers to develop and maintain a specific discipline or project plan to determine resource, budget or schedule needs.

Responsibilities

Manage the production of one of more discipline teams in all areas to include:

• Managing the production pipeline of a specific discipline or disciplines throughout all production phases
• Responsibility for specific phases or portions of the product development cycle from design through final approval
• Managing development efforts to keep product development on schedule and within budget
• Overseeing day-to-day production issues in all aspects of game quality. Scheduling and maintaining day to day tasking of departmental and interdisciplinary teams. Partner with other producers to balance resource contention.
• Fostering and maintaining relationships with internal and external team members
• Ensuring effective communication between team members, outside developers, consultants, all inter-company resources and other producers
• Planning and troubleshooting production resources with designs and scope forecasted
• Assisting Senior Producers and Lead Producer to create and maintain schedules, scope and resource planning

Manage the day-to-day production issues through analytic thinking and information gathering. This would include:

• Breaking down large or complex projects into meaningful subprojects
• Assimilating diverse information and assessing the impact on each piece of the project as well as on the project as a whole
• Identifying all groups that may be affected by the project, and involving them – actively soliciting their input and following up through execution
• Holding regular meetings with the project teams and individuals to discuss status, resolve issues and share information
• Ensuring a common understanding and agreement on the project scope and objectives and on any subsequent changes

Contribute to current and future Product Development needs. This contribution would include:

• Maintaining and enhancing creative relationships with internal development team
• Partnering with team managers to deal with personnel issues and individual growth, such as meeting task expectations, as well as actively tasking individuals toward determined growth goals
• Participating in yearly performance review process, helping to gather and provide feedback under the supervision of team managers
• Maintaining and enhancing necessary processes and procedures for product development while coordinating with development team to ensure SIE company-wide policies are adhered to
• Providing resolutions to a diverse range of complex problems and uses judgement within defined policies and practices

Education & Experience:

• Minimum 4-7 years of industry experience in a product development environment
• Minimum 2 years as Producer on a 50 plus person team
• Prior experience working with large development teams
• Previous internal team production experience required
• Two or more published titles considered a strength
• Experience producing for large scale, AAA game preferred
• Four year undergraduate college degree or equivalent skill set

Skills:

• Project Management
  • Ability to create and maintain project schedules and milestone documentation, monitoring the progress of department milestones and individual tasks against those schedules
  • Proven experience producing cross-functional, creative development teams and resources to quality and schedule goals
  • Familiarity with traditional waterfall production management techniques and Agile techniques, including SCRUM, Kanban or Crystal. CI-ACP, CSP, PMP or equivalent certification a plus
  • Excellent organizational & prioritization skills, attention to detail, process knowledge and ability to multi-task
  • Experience with Microsoft Office (emphasis on Excel), Hansoft, JIRA, Confluence and other project tracking and bug database software
• Communication & Collaboration

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively across product development and management teams

• Interpersonal and facilitation skills
• Strong ability to work in partnership with various producers, developers and other SIE business units
• Ability to identify other business units with necessary technical knowledge and cultivate relationships
• Ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Industry
  • Knowledgeable of current industry trends: stays up-to-date on competitive products and best practices
  • Must love games and have a passion for creating them!

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