Senior Producer

Overview

Producers play a critical role in the successful delivery of a game that’s on time, under budget, and hits our ambitious quality bar. A Producer at PlaySide Studios ultimately takes the onus on the product delivery by leading the development team on any given title. The Producer is expected to do this by ensuring proper top-down communication to all developers of a project and draw from experiences from other silos of the business including but not limited to the design/creative team and the executive team.

If you enjoy working in the gaming community and have a strong interest in games then this is a great opportunity to join our incredible team.

Key Responsibilities

• Staffing for projects - ensuring you have the right people at the right time to limit inefficiencies and ensure smooth handoffs between team members
• Overall project success from delivering on time and sustaining success once live
• Responsible for Milestone planning, roadmaps, and day to day sprint management
• Drive the vision of the project on a daily basis - ensure the team is aligned, excited, and energized by the work we’re doing
• Team health - Making sure people are being used effectively, ensuring the team is working sustainably, and pushing for team engagement in the project and studio
• Proactively identify opportunities for team member growth and development - working with their discipline leads on how you can help them grow and learn!
• The keeping project team focused and free from distraction
• Proactive internal communication ensuring the team always knows what to expect and when to expect it.
• Regular reporting of results back to production and leadership to ensure organisation wide continued learning.
• Communication with external partners and clients to keep them updated on the project direction, changes, and status
• Managing incidents for live projects - Investigating and prioritising live bugs, coordinating resolution, communicating learnings and results
• Ensuring we make the best possible decisions on a day to day basis with the development team from concept through delivery including brainstorming, iteration, QA, and LiveOps
• Risk Management - you should see risks coming before the team, and you should proactively identify ways to mitigate them\
• Responsible for the adoption and usage of all project management tools including Jira, Confluence, Slack, etc.
• Coordinating with external stakeholders and partners ensuring they have full context, their concerns are addressed and they are as excited about the project as we are!

What You Bring To The Role

• A passion for all things tech and excellent collaboration skills
• Experience shipping new games or shipping releases for live games
• Experience leading game development teams
• Next level verbal/written communication
• Excellent time management
• Understand driving forces behind games in the current market, and the ability and willingness to dig into and learn more when needed. Criteria such as monetization, engagement, retention & the identification of a core loop. Suggest improvements as needed.

Process:

We want you to get to know us as much as we get to know you! Our process will go as follows:

• You apply with your killer CV and a folio of examples of your work!
• Quick Zoom chat with one of our delightful Talent team.
• You may then be invited in for an interview (via Zoom) to outline all of your past work, and we will let you know all about PlaySide.
• 2nd stage interview or Zoom call, to meet one of our General Managers or Directors
• You’ll then get the opportunity to meet some of our current PlaySiders - this is a casual chat and a get to know you session!