Lead Producer
CanadaFull-TimeLead
Salary125000 - 160000 CAD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- Minimum of 8 years
- Required Skills
- AgileJiraAzure DevOps
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects.
- Proven track record of successful releases.
- Strong understanding of the game development cycle from pre-production to release and beyond.
- Experience leading medium to large size development teams.
- Demonstrable ability to develop and manage clear, adaptable project schedules and delivery plans, applying appropriate project management methodologies, tools, and frameworks to drive effective execution across complex projects.
- Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project.
- Experience working directly with external and publisher stakeholders.
- Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.
- Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and collaborative team environment.
- University degree or equivalent professional experience (plus).
- Experience in cross-platform development environments (plus).
- At least 2 shipped AAA game projects (plus).
- Experience with AzureDevOps, Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools (plus).
- Lean/Agile certifications (plus).
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain the product schedule & roadmap.
- Manage overall project scope and quality, proactively assess and mitigate risk.
- Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies, and balance priorities.
- Define, drive and own milestones and other project deliverables.
- Partner with technical and creative leadership teams to ensure project vision, deliverables, and goals are met.
- Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve.
- Oversee cross-discipline feature teams and maintain scope and capacity on a daily basis.
- Partner with project creative leadership to establish feature goals and deliver features on time and on budget.
- Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners.
- Establish and maintain regular communication channels with feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders.
- Mentor, coach, and support producers and other team members.
- Champion effective production processes, identify opportunities to improve processes that will increase quality and efficiency, and help shape the evolution of production practices across the team.
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