Lead Producer - Tactical Shooter (Unreal 5)
Canada, Pacific-time overlap requiredFull-TimeLead
Salary125000 - 160000 CAD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- Minimum of 8 years of experience
- Required Skills
- AgileJiraUnreal engineAzure 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
- Is a steady and practiced hand at steering a game’s production through the different stages of development
- 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)
- Experience in concept & prototype phases (Plus)
- Experience developing third person tactical shooters (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 a technical and creative leadership team to ensure project vision, deliverables, and goals are met and delivered on time and in budget
- 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
- Work closely and foster strong and transparent relationships with external partners
- 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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