Lead Producer

<div><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/blackbird-interactive">Blackbird Interactive</a> is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.</div><div>Our studio operates as a remote-first workplace, offering flexible work arrangements. </div><div>At this time, we are only able to hire candidates who are legally eligible to work in Canada and reside within Canada.</div><div>Do you love it when a plan comes together? Are you able to look at a problem and identify the steps that are necessary to understand and resolve that problem? Are you an expert at cross-platform game development through the entire production cycle? Do you love rallying and motivating a team towards shared goals to build a great game?</div><div><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/blackbird-interactive">Blackbird Interactive</a> is seeking a <strong style="font-size: 11pt;">Lead Producer</strong> to lead the successful delivery of a large IP across multiple platforms. You will work with talented internal and external teams, help identify their needs, and move them through all project phases, including post-launch.</div><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Establish and maintain the product schedule &amp; roadmap.</li><li>Manage overall project scope and quality, proactively assess and mitigate risk.</li><li>Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies, and balance priorities.</li><li>Define, drive and own milestones and other project deliverables.</li><li>Partner with technical and creative leadership teams to ensure project vision, deliverables, and goals are met.</li><li>Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve.</li><li>Oversee cross-discipline feature teams and maintain scope and capacity on a daily basis.</li><li>Partner with project creative leadership to establish feature goals and deliver features on time and on budget.</li><li>Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners.</li><li>Establish and maintain regular communication channels with feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders.</li><li>Mentor, coach, and support producers and other team members.</li><li>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.</li></ul><h3>Requirements</h3><ul><li>Minimum of 8 years of experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects.</li><li>Proven track record of successful releases.</li><li>Strong understanding of the game development cycle from pre-production to release and beyond.</li><li>Experience leading medium to large size development teams.</li><li>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.</li><li>Is a steady and practiced hand at steering a game's production through the different stages of development.</li><li>Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project.</li><li>Experience working directly with external and publisher stakeholders.</li><li>Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.</li><li>Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines.</li><li>Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and collaborative team environment.</li></ul><h3>Pluses</h3><ul><li>University degree or equivalent professional experience.</li><li>Experience in cross-platform development environments.</li><li>At least 2 shipped AAA game projects.</li><li>Experience with AzureDevOps, Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools.</li><li>Lean/Agile certifications.</li></ul><p>Originally posted on <a href="https://himalayas.app">Himalayas</a></p>