Blackbird Interactive

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 understanding and resolving 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?

Blackbird Interactive is seeking a Senior Producer to oversee delivery for a large IP. You will work with talented internal and external teams, help identify their needs, and move them from full production into release and post-launch.

Responsibilities

• Oversee one or more cross-discipline feature teams
• Establish and maintain the product roadmap
• Establish and maintain the team’s scope and capacity on a daily basis
• Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies and balance priorities.
• Partner with Senior Product Owners to establish feature goals and deliver features on time
• Partner with a technical and creative leadership team to ensure project vision, deliverables and goals are met.
• Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners
• Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members.
• Manage direct reports and support career growth.
• Establish and Maintain regular communication channels with other feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders.
• Manage scope and quality, proactively assess and mitigate risk

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity.
• Strong understanding of game development cycle from pre-production to release
• Experience working directly with external and publisher stakeholders.
• Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.
• Experience in various project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
• Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment.
• Excellent verbal and written skills

Pluses

• University degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience in cross-platform development environments.
• At least 2 shipped AAA game projects.
• Experience with AzureDevOps, Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools.
• Lean/Agile certifications

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