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We’re seeking a proactive team leader and creative producer to lead a talented team of product designers, drive impactful projects, and collaborate closely with design, product, and engineering managers to pioneer revolutionary sports experiences.
Ideal for a strategic thinker who excels at managing multiple tasks concurrently, the Games Design Producer is adept at assembling efficient project teams and overseeing detailed design tasks across various products and teams. They spearhead every aspect of the project lifecycle, from identifying customer needs and clarifying requirements to leading project teams, conducting design reviews, and harnessing cross-functional expertise to introduce impactful solutions to the market. Providing vision and direction, fostering creativity, and coordinating team-wide initiatives are all part of their role.
Our team is deeply involved in scaling existing media services and introducing new ones. Our culture is diverse, passionate, fosters healthy debate, and is customer-centric. The ideal candidate is keen on shaping their own growth, seeks a company where they can explore diverse functions and locations, and sees a job title as a starting point for what they can achieve with the team.
The Producer navigates design challenges, identifies and mitigates project risks, manages dependencies, and addresses issues impacting deliverables and timelines. They oversee design projects from concept to completion, guide each project through the design process, ensure continuous progress by monitoring project status, resolving questions, identifying next steps and potential risks, and facilitating design reviews. They act as a liaison between Design and cross-functional teams.
**Key Responsibilities:**
– Lead multiple projects and initiatives aimed at launching new sports features and capabilities.
– Drive workflow innovations, contribute to the operational roadmap, and implement new work methodologies.
– Lead high-profile projects with significant executive visibility and interest.
– Maintain oversight of all projects and initiatives by the Games Design teams.
– Cultivate and manage cross-functional relationships and partnerships.
– Advocate for the Design team in product and resource planning discussions, negotiating priorities within constraints of limited resources and ambitious timelines.
**Key Qualifications:**
– 5+ years as a design producer in software design or at an agency.
– Ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects and priorities.
– Strong problem-solving skills and ability to focus on critical issues.
– Passion for delivering innovative Human Interface design.
– Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
– Meticulous attention to detail and adaptability to change.
– Experience managing remote work streams across multiple time zones.
– Proven track record of collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to launch and refine new product designs.
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Our client, a Tech Company, is seeking a Game Producer to join its team!
Key Qualifications:
- 5+ years as a design producer within software design or at an agency.
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and achieve results while managing multiple projects and priorities.
- Strong aptitude for quickly grasping complexity and focusing on critical issues.
- Passionate about delivering innovative and exceptional Human Interface design to our customers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to adapt to constant change.
- Experience managing remote work streams and partners across multiple time zones.
- Proven track record of collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams (Design, Engineering, Business, R&D, etc.) to conceptualize, iterate, launch, and refine new product designs.
Pay Rate: $65/hr W2 – $72/hr W2
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Our client, a Video Game Studio, is seeking an Audience Development Manager to join the team!
Responsibilities
- Identify growth opportunities in content programming, publishing practices, and platform strategies to increase engagement & reach of content.
- Manage audience development and content strategies for multiple titles
- Work with cross-functional teams to develop and execute programming plans.
- Harness data analytics and insights to positively impact content decisions that will
- resonate with our community and audiences.
- Understand and adjacent competitor audiences to guide development of content strategies and identify growth opportunities.
- Create, manage, and distribute key reports, campaign postmortems, and
- competitor/landscape analysis
- Develop and champion content and platform best practices among the content and operations teams
- Champion and foster a culture and discipline of data science among internal and partner teams
- Manage and optimize key data analysis tools to provide actionable insights for our marketing and content creation teams
- Implement effective data-tagging and data automation & dashboarding
- Oversee Social Analytics Coordinators group, guiding projects, developing technical skills, and ensuring quality of work
- Act as main point of contact with key platform representatives
- Support ad hoc executive/leadership data and reportings requests in support of business needs (forecast, budgets, best practices, KPIs)
- Work with content creation teams to optimize content slate for platform-specific audience preferences and best practices
- Partner with operations to optimize and communicate Audience Development project and workflows statuses
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of emerging platforms, changing best practices, and upcoming trends to help the teams innovate
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional experience in corporate environments
- 3-5 years of experience in social media management, strategy and/or digital marketing research
- Strong analytics and data science skills
- Possesses a highly collaborative mindset
- Proficient in Sprinklr or similar analytics tools (Hootsuite, Sprout Social, etc.)
- Familiarity with YouTube Analytics & platform strategy
- Experience with competitor research tools such as Tubular
- Deep familiarity with current social and video platform landscape
- Possesses strong communications skills (written and presentation)
- Able to manage cross-functional relationships with stakeholders at all levels of leadership
- Able to manage multiple projects and workflows
Plus
- People/team management experience
- Experience with optimization tools like VidIQ and Tubebuddy
- Familiar with Blizzard games and titles
- Experience in gaming or related industries (entertainment)
- Experience with Wrike or other project management tools
- Data-science / statistics experience
- Project management experience
Pay Rate: $50/hr W2- $57/hr W2
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