Assistant Producer (Temporary)
Description
SUMMARY OF POSITION
NetherRealm Studios seeks a Temporary (9 months) Assistant
Producer to be responsible for overseeing specific aspects of development on
one or more projects as determined by the team’s production manager and
production staff. This position supports producers and assists the team by
managing and executing a variety of tasks to support the teams in developing
AAA video games. Typical tasks include: Communicating with and tracking
external vendors, as well as communicating issues and feedback, leading a small
strike team, scheduling and tracking assets and tasks to meet deadlines,
reporting status, identifying and reporting risks, assisting in ensuring
adherence to schedules, and creating or maintaining production systems to ease
communication burdens and gather material for the team. Understands how own
work fits into and impacts the project cycle. Contributes and shares ideas /
competitive practices while understanding that production is a support group
whose goal is to help overcome issues for the leads and directors.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Make sure that project
goals and features determined by the Senior Producer are being met.
- Make sure that team
goals for assigned disciplines are being met.
- Help identify process
and pipelines needs.
- Work with assigned
disciplines on resolving blocking issues.
- Edit game data, including
localization, as needed.
- Provide regularly
scheduled communications with internal team members, external vendors/partners,
and project leadership.
- Provide clear, concise
communication to the production team as well as all internal team members and
external vendors/partners.
- Communicating and
documenting project goals and status for outside management and partners.
- Manage team member
schedules.
- Manage assigned
project initiatives.
- Manage relationship
and delivery schedule with outsourcers related to various disciplines.
- Write and edit media
correspondence and PR requests, as required.
- Manage and wrangle
assets for marketing campaigns.
- Support PR Interviews or events
as requested.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree
preferred.
- Minimum 1 year
experience working in a Production or Project Management role is preferred.
- Experience with
outsourcing a plus.
- Experience in the
video game industry, with at least one shipped title is preferred.
- Desirable to have experience
working with at least one relevant video-game specialization in a personal or
professional capacity, be it art, tech, design, audio, UI, or gameplay.
- Multiplatform Cert and
localization experience a plus.
- Strong writing,
communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills, as well as a keen
understanding of team dynamics is essential.
- Ability to work well
under pressure and deadlines.
- Strong interest in
games.
- Good technical
understanding of games and technology, including the content creation pipeline.
- A general working
understanding of console development is preferred.
- The ability to
complete multiple concurrent tasks in a fast paced environment with minimal
supervision under tight deadlines.
- Experience with
project management tools and techniques.
- A strong understanding
the product development cycle.
- Basic understanding of
production methodologies, both waterfall and agile.
- Experience working
with the Unreal Editor 3 is a plus.
- Must be a team player
with a positive attitude and an ability to remain cool under pressure.
- Must be flexible and
able to adjust to changing requirements and expectations quickly.
- Capable of nurturing
team spirit and inspiring esprit-de-corps.
- Experience with effective
conflict resolution techniques.
- An ability to have
fun! We do make video games after all.
The Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran's status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation, gender identity or any other category protected by law.
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