Senior Producer
Description
Senior Producer
Deck Nine Games is currently hiring a Senior Producer for
our current and next narrative adventure game.
Could this be you? Do you love spreadsheets and people?
Does a well-groomed backlog scratch your organizational itch? Is it possible
your team could be just a little more efficient? Do you min / max every game
you play? Do you eye-roll when your family or friends try to plan anything?
Most importantly, do you value leading by serving, solving conflict with grace,
and empowerment through transparency? If so, then you’re the right person for
the job.
Responsibilities:
- Delegate to and mentor a team of more junior producers
- Work with team to establish milestone schedule and goals
- Join forces with the team to build and maintain efficient
processes
- Set standards for spreadsheets and documentation for
internal and external consumption
- Manage Jira and Confluence projects / spaces
- Own costs and status so as to collaborate on
prioritization of stakeholder input
- Make decisions based on data of resources, costs, and
benefits
- Operate with an eye to cross-product needs and support
studio level prioritization
- Foster good meeting culture: number, length, attendance, etiquette
- Identify risks to team and product, construct mitigation
plans, communicate to production apparatus
- Proactively monitor potential issues before they become
blockers and establish best practice solutions to categories of problems
- Drive quality in concert with product / feature owners
against product benchmarks
- Negotiate with Publisher throughout project life cycle
- Proactively communicate milestone issues and / or create
solutions for issues
- Hold and evangelize Scrum ceremonies: standups, planning,
retrospectives, and reviews
- Collaborate with Game Director to deliver game on time
and on budget
- Contribute solutions to team, product, and studio
problems
- Member of and contributor to a positive, collaborative,
creative studio environment
- Take every idea and challenge seriously but not
personally
- Be a passionate leader every day
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in production, preferably with 3+
years as lead producer
- Shipped multiple AAA PC and / or console games,
especially knowledge of certification processes
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Pro at managing competing priorities and time management
- Establish your own priorities and solve problems
- Remain calm and positive in the face of stress and
conflict
- Strong knowledge of project management and office
software, ideally Atlassian + MS Office
- Must be willing to eventually relocate to the Denver,
Colorado region
Bonus Points
- Experience with narrative or cinematic driven games
- Worked in another discipline: programming, art, design,
narrative, animation, et cetera
- Knowledge of Agile and other methodologies, can speak to
tradeoffs and find the right path
- Expert Jira, Confluence, Excel know how
- CSM, PMP or other certifications
Benefits
- Competitive starting salary
- Generous PTO including paid parental leave
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your
family
- Growth opportunities for your career
If you are a talented and passionate game developer and
you are looking to challenge yourself, please apply today! Full-time position
available, remote to start but with ability to relocate and applicants must
already be authorized to work in the U.S.
About Deck Nine
Deck Nine Games is an independent game developer
dedicated to crafting interactive story games that inspire, transform, and
entertain players. Our passion is storytelling games.
Our first narrative game, Life is Strange: Before the Storm
is loved by fans and has won multiple awards, including Game of Year and was
nominated for both a VGA and a BAFTA. The studio is 100+ people and is in sunny
Westminster, Colorado at the base of the Rocky Mountains. We hope to share more
information about our next title with Square Enix as soon as we can.
We’re looking for talented and self-motivated people to
join us as we aim to rise to the top of the storytelling game studios. We are
part of the thriving Colorado game dev scene and our location offers a lower
cost of living and a proximity to countless family-friendly activities and
amazing outdoor opportunities. If this sounds appealing to you, please apply!
As the crafters of stories that encompass the full
breadth of life’s experiences, Deck Nine is committed to building a diverse,
inclusive, and multicultural team in which people from all walks of life feel
inspired to do their best work. We are proud to be an equal opportunity
employer and believe deeply in the creativity and strength built from diversity
of race, religion, disability, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual
orientation, nationality, and the many other qualities that make us different.
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