Description
Deck Nine Games is currently hiring a 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.
Apply online through our website: https://deckninegames.com/
Responsibilities:
- Work with team to
establish milestone schedule and goals
- Join forces with the
team to build and maintain efficient processes
- Construct spreadsheets and
documents 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
- 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
- Push for quality with
respect to resources
- Identify opportunities
for pushback with publisher or internal stakeholders and communicate with
data
- 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
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience
in production, preferably with 1+ years as lead producer
- Shipped AAA PC and / or console
games
- Excellent verbal and
written communication
- Pro at managing
competing priorities and time management
- Able to 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
Bonus Points
- Experience with
narrative or cinematic driven games
- Worked in another
discipline: programming, art, design, narrative, animation, et cetera
- Knowledge[LM5] of
Agile and other methodologies
- Strong Jira, Confluence,
Excel know how
- CSM, PMP or other
certifications
Benefits
§ Competitive
salary depending on experience
§ Unlimited
vacation time and paid Parental Leave
§ Health
insurance for you and your family at a low cost to you
§ Dental and
Vision insurance for you and your family at NO cost to you
§ Life
and Disability benefits at NO cost to you
§ Optional
Flexible Spending Account (including Healthcare and Limited Purpose),
Dependent Care Account, and Health Savings Account available
§ Optional
Supplemental Health and Life Insurance
§ 401(k)
Plan with an Employer Match
§ 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 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.