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Deck Nine Games

Westminster, Colorado - United States
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Senior Producer

Description

Deck Nine Games is currently hiring a full-time, remote Senior Producer to join our award-winning narrative adventure team.

Could this be you? Do you love making an impact through leadership and process on game development as a Producer? Are you analytically minded and get excited by Gantt charts and workflows? Can you provide efficiency wins while helping your team stay on scope? 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. 


PLEASE APPLY THROUGH OUR WEBSITE: https://deckninegames.com/careers/


Responsibilities

  • Deliver milestone schedules and meet goals
  • Build and maintain efficient processes
  • Set standards for documentation for internal and external consumption
  • Manage Jira and Confluence projects / spaces for your teams
  • Mentor and coach others across the game, including junior producers
  • Own costs and status while collaborating to prioritize stakeholder directives
  • Make decisions based on data of resources, costs, quality, and scope
  • Support studio level prioritization
  • Strong meeting facilitation and culture: agenda with action-based meetings
  • Identify risks, construct mitigation plans, and implement strategic solutions
  • Proactively engage with potential issues before they become blockers
  • Drive quality in concert with feature/product benchmarks
  • Negotiate with Publisher and 3rd parties as required throughout project life cycle
  • Proactively communicate milestone issues and / or create solutions for issues
  • Scrum Use: standups, task breakdowns, plans, retros, and reviews
  • Collaborate with Game Director and other leads to deliver game on time and on budget
  • Contribute to a creative studio culture that is positive, collaborative, and delivers quality
  • Be a passionate leader that displays poise calm through skill and attention to detail


Requirements & Skills

  • 5+ years of experience in production
  • Shipped multiple AAA PC and / or console games, especially knowledge of certification processes
  • Excellent project management skill set
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Excellent at time delegation management and personal task management
  • Establish your own priorities and solve problems
  • Remain calm and positive in the face of stress
  • Empower others through poise and precision
  • Strong knowledge of Atlassian and MS Office


Bonus Points

  • Experience with narrative or cinematic driven games
  • Worked in another discipline: programming, art, design, narrative, animation, tech, audio, cinematics, and vfx
  • Knowledge of Project Management methodologies and their tradeoffs
  • Expert Jira, Confluence, Excel
  • Workflow documentation and Gantt charts
  • CSM, CPM, CaPM, PMP or other certifications

 

 Benefits

  • Competitive salary depending on experience
  • Generous 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

 

We cannot sponsor visas.

 

Salary Range: DOE


About Deck Nine

Here at Deck Nine Games our passion is storytelling games. We are an independent game developer dedicated to crafting AAA interactive story games that inspire, transform, and entertain players. In 2021 we released Life is Strange True Colors, which went on to win multiple awards for storytelling and visuals, including best storytelling for 2021 and a VGA for Games for Impact. Recently we announced that we are developing a game for the hit sci-fi Amazon series, The Expanse. Our prior titles have won multiple awards, including Game of the Year and nominations for VGA and BAFTA awards. The studio is 150+ amazing people both located in our headquarters in sunny Westminster, Colorado and spread throughout the world permanently remote.

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.

If this sounds appealing to you, please apply now!

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