Description
Deck Nine Games is currently hiring a 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. This is a
full-time, remote position and a multi-year project with a team of 80+
developers.
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: 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 100+ 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.