Associate Producer

Summary

Join 1047 Games, a remote company known for creating Splitgate, as a passionate Associate Producer. You will be responsible for maintaining team tasks and scheduling, managing change requests, identifying improvement opportunities, and building effective project management processes. This role requires 3+ years of experience in AAA game project management, expertise with production tools, and knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies. A formal education or certification in project management is highly preferred. The ideal candidate is passionate about gaming, a hard worker, and comfortable with ambiguity and constant change.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience as a project manager, with experience in shipping AAA games
• Excellent change management skills, i.e., comfortable with ambiguity and constant change, yet able to set priorities and work commitments
• Have passion, energy, enthusiasm to achieve results
• Self-reflective; acknowledge own experience and experiences of others
• Expertise with Production tools, including JIRA, Confluence, or similar task tracking solutions
• Knowledge and experience in Agile and Waterfall development practices
• Proficient understanding of various project management methodologies
• Organizational skills and ability to execute on projects on time, and at the expected level of quality
• A good understanding of various disciplines that go into game development such as programming, art, design and audio

Responsibilities

• Maintain team tasks and scheduling to ensure delivery of features and content
• Help with tracking, capacity planning, and prioritization of work
• Manage change requests and advise stakeholders on their effect, budget and resourcing
• Identify opportunities for improvement and collaborate with others to find creative solutions
• Help build, improve, and drive processes across our project management tools; planning, scope/capacity tracking, tool and plugin testing, and establishing best practices
• Build and maintain an effective working schedule to ensure that project development milestones are delivered on time
• Keep the development team informed of project goals, schedule, status and deliverables
• Identify, assess, and prioritize risks followed by a coordinated application of resources to minimize and manage risks
• Work with the project leadership team to establish the strategy to meet milestones and important deliverables
• Working on roadmap planning with dev leads, and aligning with team leadership to establish time and targets

Preferred Qualifications

• Formal education or professional certification related to project management
• People management experience in career growth & skills development