Devoted Studios is hiring a
Game Producer

Summary

Devoted Studios is hiring a DEV Game Producer for a remote, full-time role. The job involves leading project management, maintaining high client and vendor satisfaction, integrating Agile Methodologies, developing and executing a Management strategy, and more. The position requires 5 years of experience in project management, understanding of engineering pipelines, experience with Jira, conflict mitigation and problem solving skills, and Scrum Certification.

Requirements

• 5 years minimum experience in project management
• Understanding of engineering pipelines
• Experience working with Jira
• Experience with project management and delivering to required schedules and deadlines
• Experience in game industry-standard software
• Experience in a leadership position
• Conflict mitigation and problem solving skills
• Scrum Certified
• Strong skills in Agile Methodologies
• Highly organized, proactive, and responsible
• English Level Upper-Intermediate
• Successful launch of several projects on time and within budget

Responsibilities

• Building strong, motivated, and loyal production dev team
• Illuminating inefficiencies throughout the production process to grow and support distributed asset creation
• Maintain high-level satisfaction of clients and vendors at all times
• Integration of Agile Methodologies into the production projects
• Develop and execute Management strategy
• Introduce trackable KPIs and quarterly reports on achieving those KPIs
• Maintain Devoted branding and style when sharing documents with Clients
• Lead projects management from A to Z
• Lead planning and agile sprints for the project
• Use and adopt studio's best practices, tools, templates and processes and apply them to the projects
• Manage external game production, upsell alerts
• Timely reports and transparency on production process (project status, finance reports, sprints repots, milestone delivery report, demo report, retrospectives)
• Lead external communication with the clients and vendors
• Manage and own task estimates with the team, roadmap, delivery schedule, identify and timely communicate risks, identify critical path impediments
• Own project P&L and ensure the projects are created within the estimated budget, timely alert risks
• Collaborate with the leads on the quality bar for a variety of game development disciplines
• Work with engineering production, and other disciplines to ensure a collaborative, efficient approach to the creative development of the game
• Track and maintain high satisfaction level of the clients
• Track and maintain high satisfaction level of the external teams is engaged on the project
• Lead production meetings with clients and vendors and create actionable items for the team
• Jira setup for the Project, including adding vendors and tasks
• Tempo Reports
• Timely fill in Project Efficiency Tasks, including Project Margin changes and respond to requests of Operations and Finance
• Support with scouting for new talent
• Timely rise to BD and Lead Producer any project challenges or change requests
• Ongoing communication with the vendors, maintain high spirit on the project and help resolve issues
• Keep Team informed of Schedule Changes and manage them delivering accordingly
• Scheduling and managing the projects, reporting
• Conflict mitigation and problem solving with the clients and vendors

Preferred Qualifications

• Motivation through results
• Support. We are a tribe and we only talk to each other to rise each other up
• Teamwork. The role requires exceptional communicative and leadership skills, the ability to find a compromise with the team
• Communication, negotiation, and personal skills
• Accountability
• Transparency
• Constant growth and learning

Benefits

• Strong and enthusiastic team – you will have the opportunity for knowledge sharing, learning, and professional self-development
• Interesting and challenging tasks – solve diverse and challenging issues, communicate with people within the company as well as with our partners
• Convenient working conditions – remote work, opportunity to build your own working day with flexible working hours
• A chance to work in a highly professional and dynamic team working with a wide range of International Game Production projects, attractive remuneration package, and opportunities to develop professionally