The Role
The Executive Producer will lead game development projects, managing schedules and budgets, resolving conflicts, assessing risks, and ensuring effective communication within the team.
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Responsibilities About the Team
- Key leader/contributor to the development team.
- Manage the schedules of multiple departments within the game team, to ensure that milestones are agreed, detailed and delivered as expected
- Create milestone content and realistic production schedules in coordination with team leads and management.
- Manage the project budget - identifying resource requirements and expectations, tracking actual project spend versus planned spend and continuously updating projections.
- Managing change – ensuring project scope is adhered to, controlling feature creep, ensuring project is delivered in accordance with expectations, and project budget changes if necessary.
- Identify and resolve conflicts between schedule, budget and design goals.
- Continuously assess risk and keep scope of the project in line with budget and schedule.
- Managing day to day communication of matters regarding schedule, budget, change and risk with the client and Development Director and making recommendations accordingly.
- Manage communication of project progress to the Development Director and internal senior management team
- Maintain close communication with team leads and provide team members with material and technical support as needed.
- Ensure that each member of the team is working from a tracked schedule and has a strong sense of ownership, responsibility and accountability for the quality and timeliness of their contribution.
- Ensure excellent communication, positive working relationships and teamwork within the development team and across disciplines.
- Coach and mentor junior production staff
- Keep abreast of current trends in the marketplace especially with regard to similar and/or competitive product.
- Shipped at least 2 successful AAA games in a production management role.
- Highly responsible, self-directed, detail oriented problem solver with a desire to contribute to a creative environment.
- Outstanding organization, communication and exceptional management skills/leadership.
- Superior attention to detail.
- Exceptional project management practices and software including Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word.
- Working knowledge of SCRUM and Agile practices.
- Work well/respond to pressure
- Communicate effectively within a large group/multiple project environment
- Think critically, and apply analytical skills in resolving complex issues
- Quickly master proprietary tools and development processes
- To take direction and criticism
- Meet deadlines designated for team projects
- Professionalism and the ability to function well within a team
- Coach and mentor junior members of staff
Founded in 2004, Virtuos is one of the largest independent video game development companies. We are headquartered in Singapore with offices in Asia, Europe, and North America. Specializing in full-cycle game development and art production, we have delivered high-quality content for more than 1,500 console, PC, and mobile games. Our clients include 23 of the top 25 gaming companies worldwide.
About Our Team
Virtuos Chengdu was the second studio ever to be founded by the Virtuos Group back in 2008. As a full-stack game development studio, it’s capable of handling all aspects of the production pipeline, from the first brief to the final product, entirely in-house. To facilitate this, the studio is staffed by a multicultural team of experts ranging from art to engineering, constantly hard at work on the biggest titles on the horizon.
The studio has come a long way from its humble beginnings to becoming one of Chengdu’s game development powerhouses, due mainly to the fact that it was one of the first to pioneer AAA game development focusing on console titles in the region.
• Work alongside industry veterans in different fields
• A multicultural crew comprising 9 different nationalities
• Contribute to the world’s biggest AAA games
• Customized training programs and regular workshops
• Group fitness, wellness activities
• Flexible working hours
• Gaming corners with consoles and canteens on every floor
• Comprehensive medical healthcare provided for all staff
• Relocation support provided
• Career and international mobility opportunities with Virtuos Internal Mobility Program
People matter. Diverse opinions and experiences matter. At Virtuos, our talented teams are the cornerstone of our success, and we recognize that fostering and advocating for inclusivity is at the center of what we do best - we make games better, together. Virtuos is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity of thought, expression, culture, and backgrounds.
Top Skills
Excel
PowerPoint
Project
Visio
Word
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What We Do
Founded in 2004, Virtuos is one of the largest independent video game development companies. We are headquartered in Singapore with offices in Asia, Europe, and North America. Specializing in full-cycle game development and art production, we have delivered high-quality content for more than 1,500 console, PC, and mobile games. Our clients include 23 of the top 25 gaming companies worldwide. Visit www.virtuosgames.com to find out how we can make games better, together.
