The Role
The Executive Producer leads AAA game productions, managing project scopes, teams, and client relationships to achieve quality outcomes.
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ABOUT THE POSITION
As our studio continues to expand and the scope of our productions grows, we are looking for an Executive Producer to lead large-scale AAA projects across multiple Virtuos studios and disciplines.
The Executive Producer is responsible for driving the successful delivery of complex game productions by aligning product vision, production execution, business objectives, and player expectations across teams, clients, and stakeholders.
This role combines strategic leadership with strong operational execution. The ideal candidate is an experienced production leader with deep knowledge of AAA game development, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams through ambitious creative and technical challenges.
Responsibilities1. Project & Production Leadership
- Lead large-scale AAA projects across multiple studios, disciplines, and external partners.
- Drive the successful execution of the project from pre-production to final delivery.
- Define, validate, and oversee project scope, milestones, schedules, budgets, and deliverables in collaboration with Development Directors and Discipline Leads.
- Ensure production plans are realistic, tracked, and aligned with project goals and client expectations.
- Monitor production progress and proactively identify production bottlenecks, dependencies, and risks.
- Manage scope changes, feature creep, production escalations, and mitigation plans while maintaining alignment with quality, timeline, and budget objectives.
- Ensure milestone deliveries meet expected standards of quality, stability, and performance.
2. Product Vision & Player Experience
- Ensure a compelling and consistent product vision is shared across teams, stakeholders, and clients.
- Advocate for player experience and product quality in production and creative decisions.
- Collaborate closely with Design, Art, Engineering, QA, and Production teams to support the creation of high-quality game experiences.
- Assess market trends, player expectations, and competitive benchmarks to help align production priorities with business and product objectives.
3. Client & stakeholder management
- Build trusted relationships with clients, internal stakeholders, and studio leadership.
- Act as a key point of escalation and alignment between Virtuos studios, external partners, and clients.
- Communicate clearly and proactively on project status, risks, priorities, schedules, scope, and budget.
- Understand contract parameters and collaborate with Business Development and Sales teams on proposal development, staffing strategies, and scope management.
- Contribute to building long-term partnerships with clients and strategic partners.
Core competencies
- Project Management
- Production Leadership
- Team Leadership & People Management
- Client & Stakeholder Management
- Communication & Alignment
- Risk & Scope Management
- AAA Game Development Knowledge
- Product Vision & Player Focus
- Financial & Business Acumen
- Shipped at least 2 AAA titles in a Senior Production, Lead Production, or Executive Production role.
- Extensive experience managing large-scale game productions across multiple teams and locations.
- Strong understanding of AAA game development pipelines, workflows, and dependencies across Design, Art, Engineering, QA, and Production.
- Proven leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams in complex production environments.
- Strong knowledge of production methodologies including Agile and Scrum.
- Experience with production management tools such as Jira, Handsoft, Excel, PowerPoint, and related tracking tools.
- Strong understanding of risk management, scope management, budgeting, and production forecasting.
- Previous co-development, outsourcing, or porting experience is highly valued.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to make decisions in fast-paced environments.
- Ability to balance creative ambition, production realities, player expectations, and business constraints.
- Fluent English required.
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
Founded in 2010 and later acquired by Virtuos in 2017, our Paris studio is located within the lush confines of Parc Saint-Christophe in Cergy – close to the city center of Paris and easily reachable by public transport.
Our studio has a full suite of capabilities to undertake projects of varying scopes, including co-developments, adaptations, and remasters of AAA games. A great example of this is our recently launched homemade game, Mahokenshi, which was released in January 2023.
Virtuos Paris houses a team of experts from technical artists and game designers to engineers. Our Paris studio takes pride in its engineering team’s depth of experience, which has been providing its rich expertise in re-engineering and adaptation, as well as in gameplay mandates to our global partners to bring some of the world’s top AAA games to life.
• Work at Virtuos Paris studio, close to the city center of Paris - the iconic capital of France
• Contribute to the world’s biggest AAA titles in gaming
• End-of-project celebrations, teambuilding outings, and studio bonding activities
• Gaming corners with consoles and a common area
• Comprehensive medical healthcare provided for all staff
• Remote work is possible
• Relocation support
• 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.
Skills Required
- Shipped at least 2 AAA titles in a Senior Production, Lead Production, or Executive Production role
- Extensive experience managing large-scale game productions across multiple teams and locations
- Strong understanding of AAA game development pipelines and workflows
- Proven leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams
- Strong knowledge of production methodologies including Agile and Scrum
- Experience with production management tools such as Jira, Handsoft, Excel, PowerPoint
- Strong understanding of risk and scope management, budgeting, and production forecasting
- Previous co-development, outsourcing, or porting experience
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong problem-solving mindset and decision-making ability in fast-paced environments
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The Company
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.
