Do you love it when a plan comes together? Are you able to look at a problem and identify the steps that are necessary to understanding and resolving that problem? Are you an expert at cross-platform game development through the entire production cycle? Do you love rallying and motivating a team towards shared goals to build a great game?
Blackbird Interactive is seeking a Senior Producer to support the delivery of an exciting IP. You will work with talented internal and external teams, help identify their needs, and move them through all project phases, including post-launch.
Responsibilities
Oversee projects, or one or more complex cross-discipline feature teams
Establish and maintain team and product roadmaps, evaluating and assessing capacity on a daily basis, proactively assessing and mitigating risk
Partner with Product Owners and Stakeholders to establish feature goals and deliver features on time
Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies and balance priorities
Partner with the technical and creative leadership teams to ensure project vision, deliverables and goals are met
Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve
Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners
Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members.
Manage direct reports and support career growth
Establish and maintain regular communication channels with other feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders
Champion effective production processes, identify opportunities to improve processes that will increase quality and efficiency, and help shape the evolution of production practices across the team.
Requirements
Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects
Is a steady and practiced hand at steering a game’s production through the different stages of development
Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project
Strategic thinker with high proficiency in various project management methodologies, who knows when to apply which methodologies to drive toward effective outcomes
Experience working directly and successfully with external and publisher stakeholders
Demonstrable experience of short and long term scope and capacity management
Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.
Experience in various project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines
Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment
Excellent verbal and written skills.
Pluses
University degree or equivalent professional experience.
Experience in cross-platform development environments
At least 2 shipped AAA game projects
Experience with AzureDevOps, Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools
Project management certifications.
Skills Required
- Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects
- Proven ability to steer a game's production through different stages of development
- Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project
- Strategic thinker with high proficiency in various project management methodologies and when to apply them
- Experience working directly and successfully with external and publisher stakeholders
- Demonstrable experience of short and long term scope and capacity management
- Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development
- Experience in various project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
- Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines; excellent verbal and written skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment
What We Do
Blackbird Interactive (BBI) is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent studio - behind such games as Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and the upcoming Homeworld 3, Minecraft Legends, and Crossfire: Legion. Founded by Rob Cunningham, Yossarian King, and Aaron Kambeitz in 2010, the award-winning Vancouver studio boast its own internal CG cinematics department, led by the founder of Pixar Canada, and has also been involved in various game-adjacent projects over the years - such as Project Eagle with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other initiatives with the eatART Foundation and Sanctuary AI.
