Head of Production

The role

The Head of Production will lead the production discipline for AAA action-adventure games. This role involves defining delivery strategy, setting project management standards, and mentoring a team of senior managers.

What you will do

• Serve as the supervising production lens for discipline leaders.
• Drive the existing production plan for closing the current game.
• Maintain and improve the delivery strategy for the project.
• Evolve the production org structure and career development frameworks.
• Lead and develop Senior Managers and Production Leads.
• Set and uphold production standards across tooling, tracking, and milestone processes.
• Monitor project and team health and build mitigation strategies.
• Own the production headcount budget and workforce plan.
• Represent the production function in executive and publisher-facing forums.

Required qualifications

• Primary production leadership responsibility for a large-scale AAA project through the final phases from Alpha through Ship.
• Deep expertise in project management practices, milestone planning, risk mitigation, and production reporting.
• Strong operational leadership skills.
• Hands-on experience with production tools such as Jira, Perforce, Confluence, or similar.
• Exceptional team leadership and mentorship skills.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to balance creative needs with production realities.
• Calm under pressure and highly adaptable.
• At least 10+ years of experience in game production.
• 4+ years at a senior leadership or director level.
• Shipped at least one AAA title in a senior production leadership role.
• Bachelor's degree in Production, Business Administration, Project Management, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Nice to have

• Recent experience is a plus!
• Prior experience working with external publishing partners across regions and scale is a plus!
• Ideally including ownership of preproduction, polish and submission phases.
• Experience leading and mentoring a production team across multiple disciplines (design, art, engineering, narrative, audio).

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401(k) match
• flexible PTO
• supplemental life and disability

Before you apply

• If you are hired within the US, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

About the company

That's No Moon is an independent studio of storytellers and game-makers who believe in the power of narrative-driven experiences. Their shared vision is to create the future of AAA experiences with a culture of creativity, collaboration, and responsible production practices.