Senior Producer

The role

A Senior Producer will lead end-to-end production for game projects, features, or development teams. This role involves partnering with leadership to translate game vision into development plans and managing external partners.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end production for one or more game projects, features, or development teams.
• Partner with creative, technical and production leadership to translate the game's vision into actionable development plans.
• Establish, contribute to and maintain project roadmaps, milestones, schedules, dependencies, and priorities.
• Review and approve milestones for externally developed projects.
• Coordinate work across multiple disciplines and ensure teams have the information and resources they need.
• Identify risks, dependencies, bottlenecks, and resource constraints.
• Provide leadership with clear, concise verbal and written reporting on team and feature progress, risks, and key decisions.
• Identify and vet co-development partners for specific project engagements.
• Manage key relationships on the project, including development partners and publishers.
• Coach and mentor individuals to establish expectations and build on strengths.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional game development experience in a production or project management capacity on internal game teams and/or overseeing external work-for-hire or co-dev partners.
• Experience shipping at least 3+ PC or Console games in a senior production or leadership role.
• Experience with at least one full game dev lifecycle from start, through launch, to live support.
• Experience identifying and vetting external partners and working with those partners in a project oversight capacity.
• Experience with milestone setting and review, risk tracking, and working with internal legal and biz dev on contract setup and statement of work.
• Deep understanding of project management methodologies and game development process.
• Excellent situational awareness and judgment.
• Strong desire to coach and grow individual contributors and teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Strong relationship skills to manage up and down, internally and with external partners.
• Ability to lead and empower teams towards a set of shared and agreed upon goals.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi platform development, including consoles, mobile and VR
• Experience with Early Access, multiplayer, live service, cross-platform games
• Experience owning production for an entire game or major game feature
• Familiarity and experience with console certification and platform requirements for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, and PC (Steam and Epic)
• Experience working on Licensed products

Benefits

• annual professional development
• home office stipends
• paid time off for volunteer/non-profit work

About the company

Unknown Worlds is a growing and innovative studio that makes games that are accessible and engaging for players all over the world.