Associate Producer

The role

The Associate Producer will organize and coordinate AAA projects. This role involves developing production processes and managing day-to-day coordination across multiple disciplines.

What you will do

• Partner with the production team and discipline leads to develop and maintain specific project efforts and discipline plans
• Schedule and maintain tasking of departmental and interdisciplinary teams
• Break down large complex tasks into meaningful sub-tasks and track team progress
• Manage communication between disciplines and team members for specific project efforts
• Identify all groups that may be affected by an aspect of the project and involve them
• Help onboard new hires
• Work with Production Leadership to mentor junior members of the Production team
• Participate in internal playtests and communicate feedback to relevant stakeholders
• Work with the tools team to advance the development of production-related software
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience in game production with one or more published titles
• Experience with Microsoft Office/GSuite, and task tracking software
• Intermediate experience with spreadsheets
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills, attention to detail, process knowledge and ability to multitask
• Communication skills with both large groups and individuals, with excellent written and oral communication abilities
• Eagerness to learn new software tools and technologies

Nice to have

• AAA experience
• Working knowledge of project schedules and milestone documentation, monitoring the progress of department milestones and individual tasks against those schedules
• Knowledge of project management methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, etc
• Experience with a variety of project management tools (Jira, Shotgun, Microsoft Project, or any other scheduling/task-tracking software)

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision

Before you apply

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States
• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage

About the company

Naughty Dog is seeking an Associate Producer to play an integral role in organizing and coordinating our AAA projects.