Associate Producer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Malaysia, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Assist the Producer or Lead Producer in organizing, coordinating, and delivering the designated development project.

• Aid the team in achieving a high-quality product within the set timeline, budget, and scope.

• Contribute to the organization, execution, and monitoring of project activities across various development areas.

• Create, maintain, and oversee development schedules, task boards, project documentation, and production reports.

• Monitor progress against established milestones and follow up with team members regarding pending tasks, dependencies, and deliverables.

• Facilitate and lead regular team or sub-team meetings, ensuring that actions and decisions are accurately documented and communicated.

• Foster effective communication among development disciplines, project leadership, clients, and other business stakeholders.

• Assist in the preparation, review, and submission of milestone deliverables to both clients and internal management.

• Identify production risks, blockers, and resource constraints, escalating them to the relevant stakeholders.

• Aid in removing obstacles affecting the development team and support the resolution of cross-discipline dependencies.

• Collaborate with team leads to set clear priorities, goals, and expectations.

• Monitor team capacity, workload, and productivity, highlighting potential issues before they impact delivery.

• Support the onboarding and integration of new team members.

• Contribute to retrospectives, project reviews, and ongoing improvements in production processes.

• Keep project information accurate and up-to-date within the relevant production and project-management tools.

• Encourage open communication, collaboration, and a positive working atmosphere within the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in project coordination, production, project management, or team coordination.

• Prior experience in supporting or coordinating a PC, console, or live-operations game project is preferred.

• Excellent organizational and time-management skills, capable of managing multiple priorities and deadlines.

• Proficient in productivity and project-management tools such as Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Jira, Hansoft, Confluence, or Microsoft Project.

• Competent in preparing and maintaining schedules, task trackers, meeting notes, status reports, and other production documentation.

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.

• Comfortable collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across areas such as art, design, engineering, QA, and audio.

• Capable of identifying potential risks, dependencies, and problem areas and escalating them to the appropriate stakeholders.

• Proactive, adaptable, and effective in a fast-paced development environment.

• Able to balance quality, scope, schedule, cost, and team considerations when supporting production decisions.

• Capable of working independently while maintaining regular communication with project leadership.

• Demonstrates a collaborative and supportive approach when working with team members and stakeholders.

• Passionate about video games with a solid understanding of the PC and console gaming market.

• Nice to Have: Experience in Scrum, Agile or other iterative project-management methodologies, SAFe or another scaled Agile framework, Live Operations or post-launch content delivery, PC and console game development, console certification and submission processes, co-development or work-for-hire projects, working with distributed or international development teams, client-facing project coordination, supporting external development partners or vendors, relevant project-management training or certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Only candidates with relevant working rights for Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia will be considered. Sponsorship and relocation are not included in this package.

• Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Commitment: Keywords Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applicants for all positions without discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you need any adjustments during the application process, please inform us. We are dedicated to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. We particularly encourage applications from candidates belonging to underrepresented groups in the industry.

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