Senior Producer

📋 Description

• **Role Overview**

• **This position primarily focuses on translating the studio's creative vision and strategic direction into consistent, coordinated delivery across all currently developed games.**

• You are responsible for the success of delivery, production efficiency, and sustainable execution of the studio's portfolio. Collaborating closely with the Studio Head/Creative Director, you will grasp the creative vision, quality expectations, and strategic priorities. You ensure that teams remain focused, aligned, and coordinated while promptly escalating risks, resource shortages, and opportunities to facilitate informed decisions that maintain momentum. You advocate for and uphold the creative intent during execution, ensuring that the final product aligns with the original vision.

• Your role combines production leadership with project oversight and team management. Your success is evaluated based on timely game releases meeting the required quality standards, maintaining healthy and effective teams, appropriate resource allocation, transparency of delivery risks, and the studio's capacity to support parallel game development without compromising quality or team wellbeing.

• **Key Responsibilities**

• **1 - Production Planning & Delivery Strategy**

• You take charge of the studio's overarching production strategy, ensuring that all games progress reliably with clear goals, timelines, milestones, and quality checkpoints. You convert the creative vision and strategic priorities into a cohesive delivery roadmap that reflects the Studio Head/Creative Director's creative intent during execution.

• You collaborate with each game team to eliminate obstacles and ensure that delivery plans are realistic and aligned. You facilitate decision-making that balances creative ambition with sustainable delivery.

• **Success looks like:**

• - A clearly defined delivery roadmap with attainable timelines and milestones

• - Teams operating with well-defined goals and a comprehensive understanding of delivery timelines

• - Delivery plans that consider shared resources and interdependencies among games

• - Games launching on time while achieving an 85%+ player satisfaction quality standard

• - Identification of trade-off options when conflicts arise regarding scope, cost, timeline, or quality

• - Promoting alignment between the Studio Head/Creative Director and execution teams

• **2 - Team Management & Sustainable Delivery**

• You ensure that teams are structured, organized, and well-supported, working with discipline leads to keep their teams on track, ensuring communication is clear and consistent, while effectively supporting the broader team. You maintain a comprehensive view of personnel deployment, facilitating smooth collaboration and sustainable delivery. You work closely with teams to pinpoint needs, address constraints, and adapt as priorities evolve.

• You actively encourage individual growth and development, assisting team members in skill-building over time, thereby strengthening the overall team. You coordinate with external contractors and partners as necessary to enhance capacity during peak periods, ensuring that delivery standards are met without compromising team wellbeing or focus.

• **Success looks like:**

• - Clear visibility of team structure and personnel allocation

• - Balanced workloads that prevent prolonged over-allocation

• - Smooth transitions of team members between projects as priorities change

• - Effective coordination of external partners (art, audio, localization, etc.)

• - Teams equipped with the necessary tools, software, and licenses

• - Teams that are focused, engaged, and functioning at a sustainable pace

• - Consistent production practices that promote efficiency across the studio

• - Fostering professional development, contributing to stronger teams over time

• **3 - Reporting, Communication & Risk Management**

• You provide the Studio Head/Creative Director and the Publisher with clear and timely updates on production status, risks that may affect delivery or quality, budget requirements, and advance notice of decisions requiring studio-level, Publisher, or Skeleton Crew input.

• You facilitate communication between the Studio Head/Creative Director and the leadership teams of each game to ensure alignment and minimize surprises.

• **Success looks like:**

• - Concise weekly reports highlighting progress, risks, and required decisions

• - Early identification and escalation of risks with mitigation or trade-off options

• - Proactive communication regarding delays, scope and budget changes, or quality concerns

• - A culture of transparency where obstacles, challenges, and failures are perceived positively

• - Confidence from the Studio Head/Creative Director in production data and decision-making

• **What This Role Is Not**

• This position does not manage an individual game's profit and loss.

• This role is not focused on creative or design leadership. Creative direction, visionsetting, and design decisions are the responsibilities of the Studio Head/Creative Director and Designers.

⛳️ Requirements

• **Overall Measure of Success**

• - The studio delivers consistently across production, team operations, and communication

• - The leadership team in the studio is aligned and feels well supported

• - Teams are healthy, aligned, motivated, and operating sustainably

• - Risks and delivery issues are identified early and managed effectively

• - The Studio Head/Creative Director and Publisher have visibility and confidence in delivery

• - The studio successfully manages multiple games in parallel without compromising quality or focus

🏝️ Benefits

• Our benefits include a 2-week company summer break and a 2-week winter break for rest and rejuvenation, in addition to your standard holiday allowance.