Blackbird Interactive
Producer
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Job Description
- Req#: bb4d8a24-b03e-4d51-9df7-c93b020e08ce
- Oversee one or more cross-discipline feature teams.
- Establish and maintain team schedules, evaluating and assessing capacity on a daily basis, proactively assessing and mitigating risk.
- Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies and balance priorities.
- Partner with technical and creative leadership to ensure project vision, deliverables and goals are clear.
- Maintain regular communication with the project team and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders.
- Manage scope and quality, proactively assess and mitigate risk
- Minimum of 5 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity.
- Strong technical appreciation for software involved in the development of games, media or digital entertainment.
- Demonstrable experience of short and long term scope and capacity management.
- Proven ability to prepare mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur.
- Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.
- Experience in various project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
- Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines
- Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative team environment.
- Excellent verbal and written skills.
- University degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience in cross-platform development environments.
- At least 2 shipped AAA game projects.
- Experience with Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools.
- Lean/Agile certifications
Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.
In 2022, we announced that our studio is implementing a four-day work week as well as supporting in-studio, remote within Canada, and hybrid work arrangements as permanent options to our employees.
Do you love it when a plan comes together? Are you able to look at a problem and identify the steps that are necessary to understanding and resolving that problem? Are you an expert at cross-platform game development through the entire production cycle? Do you love rallying and motivating a team towards shared goals to build a great game?
Blackbird Interactive is seeking a Producer to support feature delivery for a large IP. You will work with a talented team, help identify their needs, and move them from the earliest days of concept and prototypes into the full production and release.
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\n$80,000 - $100,000 a year\nAbout the company
Blackbird Interactive is a Canadian video game development company based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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