Santa Monica Studio is seeking an experienced producer for the development of a new unannounced title!
Responsibilities:
Manage Production Areas
- Facilitate development efforts to keep product development on schedule, at quality, and within budget
- Develop and maintain project schedules, triage day-to-day production issues
- Ensure regular and effective communication between tea
Proactively Seek Resolution
- Breakdown and prioritize work for teams, identify problems and propose solutions, and provide data-driven impact analysis
- Ensure stakeholders have proper visibility into development and are informed of any changes that may impact their teams
Support Product Development Needs
- Maintain and improve relationships between narrative, audio, and production teams
- Facilitate communication between writers and editors to ensure narrative consistency
- Partner with team managers to help provide team assignments which support career growth
- Support retrospective discussions to refine VO and Writing production workflows for future phases
Skills:
Project Management / Production
- Proven experience producing high-performing teams
- Excellent organizational & prioritization skills, attention to detail
- Self-starter, you approach challenges creatively and methodically, seeing them through to final resolution
- Comfortable with ambiguity and iteration
Communication & Collaboration
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills – able to communicate effectively across product development and management teams
- Adapts quickly to changing project priorities and emergent needs
Industry
- Knowledgeable of VO and narrative production pipelines for AAA games
- Up to date on current industry trends, staying current on new production methodologies
- Must love games and have a passion for crafting them
Education & Experience:
- 5+ years of VO and / or Writing production experience in a AAA game development environment
- Shipped a game as a producer overseeing VO
- Familiarity with traditional waterfall production management techniques and Agile techniques, including SCRUM and Kanban
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Perforce, and Microsoft Office (Excel)
