About the job:
This role will focus on our Live Service Games from a production perspective, managing live games, including roadmaps, scoping, dependencies, and release of content updates. You will manage Live Service Production with external development partners across a slate of multiple titles. You will take the lead as an external developer’s primary point of contact, working with developers on the creation of project and milestone schedules, as well as post-launch content update planning and overall development plans; provide ongoing management checks and balances throughout the full live operations of the title, from launch onwards.
Responsibilities- Partner with our Live Service Product Managers to ensure priorities can be executed and roadmaps are aligned
- Identify and lead game initiatives to ensure our team and developers have goals, frameworks, and priority needed to make the titles you’re responsible for successful
- Partner with business development and creative teams to ensure we are making the right decisions for our developers and members, ensuring we are on track to achieve title goals
- Feedback on, improve, and take an active part in implementing the Live Service production strategy for the portfolio including pipelines and processes
- Assist Product Managers in budget management against individual game updates and Live Service plans
- Help resolve unique, complex product issues through ingenuity, creativity, and any other means necessary to get the job done. Identify risks early and often and remove roadblocks and performance bottlenecks as needed
- Work cross-functionally to create a healthy team culture based on rich communication, transparency, and shared context
Skills and Experiences- 4+ years of Live Service production experience, preferably from mobile gaming
- 7+ years experience in game production
- Experience shipping and/or running live updates on multiple games simultaneously
- Experience working with external partners and/or at a game publisher
- Knowledge of Live Service production, the difficulties generally encountered by teams, and solutions tailored to their requirements
- Experience leading complex cross-functional projects with successful delivery of quality, schedule and in balancing scope, capacity, budget, risk, and time
- Ability to influence direction, without relying on positional authority
- You have an uncanny knack for arriving at solutions through unconventional methods and developing a plan to put them into action
- You have excellent communication and are able to work with a variety of people, effectively communicating everything from data to creative feedback
- Passion for video games, innovations in software, and how they enrich the player experience