Senior Producer

People Can Fly; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

• Facilitating and improving internal development processes
• Collaborating with Leads and Directors to manage production of features in our game
• Managing development teams and advocating their needs
• Working with other Producers to create realistic schedules and mitigate risks/blockers
• Working with internal groups during the development process and communicating with the publisher and external vendors
• Managing cross-disciplined development teams and advocating their needs
• Working with other Producers to create realistic schedules, identify dependencies and align on priorities
• Identifying any potential risks with multiple solutions and understanding pros and cons of each option. Clearly presenting the options to production lead

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in a production role in the gaming industry (or 7y in IT/3D Animation)
• At least one AAA multi-platform title shipped as a Producer
• Experience in managing multiple teams of at least 20+ people.
• Exceptional project management and leadership skills
• Great presentation skills to all audience levels
• Deep Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall software development methodologies.
• Good knowledge of rights and licensing
• Strong negotiation skills together with advanced problem solving and organizational skills.
• Excellent teamwork, focus on driving excellent working relationships throughout the team
• Ability to work effectively and efficiently with people with different specializations and backgrounds
• Understanding of end-user needs and expectations at all levels
• High work ethic and self-motivated.
• Passion for Games.
• Proven experience with Jira and Confluence
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
• Advanced Scheduling Experience
• Advanced Agile /PM Methodologies Experience
• Multi-discipline feature dev experience (end to end) Management of multiple producers, up to 3 50-75 people 3+ years experience managing relationships with stakeholders, clients, and/or customers.
• Understanding the big picture / being able to liaise between the teams and work towards the greater good / ability to understand the high-level priorities.
• Ability to create a production plan/schedule and to execute it along those assumptions.
• Has completed a product cycle at this level.

Company Description

People Can Fly is one of the leading independent AAA games development studios with an international team of hundreds of talented individuals working from offices located in Poland, UK, Ireland, US, and Canada and from all over the world thanks to our remote work programs.

Founded in 2002, we made our mark on the shooter genre with titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders. We are one of the most experienced Unreal Engine studios in the industry and we are expanding it with in-house solutions called PCF Framework.

Our creative teams are currently working on several exciting titles: Gemini is our new project being developed with Square Enix; Gears of War: E-Day is a Triple-A game developed in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation. We are also busy working on a VR and undisclosed projects, more information on those to come later.

With over 20 years of experience, PCF sets out to explore new horizons. We aim to combine our expertise with the creativity of the best and most forward-thinking talents in the industry to work together on the new generation of action games for the global gaming community.