Game Development Producer (Temporary)

Asmodee; Roseville (MN); On-site; USD 45,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Fantasy Flight Games is seeking a temporary Game Development Producer to coordinate projects across its game development teams, from concept to completion. You will create and maintain project schedules, lead playtesting, gather feedback, and ensure on-time delivery within budget and scope.

You will collaborate with game designers, artists, and external designers, manage budgets, prepare vision documents, and communicate project needs across the studio and licensors.

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Proficient in word processing applications (e.g., MS Word), spreadsheet applications (e.g., MS Excel).
• Familiar with Project Management software, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Experience with hobby games a plus.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and adapt to a changing landscape.
• Able to travel up to 10% of the time; sometimes with very little notice.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects and their teams simultaneously and clearly communicate status to management.
• Coordinate and manage daily project meetings with various teams.
• Work closely with game designers, graphic designers, art directors, and others to meet deadlines while reaching full potential.
• Ensure budgets for assigned projects are within defined specifications.
• Create/maintain a vision document for the project and ensure alignment with budget and IP.
• Investigate feasibility of game design ideas related to production and manufacturing.
• Ensure sufficient project milestones are in place to meet planned deadlines.
• Provide documentation to other creative departments detailing required elements.
• Communicate and deliver project needs to multiple teams across the studio, publisher, licensors.
• Lead internal and external playtesting, collect feedback, and improve balance and usability.
• Collaborate with sculpting to ensure components are delivered to production.
• Prepare and submit files for final approval and relay feedback to the team.
• Manage and organize project files on a shared server for easy access.
• Create final, print-ready game product layouts using Adobe InDesign.
• Other tasks and assignments as directed by management.

Skills

Strong communication

Organizational skills

Leadership

MS Word

MS Excel

Project management software

Adobe InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Experience with hobby games

Travel up to 10%

Tools

AdobeInDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

MS Word

MS Excel

Job description

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Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a pioneering publisher of hobby board and card games, including trademarked Living Card Games®. Established in 1995, FFG has earned a reputation for its epic themes, immersive gameplay, and top-level components. Many of FFG’s most popular titles are based on beloved licenses such as Star Wars™, Marvel, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. In addition, FFG has its own iconic universes such as Arkham Horror Files, Terrinoth Legends, and Twilight Imperium. Throughout the course of the studio’s rich history, FFG has published games in over thirty languages and distributed to more than fifty territories. Fantasy Flight Games is a subsidiary of Paris-based Asmodee Group, a leading global publisher of tabletop games.

Job Summary

The temporary Game Development Producer role coordinatesprojects forFFG’svariousgame development teams, while providing development support to the design teams they engage with. They are the hub of their projects and work with multiple people every day. The main responsibility of this position is to manage projects through development, overseeing them from concept to completion. This includes creating and maintaining project schedules and visions, leading playtesting and gathering player feedback, and engaging with a multitude of teams to ensure team awareness and on-time delivery of project milestones. The overarching goal of these activities being to continuously refine the project into one that is balanced, engaging, and within the budget and overall scope of the project.

What will your role involve

• Manage multiple projects and their teams simultaneously and be able to clearly communicate their status to management.
• Coordinate and manage daily project meetings with various teams.
• Work closely with game designers, graphic designers, art directors, and others to ensure each project meets its deadlines while reaching its full potential.
• Ensure that budgets for assigned projects are within defined specifications.
• Work with Design Lead and External Designer to create/maintain a vision document for the project. Ensure final game products are aligned with that vision and the project’s budget, as well as the intellectual property involved when applicable.
• Investigate the feasibility of game design ideasinsofar asto how they mightimpactproduction and/or manufacturing.
• Ensure that sufficient project milestones are in place to meet planned deadlines.
• Provide documentation to other creative departments (Art, Graphic Design, Sculpting, etc.) using defined document procedures to detail what elements are required to support the game design and content.
• Communicateanddeliverprojectneeds tomultiple teams across the studio and publisher, as well as licensors and other parties when applicable.
• Lead internal and external playtesting by providing all necessary test components, answering questions, collecting feedback, and analyzing it to improve the balance and usability of the game’s design, rules, and content.
• Collaborate with sculpting department staff to ensure the game’s plastic components are delivered to the Plastic Production team.
• Investigate the feasibility of game design ideasinsofar asto how they mightimpactproduction and/or manufacturing.
• Prepare andsubmitfiles for final approval, relaying approval feedback to the rest of the team.
• Manage and organize all project files on a shared server so that others can easily find all files associated with a given project.
• Create final, print-ready game product layouts using Adobe InDesign.
• Other tasks and assignments as directed by management.

What do you bring

Position Skills & Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Strong leadership skills
• Proficient in word processing applications (e.g., MS Word), spreadsheet applications (e.g.,MSExcel)
• Familiar with Project Management software, AdobeinDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Experience with hobbygamesa plus.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and adapt to a changing landscape.
• Able to travel up to 10% of the time; sometimes withvery littlenotice.

Knowledge & Experience Requirements

• One to three years of experience in project management, technical writing, desktop publishing, or related experience.
• Prior experience in tabletop, video game, or board game production is a plus.

Hesitant to apply because you don’t have all the experience or qualifications listed? Let us decide! The right candidate doesn’t always match up perfectly on paper. We believe that diverse perspectives and experiences bring fresh ideas and innovation to our team. If you’re passionate about this role and believe your unique background and skills could contribute to our mission, we’d love to hear from you!

Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, market conditions and specific work location. Base Houly Rate Range: $33.00-$35.00.

Our Commitment

asmodee’s purpose is Bringing People Together. To us that means all kinds of people, no matter their perceived differences.

We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels empowered to show up as their full and authentic selves. We seek to support our diverse community of players by creating representative gaming experiences that celebrate a variety of backgrounds, skills, and views. Diversity and Inclusion fuels our creativity and promotes internal and external equity which allows us to continue in our efforts to bring people together around the game table. Games are for everyone.