Lead Producer - Game Operations | Fully Remote

Escape Velocity Entertainment; United States; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO (Paid Time Off)

Holiday closures

Private Medical & Dental

Mental Health scheme

Wellbeing allowance

Studio Bonus

Top range tech for home setup

Region-based benefits

Job summary

Escape Velocity Entertainment is seeking a seasoned Lead Producer to steer the development of our new IP. This senior role guides production, schedules, budgets, and coordination across internal and external teams to deliver a major new title.

You will partner with creative leaders, mentor producers, and ensure alignment from milestone to milestone. The position is fully remote with teams spanning multiple locations, offering autonomy and a dynamic, fast-paced studio culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in internal game development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience building and leading teams across multiple locations.
• Experience building AAA Games.
• Comfortable guiding and leading staff across production and creative disciplines.
• Excellent communicator and emotionally intelligent leader.
• Ability to interface with all levels of the organization.
• JIRA and Confluence expertise with metrics to drive improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage internal and external teams across multiple locations to meet schedules.
• Support strategic and tactical operations of Release Management, Dev Ops, Live Ops, and Technical Art.
• Understand software release frameworks, merges, fixes, builds and releases to public.
• Work with Producers to develop product budgets and schedules.
• Partner with Executive Producer to ensure core development processes are adhered to.
• Mentor producers at all levels and support their growth and career development.
• Set coherent goals for the team from milestone to milestone and ensure execution.
• Coordinate and assist with focus testing, outsourcing and other external parties.

Skills

Game development

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

What we are looking for

We are looking for a seasoned Lead Producer to lead the development of our new IP. This role will play a vital part in the successful delivery of a major new title. The ideal candidate will have experience at the highest levels of project leadership, building new IP, growing teams, and supporting the creative leaders in the realization of their vision.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a seasoned Lead Producer to lead the development of our new IP. This role will play a vital part in the successful delivery of a major new title. The ideal candidate will have experience at the highest levels of project leadership, building new IP, growing teams, and supporting the creative leaders in the realization of their vision.

What we will do together

• Manage internal and external teams across multiple locations to meet production schedules and deliver the project to quality, time, and budget expectations.
• Support the strategic and tactical operations of the Release Management, Dev Ops, Live Ops, Technical Art, and other technical groups.
• Have a strong technical understanding of software release frameworks including merge & branching strategy, bug fixing and locking builds, finalizing builds and releasing them to the public.
• Work closely with Producers to develop product budgets and schedules across the team.
• Partner with the Executive Producer to ensure core development processes are adhered to with consistency.
• Mentor producers at all levels of the team, taking a keen interest in their growth and career development.
• Ensure that coherent goals are set for the team from milestone to milestone, and that they are understood and executed upon.
• Coordinate and assist with focus testing, outsourcing and other external parties as required.

What you will bring

• 10+ years in internal game development.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience with strong applied technical knowledge.
• Experience building and leading teams across multiple locations.
• Experience building AAA Games.
• Comfortable guiding and leading staff across both production and creative disciplines, ensuring there is a healthy level of push and pull.
• An excellent communicator and emotionally intelligent leader capable of rallying a team.
• A calm and stable voice capable of managing complex problems with a cool head.
• Ability to interface with all levels of the organization.
• Resourceful, self-motivated, and capable of acting autonomously.
• Capable of balancing production and creative needs in support of making informed decisions.
• Ability to identify and analyse risk while providing mitigation.
• JIRA and Confluence expertise, with experience using metrics to drive improvement.

Interested… a bit about Escape Velocity

Escape Velocity is a team of passionate, talented developers working at a studio that offers excellent benefits, on what we believe is a once-in-a-career project with a committed publisher. But that doesn’t necessarily make us unique. What does make us special? We value the time, energy, and talent of our players and our colleagues. We want every hour spent developing and playing our games to be an incredibly rewarding and worthwhile use of your time. To that end, we are 'Fully Remote' and support team members nearly anywhere in the world. We prioritize honesty, even when that means sharing bad news. We strive to give everyone autonomy so they can determine how best to work and play, and we care more about what you bring to the game and studio than how many hours you're clocking. We're dedicated to building a culture of play, which not only makes us better game makers, but also strengthens the bonds between us all. We believe in constant improvement across all areas - from the game itself to our production design - and are constantly re-evaluating how we spend our time to ensure that we're not wasting yours and we're all always working on the most important things.

A few benefits you can expect from us

• A generous PTO allowance
• Summer and Winter holidays studio closure (separate to PTO allowance)
• Private Medical & Dental Healthcare
• Private Mental Health scheme
• A generous annual Health & Wellbeing allowance
• Discretionary Studio Bonus
• Top range tech for your home set up
• Other benefits based on your region

Escape Velocity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to hiring, promoting, and compensating employees based on their qualifications and demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities.

Applications will be considered regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.