Lead Producer, Publishing (6-months Contract)

Skydance Media; Arizona; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Skydance Games, a division of Paramount, is hiring an experienced Lead Producer to join our Publishing team. You will partner with development studios and internal publishing to drive milestone delivery, keep cross-functional work aligned, and manage day-to-day execution across one or more AAA titles.

This role suits someone energized by fast-moving production environments, bringing structure and follow-through to complex, multi-team efforts.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in game production, publishing production, product management, or a related discipline with experience over a title's full lifecycle, including post-launch.
• Experience with live service titles or ongoing content pipelines.
• Comfort working across distributed teams and time zones.
• A track record partnering with both developers and internal publishing groups (Marketing, BD, QA, Research, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to manage schedules and stakeholder communication across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• A steady hand with ambiguity, and sharp instincts for spotting risk early and triaging it fast.
• Strong writing and meeting-leadership skills, with the ability to build alignment through documentation, not just conversation.
• A demonstrated ability to earn trust across a wide range of partners through clear communication and a genuine player-first lens.
• Real passion for games, with the ability to articulate what "great" looks like for a given genre.

Responsibilities

• Game & Industry Fluency— Bring real knowledge of how games get made to the table: how features and creative decisions translate into player experience, and where established workflows or delivery approaches could be sharpened.
• Judgment Under Pressure— Help plan and deliver milestones by making sure the right people have the right information at the right time. Weigh scope, schedule, and cost tradeoffs, understand what ripples downstream, and upscale risk before it compounds.
• Day-to-Day Production Leadership— Run execution for a defined set of features, workstreams, or an entire title. Help balance competing pressures of quality, time, and cost, flag risks and opportunities to leadership, and solve the daily fires that come with shipping a AAA game.
• Cross-Team Relationships— Build real working relationships across the studio and publishing organization. Get multiple disciplines rowing in the same direction, and surface misalignment or gaps before they cause delay.
• Clear Communication— Write and present updates that land with stakeholders at every level. Build the decks, milestone docs, and reports that drive decisions, not just record them.
• Player Advocacy— Keep the player experience in the room during every tradeoff conversation. Work with Research, Community, Data, and Product teams to make sure player impact shapes prioritization and stay tuned in to player sentiment throughout the title's life.
• Quality Ownership— Hold every deliverable, from early milestone builds to final polish, to a high standard. Track quality risk proactively, keep it visible across teams, and help drive resolution of known issues so the game feels solid across every platform it ships on.

Skills

Game production

Publishing production

Product management

Job description

Skydance Games, a division of Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, is building the future of franchise-driven interactive entertainment. As part of a global storytelling company defined by iconic worlds and multigenerational fandom, we see gaming not as an extension of our brands, but as one of the most powerful ways their stories come to life and evolve alongside the audiences who love them.

Through creativity, collaboration, and trust, we empower our teams to push boundaries and turn bold ideas into experiences that resonate with fans around the world.

Do you want to craft games that challenge expectations and inspire players? Come build something extraordinary with us.

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Paramount Games is hiring an experienced Lead Producer to join our Publishing team. In this role, you'll partner closely with our development studio(s) and internal publishing functions to drive milestone delivery, keep cross-functional work aligned, and manage day-to-day execution across one or more high-profile AAA titles. Reporting to the Executive Producer, you'll act as a player-first advocate, pushing features and milestones forward on time and to a high bar of quality. You'll help steer project plans, spot and manage risk before it becomes a problem, and keep every stakeholder, from development to marketing to platform partners, on the same page.

This role suits someone who's energized by fast-moving, ambitious production environments, and who brings structure and follow-through to complex, multi-team efforts.

Responsibilities

• Game & Industry Fluency— Bring real knowledge of how games get made to the table: how features and creative decisions translate into player experience, and where established workflows or delivery approaches could be sharpened.
• Judgment Under Pressure— Help plan and deliver milestones by making sure the right people have the right information at the right time. Weigh scope, schedule, and cost tradeoffs, understand what ripples downstream, and upscale risk before it compounds.
• Day-to-Day Production Leadership— Run execution for a defined set of features, workstreams, or an entire title. Help balance competing pressures of quality, time, and cost, flag risks and opportunities to leadership, and solve the daily fires that come with shipping a AAA game.
• Cross-Team Relationships— Build real working relationships across the studio and publishing organization. Get multiple disciplines rowing in the same direction, and surface misalignment or gaps before they cause delay.
• Clear Communication— Write and present updates that land with stakeholders at every level. Build the decks, milestone docs, and reports that drive decisions, not just record them.
• Player Advocacy— Keep the player experience in the room during every tradeoff conversation. Work with Research, Community, Data, and Product teams to make sure player impact shapes prioritization and stay tuned in to player sentiment throughout the title's life.
• Quality Ownership— Hold every deliverable, from early milestone builds to final polish, to a high standard. Track quality risk proactively, keep it visible across teams, and help drive resolution of known issues so the game feels solid across every platform it ships on.

Requirements

• 8+ years in game production, publishing production, product management, or a related discipline with experience over a title's full lifecycle, including post-launch.
• Experience with live service titles or ongoing content pipelines.
• Comfort working across distributed teams and time zones.
• A track record partnering with both developers and internal publishing groups (Marketing, BD, QA, Research, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to manage schedules and stakeholder communication across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• A steady hand with ambiguity, and sharp instincts for spotting risk early and triaging it fast.
• Strong writing and meeting-leadership skills, with the ability to build alignment through documentation, not just conversation.
• A demonstrated ability to earn trust across a wide range of partners through clear communication and a genuine player-first lens.
• Real passion for games, with the ability to articulate what "great" looks like for a given genre.
• Experience managing feature-level budgets or financial workflows is a plus.

Bonus points

If you have both development and publishing side production experience

The annual salary range for this position in Los Angeles is $140,000 – $180,000. The salary offered may vary based on the candidate’s location, qualifications, experience and relevant expertise, among other factors.

We realize that skills and expertise can come from many different experiences and paths, and we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements as written in the job description.

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Paramount, a Skydance Corporation is a diversified media company creating high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive/games, and animation divisions.