Remote Game Producer: Lead Cross-Disciplinary Projects

Pipeworks, Inc.; Eugene (OR); Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

401K with employer match

Employer Paid Life Insurance Policy

Paid Time Off

18-20 Paid Company Holidays

Relocation

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Fitness Club Discounts

Sports Team Sponsorship

Annual Company Events

Project Wrap Parties

Job summary

Pipeworks Studios in Eugene, Oregon seeks a Producer I or II to lead cross-discipline teams on one or more projects and act as the central point of contact between clients, studio leadership, the project team, and all stakeholders. This role coordinates development to deliver on-time, on-budget, and with quality.

This full-time temporary position may extend or convert to regular full-time after six months. Remote, hybrid, or in-office arrangements are supported to suit the team.

Qualifications

• Exceptional project management practices and software expertise.
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Proactive and collaborative communication skills.
• Detail-oriented and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with Unity, Unreal, or other game engines.
• Experience managing game development projects from concept to live ops.
• Proficient with task-tracking and PM software.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary point-of-contact for customer stakeholder(s).
• Identifies and manages against project success goals.
• Collaborates with studio leadership and finance to align strategic goals and tactical measures.
• Project-related software and equipment procurement.
• External development resource procurement. Owns outsourcing contract planning, negotiation, and management.
• Own the estimation, budgeting, and planning, prioritization, and scheduling of tasks related to the development of software projects, from concept to release and live operations.
• Track resource allocation, expenditures, project schedules and budgets against contractual commitments.
• Project financial tracking and reporting.
• Identify critical path risks and issues and responses, develop and implement mitigation plans as necessary. Drive risk action plan results.
• Identify, drive implementation, and improve project development pipeline and workflow.
• Provide regular project status and financial reports, communicate progress and risk to studio leadership.
• Provide clear project vision, goals, and objectives to project team and stakeholders.
• Facilitate communication and coordination for internal and external project resources to eliminate roadblocks and ensure successful SOW completion.
• Work with project team and QA to manage bug assignment, priority-setting, and progress towards resolution.
• Complete project retrospectives/post mortems.
• Provide project demos, interviews as needed.
• Effective contributions to department process and best practices.

Skills

Project management

Financial acumen

Proactive communication

Detail-oriented

Team collaboration

Unity/Unreal experience

Task-tracking software

Live operations

PMI PMP Certification

Job description

Pipeworks Studios in Eugene, Oregon seeks a Producer I or II to lead cross-discipline teams on one or more projects and act as the central point of contact between clients, studio leadership, the project team, and all stakeholders. This role coordinates development to deliver on-time, on-budget, and with quality.

This full-time temporary position may extend or convert to regular full-time after six months. Remote, hybrid, or in-office arrangements are supported to suit the team.