Senior Producer: AAA Game Ops & Cross‑Team Leadership

Nintendo of America Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Retro Studios, based in Austin, Texas, seeks an experienced Producer/Project Manager to lead cross-discipline teams across Environment, Lighting, VFX, design and engineering. The role focuses on defining, prioritizing, and tracking work to meet product readiness and strategic milestones.

You will coordinate sprint planning, track velocity, and communicate status while partnering with leads, stakeholders, and external groups.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in game development as a Producer or Project Manager of cross-discipline teams.
• Deeply familiar with pre-production and production phases of AAA game development
• Deeply familiar with art content pipelines and how they overlap with design and engineering disciplines.
• Deeply familiar with ShotGrid/Flow.

Responsibilities

• Support Environment, Lighting and VFX teams to define, track, and prioritize work based on product readiness, critical path needs and development priorities.
• Support cross-discipline teams and initiatives by facilitating meetings, taking notes, resolving blockers and capturing/following up on action items.
• Work with Leads, Feature Owners, Stakeholders, and dependent groups to capture, vet, organize, prioritize and track development work.
• Coordinate and run sprint and milestone planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Track team velocity and scope-versus-capacity data to improve forecast accuracy for future sprint and milestone commitments.
• Communicate high-level status (on track, at risk) and use historical data to inform strategies to hit long-term milestone goals.
• Share and refine risk mitigation strategies with Department Directors, Lead Producer and VP of Development.
• Collaborate with other producers and departments to establish and refine content pipelines and development processes.
• Coordinate with the Quality Assurance department for build deployments and build notes.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Time management

Stakeholder management

Pre-production knowledge

Tools

ShotGrid/Flow

Jira

Confluence

Excel

Miro

Job description

Retro Studios, based in Austin, Texas, seeks an experienced Producer/Project Manager to lead cross-discipline teams across Environment, Lighting, VFX, design and engineering. The role focuses on defining, prioritizing, and tracking work to meet product readiness and strategic milestones.

You will coordinate sprint planning, track velocity, and communicate status while partnering with leads, stakeholders, and external groups.