Social Production Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of producers within your game area to create robust production plans and execute against those plans, adjusting to the changing needs of the project over time
• Understand overall project goals and use those to inform planning and decisions in your areas of ownership
• Identify and collaborate with other discipline leads to mitigate risks within your areas of ownership, ensuring that the team has the space to create something amazing while staying on a path toward ship
• Manage and direct producers within your development group, collaborate with them to define near-term goals, mentor them regarding project or people challenges, and support them in achieving career objectives
• Produce the Leadership Team for your area including scheduling and running rituals, tracking risks, etc
• Establish production pipelines and processes for your areas of ownership
• Iterate on production processes over time to continuously improve our collaboration, transparency, and velocity
• Lead by example, demonstrating production best practices and subject matter expertise within your area
• Directly produce feature teams within your area as needed
• Collaborate with Executive Producer and other producers to align production plans across all areas of development
• Assist the Executive Producer in managing production budgets, including both staff headcount and development budget

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven internal game development experience in a production leadership role, including experience producing creative teams
• Exemplary communication skills, outstanding analytical skills, and attention to detail
• Social intelligence, great interpersonal skills, and empathy for creative teams
• Strong critical thinking skills, results oriented, focused and composed under pressure
• Understanding of agile ways of working and a proven track record of applying agile concepts and practices
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity, including effectively leading a team despite that ambiguity
• Demonstrable product acumen to inform subjective product opinions
• Commitment to the principles of servant leadership
• Proficient in JIRA, Excel