Studio: Sports Interactive
Job opening: Senior Producer (Art & Animation)
Location: Here East, London, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Studio Director, designers, producers, and team leads to produce realistic schedules and milestone plans for our artists.
- Work closely with the production team as well as senior management on development status and collaborate with discipline directors and leads to solve problems and mitigate risk.
- Identify and communicate roadblocks that may prevent the Art & Animation team from achieving the determined goals within the required milestones.
- Provide data to ensure project requirements, goals, aims, milestones and deliverables are achievable.
- Own the operational aspects of project planning and development, including reporting, risk assessment and management, capacity planning, and resource management.
- Review and improve processes and tools to improve quality, efficiency, and team effectiveness.
- Oversee technical hiring, training and development, holding regular one-on-one meetings, setting objectives, and supporting the team’s welfare, and development.
- Provide guidance, encouragement and mentorship to a creative and diverse team.
- Representative of the Line Managers cross-studio team to co-ordinate studio-leads and input and participate in developing studio culture, priorities, and policies.
- Establish and maintain cross-studio relationships within the SEGA family, share experiences and opportunities.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years of industry experience in a production leadership role.
- Extremely organised and able to deal with multiple different topics at one time.
- Knowledge in agile and waterfall processes, and SCRUM and Kanban methodologies.
- Strong time management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Previous experience in working under rapid development cycles.
- Strong experience and understanding of game development and art pipelines.
