Studio: Abstraction Studio
Job Opening: Senior Producer
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Cultivate Collaboration: Enhance our team culture through active participation and open communication.
- Ignite Innovation: Bring fresh, creative ideas that challenge conventional thinking.
- Embody Our Values: Live our core values and inspire others by example.
- Encourage Growth: Share your knowledge, fostering both individual and team development.
- Oversee the day-to-day activities of a project and drive the project’s quality and planning.
- Manage production schedules, risks, and dependencies between various disciplines.
- Track progress towards deliverables and report on project status.
- Facilitate constant communication between team members, departments, and stakeholders.
- Run daily stand-ups, chase actions, steer priorities, and remove roadblocks.
- Schedule and run meetings effectively and ensure outcomes are clear and followed up on.
- Identify risks and dependencies early on to be able to mitigate accordingly.
- Evaluate cross-discipline pipelines, improve processes, and coach team members.
- Effectively set and manage expectations between all stakeholders.
- Guide teams to successfully deliver high-quality products on time, within budget.
- Coach and mentor other producers and evangelize best practices company-wide.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Have 7 or more years of experience as a producer or project/team manager, working with complex cross-disciplinary teams on high-scale, high-stakes projects. (Preferably in games.)
- Shipped multiple games; at least one large, as the leading producer on the project.
- Excellent leadership qualities, as well as people and soft skills.
- Proactive attitude that likes to engage in high-pressure problem-solving.
- Ability to handle a wide range of situations with confidence.
- Care about your project’s quality as much as the happiness of your team.
- A sharp eye for detail, continuously looking to improve people, products, and processes.
- Able to identify the most critical points in the development process and during discussions.
- A strong, clear, and reliable communicator who’s calm and dependable under pressure.
- Able to deal with ambiguity and complex challenges on ever-changing projects.
