Studio: Black Forest Games
Job Opening: Producer
Location: Vienna, Austria
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Following up and making things happen.
- Ownership of specific areas of the game.
- Preparing and tracking schedules, and identifying risks and opportunities.
- Making sure communication flows on time and on target.
- Prioritizing teams’ work and deliverables in regard to the constraints and goals.
- Identifying and helping resolve short & long-term resource and quality bottlenecks.
- Helping implement and improve production pipelines, design, and communication techniques, making sure these processes are followed up on time.
- Helping coordinate across the development team and supporting other non-games. development endeavours such as play-testing sessions, interviews, key asset provision, etc.
- Helping liaise with external parties when needed.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 3+ years’ experience at a game studio working as a Producer or similar title.
- Outstanding group communication skills with proven ability to work within a team in English.
- Proactive project and people management skills in a multicultural environment.
- Passion for video games and quality with an eye on the “big picture”.
- Experience in documentation and communication workflows.
- Being a relentless self-starter with the ability to motivate others to get results.
- Acting as an organized center of information with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience in Agile or Waterfall development methodologies and tools.
- Keen ability to prioritize tasks and issues in relation to goals and constraints.
- Strong command of MS Office products.
Pluses:
- Experience in complex action games.
- Working know-how of the Unreal engine.
- Experience in scripting languages and/or automating project reporting.
- Hands-on experience with Confluence, Kanban boards, and common bug trackers.
- Experience in console platform TRCs.
- Ability to work towards deadlines under changing conditions.
- Having shipped at least 1 product from initial conception to post-sales support.
- Understanding of a programming language.
- Knowledge of French and/or German
