Studio: Rocket Science Studios
Job Opening: Producer
Location: Albany, New York
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Project Management & Delivery: Manage the entire lifecycle of multiple projects, ensuring milestones are delivered on time and within scope and budget. Align teams around project plans and schedules, executing efficiently within Agile practices.
- Account Management: Act as the primary point of contact for clients, building trust and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships. Serves as the voice of the client within the organization, ensuring their needs and objectives are prioritized.
- Strategic Thinking: As part of the above, can identify the strategic needs of our clients and their respective objectives and priorities, enabling organic growth.
- Risk Management & Quality Assurance: Identify, communicate, and mitigate project risks, ensuring quality standards are upheld.
- Communication: Provide regular updates to clients about project progress, challenges, and solutions, ensuring transparency. Aligning with this, ensuring we get sign off on each deliverable via clear comms.
- Expectation Management: Align client expectations with project realities, negotiating scope or timeline adjustments as needed.
- Upselling & Business Expansion: Identify opportunities to expand client relationships by working with BD and Engineering to pitch additional services or capabilities.
- Culture & Team Collaboration: Foster a collaborative, positive work environment and manage distributed teams across time zones. Drive continuous improvement within the team.
- Reporting & Documentation: Maintain project documentation and deliver regular status reports to stakeholders. Ensure key learnings are shared to improve future projects.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years experience: Strong professional production, technical account manager, or project management experience.
- Mentorship: Experience of mentorship skills, managing, coaching, or mentoring less experienced producers.
- Multi-discipline Team Experience: Coordinating and/or managing multiple teams of multi-discipline engineers.
- Strong Organizational Skills: Attention to detail across multiple projects and teams.
- Drive: Keep team members working efficiently and effectively toward project goals, maintaining focus on the valuable product increments and scope.
- Passion: Championing continuous improvement and setting out new challenges for your studio.
- Basic understanding of back-end development and principles to support effective client communication and technical problem-solving.
- Excellent project management skills, with solid experience using tools like Jira, Github, or similar.
- Ability to communicate complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders effectively.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly assess situations and provide actionable solutions.
- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail across multiple projects and teams.
