Studio: SMG Studio
Job Opening: Mid-Senior Producer / Project Manager
Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Lead and coordinate a cross-disciplinary team through all production phases to ensure project goals, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
- Serve as a main point of contact for the project team, stakeholders, and management.
- Build and maintain project backlogs, roadmaps, schedules, and other key project management artifacts across our titles and prototypes.
- Crush those Blockers! Identify, escalate, and help your team clear potential blockers that could affect the timeline, sequencing, or quality.
- Manage change and evaluate risk, and assess impact on project delivery.
- Documenting the outcomes of meetings and allocating and enforcing actions on the team.
- Organise and document beta testing rounds, both local and remote.
- Liaise with our 3rd-party production partners.
- Monitoring analytics and escalating issues and insights as needed.
- Proactively contribute to the improvement of our production and development processes and tools through knowledge sharing and best practices.
- Help coach, train, and support less experienced members of the project management team, both direct and indirect reports.
Qualifications & Skills:
- A strong understanding of Agile methodologies with hands-on experience managing technical and digital projects
- Experience managing, reviewing, and analysing budgets and resources. Also including project scope, reporting, and scheduling
- Fluency across production tools (Atlassian, Google Suite, Slack, etc)
Bonus points for any of the following;
- Experience working in a digital agency, e-commerce, or other tech company (The founders are all ex-digital advertising agency)
- Experience using Jira or Slack.
- A score of over 100 in One More Line.
- Experience coding, writing, 3D, photography, or any creative field.
- An interest in board games
- Prior employment at a large or small game developer
- Worked on the development & deployment of a console title (Switch, Xbox, PlayStation)
- Worked on the development & deployment of a Steam title.
