Studio: Tencent
Job Opening: Production Assistant – Gameplay
Location: Irvine, California, US
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a passionate, organized, positive force by facilitating communication, organization, and alignment across your team and other departments.
- Support the team’s production goals, ensuring key deadlines are understood across all departments. Track all deadlines and identify and call out blockers.
- Collaborate with other departments to create, track, and follow up on all department-related dependencies.
- Track and maintain the department’s overall schedule, including recording dates, localization dates and deadlines, as well as internal schedules.
- Proactively identify useful information during meetings and help keep the team’s wiki organized and updated.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 2 years experience in a game production or project management role
- Understanding of Agile project management methodologies
- Familiarity with standard project management software such as MS Office Suite, Google Suite, and Perforce
- Skilled in administering project tracking software such as Jira, including JQL or similar scripting language
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Exceptional problem-solving and interpersonal skills (among different cultural backgrounds)
- Experience tracking a complex project and providing support to clear blocking issues
- Passion for storytelling across all mediums
- Highly motivated team player, willing to help grow and improve the production pipeline
- Detail-oriented with the ability to convey information clearly and concisely
- Be comfortable with multitasking in a fast-paced work environment
- A bachelor’s degree is preferable, but not limited to computer science or game development
Pluses:
- Passion for video games
- Certificates in Agile Project Management, PMP or equivalents
- Experience working with entertainment projects and teams
- Certificate in Jira Administration (ACP-JA)
