Vancouver, Canada On-site Employment

Visual Concepts is hiring a Producer

Responsibilities

  • Partner with design and tech peers to ensure the impact and quality of established goals and deliverables for your group
  • Become well versed in the features being built for the game which will allow you to run your sub-team and appropriately prioritize the team’s work in partnership with designers
  • Project Manage your group
  • Align with the Producer lead to iterate on and develop structure and workflows in Jira and other project management tools such as Flow
  • Work with the team to help coordinate, focus, prioritize and track progress
  • Ensure roadblocks for the team are removed
  • Decompose long term efforts into incremental steps, planning and communicating road maps and risks to all stakeholders
  • Drive effective process within your group
  • Work with multi-disciplinary teams of designers, engineers and artists to establish, prioritize, plan and deliver on short term and long term goals for the project
  • Drive alignment, resolve ambiguity, and clarify technical and design strategy to improve your impact
  • Partner with a senior producer to build, enhance Jira workflow and tools, evaluate and add plugins that will help streamline either workflows or reports and dashboards
  • Manage the structure and morale of your team in collaboration with your team leads
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve your team's objectives
  • Work with dev team (internal) stakeholders and across partner teams (external) as needed to share vision, resolve dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of feature inputs and requirements
  • Play the game to understand it and gauge the quality of completed deliverables against the intended quality targets

Requirements

  • 3-4 years of game production experience
  • Has completed at least 1 full game development cycle from pre-production to shipping
  • Understands that great teams make great games – focuses on healthy team culture and understands how to strengthen team dynamics
  • Organized, excellent communication skills, highly collaborative, open minded and has a tendency to be curious
  • Outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills
  • Passion for games and cares deeply about product quality – is not purely focused on just task management
  • Excellent problem solver with a high degree of common sense
  • Experience setting clear goals, planning and delivering features with cross functional teams and multiple competing requirements
  • Excellent project management capabilities, documentation, tracking and visibility
  • Attention to detail and completeness, ability to see around corners, anticipate issues
  • Strong understanding of technical concepts – has the skill to work with engineers and understand technical implications of their work – the “why” behind what they are doing, not just the “what”
  • Project management training in Scrum or other agile framework
  • Very strong experience with Jira and Flow / Shotgrid – not just using an established framework, but also able to build workflows, work with and learn new plug-ins and assist with tooling within those tools
  • Experience in project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
  • Excellent at cultivating positive working relationships with internal partners and development teams

Nice to Have

  • An engineering background would be an asset
  • Love for sports is an asset

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity awards
  • Eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage
  • 14 paid holidays per calendar year
  • Paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program
  • Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year
  • Paid parental and compassionate leave
  • Wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support
  • Family planning support through Maven
  • Commuter benefits
  • Reimbursements for fitness-related expenses

Work Arrangement

On-site — Vancouver, BC

Team

Structure: Producer will partner with Sr. Producers and work with multi-disciplinary teams of designers, engineers, and artists.

Additional Information

  • Base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations
  • Total compensation package may include bonus, equity awards, and eligibility to participate in 401(K) and Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Regular, full-time employees are eligible for benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, vacation, sick days, parental leave, wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and fitness reimbursements
  • Equal opportunity employer committed to accommodations for individuals with disabilities
  • No job interviews or offers conducted over third-party messaging apps
  • No financial exchanges or requests for personal/financial information during recruitment
Required Skills
Jira
About company
Visual Concepts
One of the world’s top game development studios, known for shipping over 100 multi-sku titles to critical acclaim and commercial success, including the NBA 2K franchise.
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Job Details
Department 2K Sports Lab
Category other
Posted 15 days ago