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Senior/Lead Producer

Manticore Games

Manticore Games

San Mateo, CA, USA
Posted on Thursday, February 8, 2024

We are looking for an experienced Senior Producer to help strategize, implement, schedule, and maintain specific features on a new immersive, open world sandbox life-simulation Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game. We want an individual who can own the production of multiple features while working with the Product Team on design and scope. This role will partner with QA and other departments to ensure a quality product.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with a team of design/product, engineering, and art resources on Core to ensure quality and timeliness on features
  • Drive the completion of project goals and facilitate communication, organization, and accountability across a multi-disciplined team
  • Work with product leaders to schedule, test, and drive features to ensure timely delivery
  • Own kick offs, schedule, tasking, and bug tracking for features
  • Have a strong understanding of the Product goals for any given feature
  • Work with product leads in understanding risk and resource needs for features
  • Facilitate day-to-day tasks and communication between game design, art, and engineering
  • Ensure the quality bar is hit and internal reviews are occurring at appropriate times
  • Help make informed decisions in conjunction with leads on development priorities and resources
  • Anticipate and proactively resolve issues and questions related to project scheduling, including (but not limited to) identifying roadblocks or bottlenecks that may impact the team from achieving their goals on time
  • Be a spokesperson for the consumer experience

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5+ years of work experience in the production and development of high-quality online games.
  • Having shipped at least 1 online PC game in a production role
  • Produce at least one title across multiple phases of game development, such as pre production, production and live services
  • Familiarity with some project management and development tools (Jira, Excel, Bugzilla, Microsoft Project)
  • Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall project methodologies
  • Able to communicate effectively with design, art, product, and engineering

Pluses

  • Experience using Unreal Engine
  • Experience working on MMO games
  • Experience shipping/maintaining a Live Service game

Pluses

  • Experience running remote teams
  • UGC and/or publishing platform experience
  • Experience developing on PC and Consoles simultaneously

Perks

  • Medical, Dental, Vision & Life/AD&D Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Maternity & Parental Leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Commuter Benefits
  • ADP Employee Discount Program
  • Daily Lunch (in office only)
  • Free Snacks & Beverages (in office only)

$100,000/year to $160,000/year

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