6+ years in a game team technical management
Commercially shipped or operated 2+ games in a leadership role
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

JOIN AMAZON GAMES AND HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF GAMES!

Amazon is all in on games.

Are you excited by creating, launching and improving games as a service? Do you possess strong analytical, problem solving skills? Do you enjoy and take pride in optimizing team efforts to solve for the best customer experience? If you are not afraid to speak your mind to invent simple processes for the complex job of managing a game team, this job is for you!

We believe the evolution that began with pre-internet arcade communities a quarter at a time, growing to the live streams and eSports of today, will continue to a future in which fans are creators, players are celebrities, and games are a global cultural touchstone that cuts across age, gender and nationality. Games have the power to connect communities at a massive scale, and we want to be a part of that future by delivering great customer experiences to players, viewers, streamers, and game developers. If you share our belief that games will produce some of the future’s most influential voices in media and art, come join us.

Amazon Games is seeking a motivational Lead Producer (Program Manager) to join our Seattle based team to manage the life cycle of our first party games as a service. Your role will define and document our development processes, report on our progress, set objectives, analyze data, drive improvements that are quantified with metrics, and influence resource allocation to continually improve our team efficiency at delivering the best customer experience. You will build upon your skills of allocating team resources with a clear path to franchise leadership.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of game team management and planning. You understand games as a service, their limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind architectural decision. You provide context (past, current, and future) for business/technology choices and a long-term perspective. You create plans that have clear, measurable success criteria. You clearly communicate progress and outcomes. You streamline and/or eliminate excess process. You are an excellent communicator. You write effective narratives and present them effectively to Directors and VPs. You routinely deliver the right things with limited guidance.

Responsibilities:

Define, monitor and refine resource allocations to optimize our efforts to deliver to the highest standards
Identify, negotiate with and manage multiple contributing external art, engineering and design vendors
Manage feature iteration and refinement to meet and exceed performance metrics
Work with finance and demand planning to forecast and track entire project P&L
Offer analysis and alternative approaches to achieve project goals
Experience as a senior program manager or senior producer for a worldwide game as a service
Deep knowledge of the mechanics of free-to-play games and the latest trends in mobile gaming
Demonstrated experience delivering games as a service using Agile or Kanban methodologies
Demonstrated track record of building and managing game P&Ls
2+ years managing scope and capacity planning for international games as a service
Strong creative and technical writing skills
Experience in Unreal 4
Passionate gamer with in-depth knowledge of games across multiple platforms
Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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