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Position Summary

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America is seeking a resourceful, organized, highly collaborative, and hands-on producer with deep cross-functional experience in game development and publishing to help lead multiplatform projects for global audiences (from pre-production to launch and live ops). Our ideal candidate possesses proven organizational and leadership skills, is well versed in multiple areas of game development and global publishing, and has a solid grasp of the latest trends in online, console, and GaaS games.

Flexible, Remote and Work From Home options are available for this position until approximately April 2022. Afterwards we expect all employee's to join us at our new offices in Southern California where a hybrid work schedule will be observed.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Responsible for coordinating cross-functional teams on assigned projects.
  • Drives all facets of launch process and live operations, partnering with global internal teams, external development partners and vendors.
  • Works closely with internal teams and external partners to develop product plans, design docs/specifications, adjust resources, scope project milestones, and keep timelines on schedule.
  • Evaluates game designs; acquisition, retention, and monetization related features, systems, mechanics, and content; and propose/negotiate strategies to implement improvements.
  • Navigate a labyrinth of creative and technical requirements relentlessly to forecast obstacles; expose risks; anticipate and remove roadblocks, and collaborate across disciplines to find solutions and establish best practices.
  • Accountable for budgeting, scheduling, managing and tracking tasks, to mitigate risks and ensure project(s) are on schedule and within budget.
  • Defines, measure, and analyze key success metrics, and rigorously optimize games once they go live. Bring a feedback-driven perspective to the table and an ability to adapt to change based on consumer insights and/or marketing trends.
  • Prepares and deliver presentations and reports, as needed or requested.
  • Supports live game operations and address issues wherever and whenever they occur; ensure quality and stability of the service.
  • Be the champion and central point for all production related activities: the successful applicant will be the primary escalation and contact point for assigned projects.

Qualifications/Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience working game development and/or publishing on multiple game launches (strong preference for live ops; GaaS projects) with at least 1 year working in a management or supervisory role.
  • Expertise in two or more development and publishing disciplines, including project management, product management, localization, QA, Release Management, game design, engineering, network operations, art/design, marketing, customer service, etc.
  • Highly proficient with game industry standard software tools, design documents, production processes, and best practices (budgets, project management, localization, bug reports and defect tracking, etc.).
  • Ultra-collaborative approach to development and publishing with the ability and willingness to pro-actively lead, support, and assist in multiple areas, across multiple regions.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment, managing multiple simultaneous priorities.
  • Excellent analytical, technical, and project management skills and experience with metrics-driven decision making.
  • Possess a creative, forward-thinking, results-focused and most importantly, solution-oriented mindset.
  • Knowledge of monetization models with solid understanding of microtransaction and virtual currency based models, including acquisition, retention, and monetization strategies.
  • Strong command of GaaS landscape; titles, their features, mechanics. Ability to analyze competitive products for their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Superb communication, time-management, and organizational skills.
  • Proven ability to work with cross-cultural, international teams.
  • Experience working on free-to-play and/or console projects is a plus.
  • Fluency in Japanese is a plus.

Education/Experience

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees in this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications of employees assigned to this job.

About BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc.

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc., part of BANDAI NAMCO Holdings Inc., is a leading global publisher and developer of interactive content — including all major video game consoles, iOS, mobile and online. The company is known for creating and publishing many of the industry's top video game franchises, including PAC-MAN®, Tekken®, SOULCALIBUR®, NARUTO™, NARUTO SHIPPUDEN™, Dragon Ball®, GALAGA®, RIDGE RACER® and ACE COMBAT®.