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Bethesda.net is looking for an exceptional Production Director with a passion for online games to lead our development production team.

The successful applicant will work as part of the Bethesda.net senior leadership team, ensuring that the production group is collaborating across the organization to drive development of Bethesda.net products and services. The Production Director will be accountable for development processes at all levels, ensuring high quality scheduling, milestone planning, identifying dependencies and possible workflow blockages, facilitating communication between Leads, and departments, while identifying and managing high risk areas of development. The Production Director will also be responsible for managing and building the production team to be able to fulfill these activities and drive the organization towards success.

Responsibilities

  • Continue to build a first-class production organization.
  • Collaborate with the producers and staff to create project schedules to budget resources, drive milestones and successfully ship and operate Bethesda.net products and services.
  • Create and refine development processes to increase production efficiency, work life balance and quality.
  • Manage the producers and effectively mentor and grow them.
  • Work with producers and team leads to create realistic schedules and milestone plans that are focused on the delivery of high-quality features and assets.
  • Regularly perform due diligence and guidance with producers and team leads to ensure maintenance of product plans and identify and mitigate risk areas before they become problematic.
  • Communicate with senior management on development status, and collaborate with discipline directors to solve problems and mitigate risk.
  • Manage the dependencies and development process with Bethesda.net and all of its external stakeholders and customers in corporate and game studios.

Qualifications

  • At least 5 years of project management experience in online entertainment development with a clear understanding of how to deliver online services.
  • Proven track record building and developing a production organization and executing upon a product vision.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Must thoroughly understand the mechanics behind cross discipline team collaboration and development driven product ownership.
  • Ability to prioritize development initiatives, balancing both business and qualitative needs.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively to solve problems in an efficient manner.
  • Ability to create project schedules, milestones and monitor the progress of departmental objectives.
  • Ability to collaboratively create and implement best production practices and processes in regard to the specific needs of the individual teams and project as a whole.
  • Excellent organizational skills, detail orientated and have the ability to multi-task under pressure.
  • Project management software skills using JIRA or other project management software.