Job Description:
Soldiers, scientists, adventurers, oddities…producers? The Overwatch team is looking for a new hero to team up as a Senior Game Producer!
Members of the Overwatch team are passionate gamers at heart - driven to make the most fun and compelling experiences for our players. We spend our days collaborating and iterating on everything that goes into the game: from placing health packs to dreaming up the craziest “Play of the Game” animations. Our goal is to always surprise and delight our players. We believe in maximum visibility and communication at the team level and with the people who play our game. This philosophy, along with the Blizzard values of “Gameplay First” and “Play Nice, Play Fair,” has made Overwatch one of Blizzard's most successful games, and it has forged a bond of trust with our worldwide player community that is extremely important to us.
Are you the hero that has what it takes to coordinate Design and Engineering in delivering the best gameplay for the game? If you’re passionate about what you do and how you do it, we’d love to hear from you!
This is a full-time position at our office in Irvine, California.
Responsibilities
- Work with engineers, designers, animators, and tech artists on the planning, scoping, execution, and delivery of our gameplay engineering initiatives.
- Think and execute strategically on long-term project priorities, deliverables, and risks.
- Help define and communicate dates and deadlines to the team in an effective manner and drive the completion of goals.
- Facilitate and manage healthy communication throughout the team. Champion the team and its members. Foster a culture of open collaboration and trust.
- Identify, communicate, and work to resolve challenges that may prevent our team or our development partners from achieving goals on time.
- Define and refine processes and workflows throughout the team.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of experience working as a producer or project manager on a game team.
- Demonstrable ability to create, track, and maintain complex schedules, and to drive projects to completion in a timely manner.
- Skill to communicate effectively, correctly, and succinctly with key stakeholders and the team at large.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to drive towards clarity; strong collaborative problem solver.
- Knowledge of software development and project management, including agile frameworks.
- Experience working with AI and Gameplay Engineering and with cross-functional game teams.
Pluses
- Experience with online games
- Experience managing or mentoring other producers
- Expertise with Jira, Confluence, or comparable applications
- BA / BS (or equivalent)
