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Position Summary:

Cold Iron is seeking an experienced Senior Producer to join our world-class team working on our Aliens game. This position is fully remote and open to applicants across the country.

Can you not help but care if the team is on target, working on the most important tasks to hit their overall goal? Do you arrange schedules to solve for interdependencies like a wizard and attack work roadblocks like a berserker? Is it a point of personal pride that you know the current status and roadmap of the project like it was tattooed on you?

Here’s the most important one: Do you do it all for the game? Because you know that your talents are needed to make sure that even the best development teams get an awesome experience out the door?

Awesome. Come join our creative, collaborative studio where you’ll own the product management responsibilities for a tight, integrated team of game developers.

Your Day to Day:

You can expect to be responsible and accountable for the following:

  • Build and own the product plan while overseeing development efforts, keeping product development on schedule, within budget, and hitting the game’s vision.
  • Work with team members to ensure timelines are realistic and deliverables are scoped to allow for confident delivery of the highest possible quality within the time allotted.
  • Track and prioritize development tasks to make sure we hit team goals on time.
  • Be the liaison between the studio and third party development partners, including platform owners, publishers, outsourcing partners.
  • Be one with the status of the project. Communicate this effectively to the team, executives, and publishing partners.
  • Support leads and founders in holding product vision – be a product knowledge base for inside and outside of the company.
  • Run meetings and playtests. Drive agendas and achieve defined goals. Communicate the resulting information, decisions, and tasks to the team.
  • Lead day to day playtesting and manage QA operations
  • Handle the localization of pipeline
  • Own and coordinate the product release cycle. Manage releases for things as simple as internal team playtests to full console certification and release.

Your Career Progression:

Do the best work of your career! No, really, that’s what we expect of you. Come aboard and work with industry veterans all working to improve their craft and become better game developers. Your portfolio of experience will grow, and the size of the audience you reach will expand exponentially. The small team atmosphere allows you to contribute more and have greater ownership over what you do day today.

Requirements:

  • Love of games.
  • A minimum of 6 years of industry experience in an internal production role.
  • Must have worked on at least two shipped game throughout the entire product cycle.
  • Excellent documentation and communication skills with strong attention to detail.
  • Extensive knowledge of how games are made.
  • Ability to multitask, prioritize, and follow-through to completion.
  • Superior product management skills with hands-on experience with multiple different product management methodologies.
  • Great interpersonal and facilitation abilities.
  • A deep desire to make game development better for all those involved.
  • Proficiency in Excel, Word, Outlook.

Would Love to See:

  • Previous hands-on development experience
  • Experience in bringing a product through console certification and release cycle.
  • Experience in multiplayer, console, RPG and/or shooter games a plus.
  • Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Slack, Project.
  • Experience with outsourcing management

Education:

  • No requirement.

Location:

  • Fully remote

About our Location:

Cold Iron is a San Jose, California based studio, with a team of remote game developers all over the country. We’re a diverse group of veterans with decades of experience developing and launching award-winning MMO and action titles on PC and console.

Exceptional employee benefits: 18 days PTO first year; Robust Medical, Dental, Vision insurance coverage for entire family; Company matched 401k vested immediately; Flex Spending Accounts, generous tuition reimbursements, ultra-creative environment.