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As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent. We’re on the hunt for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Perks & Benefits

  • Unlimited Paid Time Off, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
  • Flexible work hours
  • Indefinite contract + benefits
  • Private health insurance coverage
  • Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
  • 2 Hour mid day play/lunch break
  • Wellness Activities
  • Happy Hours
  • Company Retreats
  • Convenient location in northern Bogotá near 93 Park

Jam City is seeking a motivated, skilled Senior Producer to join our World War Doh game studio in Bogota! We are focused on building an awesome mid core multiplayer mobile game. If you have a passion for games and have an awesome engineering background, come join us!

Responsibilities

  • Manage production workflows, collaboratively prioritize and track deliverables, to ensure product goals are delivered on schedule.
  • Cost and manage feature execution towards product deliverables and milestone reviews.
  • Participate in content and feature planning.
  • Communicate project status effectively with other key stakeholders like Product, Marketing, Customer Service, and Studio Leadership.
  • Coordinate build submission to Apple and Google.
  • Demonstrate influence over internal and external, ensuring the final game product goals are met, even in the face of adversity and challenges.
  • Organize, support, and optimize: teams, workflows, processes, projects, and more!
  • Knock down any obstacles in advance of hitting them.
  • Challenge the status quo and offer solutions for improvements.
  • Set a tone for high productivity and morale: engagement, enthusiasm, passion and a strong work ethic.
  • Build trust with relevant teams and stakeholders and obtain all necessary approvals, as needed.
  • Understand the player experience and advocate for excellent quality and usability.
  • Manage and work closely with QA across multiple time zones to ensure high-quality, bug-free build submissions.
  • Communicate the overall vision for the game and mediate between the development team and Game Design & Product Management.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years’ experience in a production role in software projects.
  • 2+ years experience in a production role in mobile app/game projects.
  • Coordination of Front and Backend engineering teams of over 10 members.
  • Ability to balance project demands with creative essentials.
  • Attention to detail.
  • You demand quality, creativity and fun while still managing project constraints.
  • Solid project management foundation across various project management methodologies and of game production processes.
  • Understanding of mobile app/game development processes, data-based decision making, and running games-as-a-service in live operations.
  • Proactive, results oriented, self-starter, with a strong sense of ownership, accountability and urgency to complete projects from start to finish.
  • Strong organizational skills, and passion for managing details.
  • Calm and deliberate performance under pressure and strict deadlines in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
  • Team player with good people skills – able to communicate and influence up, down and across the organization.
  • Ideal candidate leads by example.
  • Pragmatic: making games is complex, able to prioritize and focus when everything is high priority.
  • Proficient at using various production tools such as Wikis, Confluence, Jira, MS office, G-Suite, etc.
  • Excellent English oral/written communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to take direction and incorporate feedback.
  • Sense of humor and optimistic approach.
  • Willing and able to travel internationally (infrequently).
  • Passion for video games a must!
  • Experience with Version Control systems, especially GIT.
  • Experience with Continuous Integration.

About Jam City

Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.

Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.

The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.

Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.