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Established in 2016, ProbablyMonsters is a next generation independent game company that creates long-lasting studios and exceptional games. Revolutionizing the way AAA game studios are built, ProbablyMonsters provides its teams the resources and creative environment needed to foster stable, rewarding, and life-long careers while delivering best-in-class entertainment through a positive people-first culture.

We have built three studios so far. Each of them has a unique identity built around the type of gamer experience they are creating. Knit together inside the ProbablyMonsters family culture, all studios are bonded by the core values of respect, trust, accountability, and approachability.

Supporting multiple simultaneous AAA game projects with shared resources and benefits, our Central Team connects all studios by the company’s mission to unite, guide, and empower developers to create exceptional entertainment experiences. Members of the Central team provide HR, Finance, IT, Engineering, Legal, Marketing, Biz Dev, and Operations guidance so our development studios get the confidence, security, and stability to create and ship their games free of distractions.

The Central Team is looking for a seasoned, world-class Technical Producer for our Platform team to help drive service integration into game projects. In this role, you will help us build and integrate technology to solve the studios' immediate needs balanced against the eventual goal of having robust, scalable services to support live games and the core services, teams. This role will require strong coordination with our partner studios, a solid vision of where we need to go, and the agility to change our path when the need arises.

Who You Are:

  • You are an excellent translator, providing the context necessary to help all stakeholders understand problems and solutions despite their level of technical knowledge.
  • You are practiced at consulting with a broad range of different perspectives to build consensus on the best way forward.
  • You can advise on feature priority, particularly with the integration of services into game products.
  • You debug and refine development processes. You're passionate about helping people find a better way to work.
  • You find time to play video games and empathize deeply with our players because you are a gamer at heart.

What You Will Do:

  • Work with Platform, Game, and Quality Assurance Teams to integrate systems and services.
  • Align milestone roadmaps from various teams to ensure delivery of a complete product.
  • Inform updates to project roadmaps based on new information from multiple sources across multiple teams.
  • Create visibility into the status of integration of services with multiple game products.
  • Put people first, every time.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Four years experience in production or project management in-game engineering development, or equivalent experience in software development in a different discipline.
  • You have shipped at least one AAA title or equivalent development experience.
  • Practical knowledge of production and project management methodologies, Kanban, Scrum, Agile, and Waterfall.
  • Familiarity with project management tools like Jira and Project.
  • Familiarity with Quality Assurance methodologies and processes.
  • Engineering or technical proficiency is a plus.