About Us
Psyonix is a video game developer best known for Rocket League, the award-winning game that combines soccer, driving, and highly competitive gameplay. As part of the Epic Games family, we are an industry-leading game studio rooted in a crunch-free philosophy that emphasizes an amazing employee experience, located in the heart of San Diego. For nearly 20 years, we have been a driving force behind some of the most successful games in the industry, including Gears of War, Mass Effect 3, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Bulletstorm, Unreal Tournament III and Unreal Tournament 2004.
What makes us Epic?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
What You'll Do
Psyonix is seeking a Senior Producer to run the Rocket League live game. This opportunity is ideal for someone who has worked in a highly iterative environment, has experience with a live game, and can thrive in a fast paced work environment. Our production culture is one of facilitation, organizing, and creating clarity in a rapid and agile development environment. Our ideal candidate must be self motivated and collaborative.
In This Role You Will
- Partner with Rocket League team members to create and execute on development goals and timelines
- Oversee multiple feature teams at once and own features and process; ensuring the team is aligned throughout development
- Work with different development teams to track tasks against a schedule, ready to provide context or accommodate adjustments as necessary
- Work with Quality Assurance to assess, triage, and distribute bugs
- Work with content development teams to ensure alignment with Production schedule and design objectives
- Facilitate team meetings to evaluate designs, track tasks, coordinate reviews, resolve workflow obstacles
- Act as the primary communication point between multiple teams, departments, and stakeholders
- Own the play-testing and feedback pipeline, ensuring developers and stakeholders are aware of project status
- Provide ongoing risk assessments with respect to team health, process bottlenecks, the schedule, and overall quality
- Identify and provide strategies to address potential roadblocks or team issues
- Identify inefficiencies and execute on opportunities for development process improvements, while helping define and encourage production best practices
- Champion special game and production related projects
What We're Looking For
- 6+ years of production experience
- Prior experience in video game development - major contributions to at least one title
- Self starter able to drive projects from concept to completion
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Must be detail oriented and display strong problem solving skills
- Strong communication skills
- Strong multitasking skills
- Positive attitude and passion for making games
- You’re user-focused, passionate, self-driven, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.
Nice To Have Skills
- Passionate gamer, strong familiarity with Rocket League
- Worked on a live game
- Technical / engineering experience
Epic Job + Epic Benefits = Epic Life
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay for 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. We offer coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, AD&D and Life Insurance, 401k, and profit-sharing.
All Epic employees can enjoy drinks, snacks, and lunches every day, free of charge in studios - and we offer plenty of annual celebrations for employees and family members to show the love for our people. Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical - we think our people are pretty awesome!
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
