The developers of Gears of War are looking for a dynamic and organized Producer with a passion for game development. The Producer is responsible for managing one or more multidisciplinary teams composed of artists, designers, and technical artists and working directly with their Sr. Producer to drive features to completion. You will partner with the discipline leads of each of these groups to ensure they deliver on time and at a high quality. A key component of this role is to manage the critical dependencies between the groups and solve issues.
As part of the Production team, you will be expected to help create and foster a collaborative, healthy, and high performing work environment. The Producer will create production roadmaps based on backlogs and partner with product owners to establish sprint and milestone goals. He/she will execute against this plan by working with the leadership team to prioritize deliverables, manage risks, react quickly to challenges, report weekly status, and evaluate their group against deliverable completion and quality success criteria.
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify dependencies and risks associated with meeting project milestones; ensure necessary and appropriate steps are taken to resolve difficulties which may impede progress or compromise achievement of project objectives
- Create, update, and present status and information to provide ‘real-time' visibility of shared development efforts to the Studio Leadership team
- Identify task-related processes to improve efficiency
- Provide regular capacity plan updates
- Administer project related processes internal and external to the team, such as running scrums to identify dependencies and roadblocks
- Handle the formal and informal organizational communication with stakeholders
- Project development with emphasis on team empowerment
- Milestone planning, execution, and evaluation
- Communicate goals to the team and motivate them to execute on time and at a high-quality level
Qualifications
- Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills
- 5+ years Project Management or Production experience on console products
- Has shipped a minimum of 2 games products (minimum 1 console)
- Production experience with a variety of project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.)
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
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