Senior Producer – Forza Horizon

Turn 10 Studios, the award-winning Xbox studio in Redmond, Washington and home of the Forza franchise, is seeking a collaborative, passionate, and strategic Senior Producer to join our team. This role leads the team at Turn 10 that directly supports Playground Games, the studio that develops the critically acclaimed Forza Horizon series. The team provides business strategy, analytics, insights, compliance, and cross-team coordination.

The ideal candidate for this position will possess leadership skills, be able to leverage data to support decision making, be a trusted collaborator, and have a passion for working with local and remote game teams. This position is unique, as it interfaces with the game development team, the business team, the senior leadership team, and the broader Xbox organization. It is an amazing opportunity, since you’ll be working on a series enjoyed by millions of players, and a pillar within Xbox Game Studios.

You will develop and drive our strategy in partnership with our Marketing, community, partnerships, and business teams to provide ongoing acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization for Forza Horizon games. Additionally, you will oversee the processes used to drive cross-team alignment, decision-making, and feedback throughout the course of development. You will work with partners to provide visibility into the health of the game, along with insights and recommendations to improve the game’s performance against our business strategy. And importantly, you will create and foster the conditions to operate as a strong, trusted, high-performance partnership between our studios.

Responsibilities

Partner across creative and business teams to deliver fun, high-quality, exciting content that results in driving acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetization.
Establish the process for reaching alignment, providing oversight, and receiving perspective from various stakeholders.
Formalize title business strategies that deliver exceptional results against organizational goals.
Collaborate with multiple teams to define content roadmaps that support initiatives, go to market strategies, and live operations programs.
Capture decisions and clearly communicate them as a plan of record.
Provide quantitative insights that inform decision making by creative leaders.
Develop data-backed hypotheses and experiments to improve the performance of features and content.
Be a leader who models the inclusive culture within our studio.

Qualifications

Experience launching and servicing AAA games as a Product Manager or Producer.
Uses insights informed by data to inform game decision making.
Possesses practical knowledge of business KPIs.
Sets goals and defines strategies for delivering positive product results.
Facilitates stakeholder discussions, ensuring all voices are heard.
Manages changes effectively against plans of record.
Fosters healthy and collaborative relationships across multiple physical locations.

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