Senior Producer

Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.

In 2022, we announced that our studio is implementing a four-day work week as well as supporting in-studio, remote within Canada, and hybrid work arrangements as permanent options to our employees.

Do you love it when a plan comes together? Are you able to look at a problem and identify the steps that are necessary to understand and resolve that problem? Are you an expert at cross-platform game development through the entire production cycle? Do you love rallying and motivating a team towards shared goals to build a great game?

Blackbird Interactive is seeking a Senior Producer to lead the successful delivery of a large IP on VR devices. You will work with talented internal and external teams, help identify their needs, and move them through all project phases, including post-launch.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain the product roadmap
• Manage overall project scope and quality, proactively assess and mitigate risk
• Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies, and balance priorities
• Define, drive and own milestones and other project deliverables
• Partner with a technical and creative leadership team to ensure project vision, deliverables, and goals are met
• Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve
• Oversee  cross-discipline feature teams and maintain scope and capacity on a daily basis
• Partner with project creative leadership to establish feature goals and deliver features on time and in budget
• Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners
• Establish and maintain regular communication channels with feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders.
• Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members.
• Champion effective production processes identify opportunities to improve processes that will increase quality and efficiency, and help shape the evolution of production practices across the team.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects.
• Proven track record of successful releases
• Understands the unique challenges of VR game development and the broader VR market
• Strong understanding of game development cycle from pre-production to release
• Is a steady and practiced hand at steering a game’s production through the different stages of development
• Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project.
• Strategic thinker with high proficiency in various project management methodologies, who knows when to apply which methodologies to drive toward effective outcomes
• Experience working directly with external and publisher stakeholders
• Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.
• Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment.

Pluses:

• Experience developing VR games/ applications
• University degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience in cross-platform development environments.
• At least 2 shipped AAA game projects.
• Experience with AzureDevOps, Hansoft, JIRA, or other project management software tools.
• Lean/Agile certifications.

$150,000 - $160,000 a year