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Producer (Hybrid)
- Posted 02 February 2023
- Salary Negotiable
- LocationLeeds
- Job type Permanent
- DisciplineProduction
- Reference18630
- Contact NameConnor Green
Job description
We are supporting XR Games as they look for a Producer to join their team as they begin work on multiple exciting projects.
The studio are a multi award-winning game development studio that specialises in immersive VR games. Since 2020, their team has grown from 20 full-time members to almost 100 by the close of 2022, with successful previous projects such as Zombieland: Headshot Fever and Angry Birds Under Pressure.
Your responsibilities…
The studio are a multi award-winning game development studio that specialises in immersive VR games. Since 2020, their team has grown from 20 full-time members to almost 100 by the close of 2022, with successful previous projects such as Zombieland: Headshot Fever and Angry Birds Under Pressure.
Your responsibilities…
- Provide overall project direction and ensure that the project’s goals, objectives, and milestones are consistently achieved and never compromised
- Maintain and be responsible for the project schedule, including task breakdowns and assignments
- Manage the schedules of multiple departments within the game team, to ensure that milestones are agreed, detailed, and delivered as expected
- Manage the project budget, identifying resource requirements and expectations, tracking actual project spend versus planned spend, and continuously updating projections
- Identify and resolve conflicts between schedule, budget, and design goals
- Head up and take ownership of internal and external project, reporting both to stakeholders and to the team itself
- Drive daily scrum efforts, organise retrospectives and planning sessions, and encourage the team’s continuous Scrum adoption
- Ensure excellent communication, positive working relationships, and teamwork within the development team and across disciplines
- Coach and mentor junior production staff
- 3+ years in a mid-level Producer role, with a goal to develop yourself into a senior position
- Comfortable and experienced with managing a multi-disciplined team, whilst having a flexible approach to working with IP demands and requirements
- Naturally agnostic when it comes to technology, with the ability to comprehend new tools and tech easily
- Strong grasp of Jira (or similar task management programs)
- Prior experience as a producer on a VR title is a bonus