2K Games

Location: Novato, CA

Division: 2K Games Publishing

Develop quality software products, from concept to release and for providing and maintaining the creative vision of the products for 2K Games. All candidates should be self-motivated, highly organized, and possess strong leadership and team-building skills. A Senior Producer is a leader of leaders, capable of taking charge of a project. Franchise or external team and unifying the project or group effectively towards a specific set of goals. This role requires the simultaneous management of multiple products.

The Senior Producer is ultimately responsible and accountable for shipping products on-time and to a high degree of quality whether as their direct responsibility or via their direct reports.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead multiple projects or franchises simultaneously at different stages of development from concept to completion while acting as the product’s champion.
• Oversee, manage and liaise with internal and external resources to meet production schedules and maintain a coherent creative vision throughout the entire development life cycle.
• Serve as a technical and business resource to other producers, assisting them in the resolution of complex problems or leading them on larger projects.
• Support the strategic planning and budgeting processes for products, providing financial, technical, and creative input to management.
• Assist in improving development processes and best practices.
• Establish development priorities and deadlines.
• Develop product budgets and schedules and maintain forecasts of the budget, anticipating, identifying and resolving overruns.
• Ensure adherence to schedules and budgets through enforcement of milestone approval or disapproval as per established contracts.
• Assist Producers in the direction of large, strategic products.
• Assist with recruiting and interviewing candidates for positions in product development.
• Establish, maintain, and enhance relationships with internal and external resources.
• Manage and act to prevent potential conflicts between internal and external expectations for projects.
• Assist and drive identifying key product to acquire or license to support the company business goals.
• Assist with coordinating game release process with internal groups.
• Travel, both domestic and international, is required.
• Potential day-to-day direct management and guidance of other publishing production staff including hiring, personnel reviews, etc.
• Coordinate with industry first parties (Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft) seeing projects from concept through to gold master.
• Coordinate with marketing to ensure synergy between Product Development, Developer and Marketing.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5-7+ years of experience in internal or external game development
• Experience with AAA products required
• Must demonstrate strong fiscal sense, in managing both budget and expectations both within the team and to executive management
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), time and project management skills.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Project.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and communicate with all development disciplines.
• Experience building and managing relationships with vendors and other external resources
• Experience with industry first parties (Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft) seeing projects from concept through to gold master.
• Experience with scheduling tools a must
• Experience managing conflict
• Experience managing, mitigating and resolving risks.
• Experience working with remote studios and contractors.
• Understanding of various production process and methodologies
• Expected to identify and then take ownership of any responsibilities that lie within the scope of project components being managed and are not currently assigned

Skills:

• Capable of managing multiple projects at a high level to provide a balanced perspective for team managers.
• Strong focus on leadership of leaders; must be capable of attaining the highest quality results through managing project managers.
• Ability to conduct themselves in a professional manner with all co-workers on all levels of the organization.
• Must display resourcefulness, enthusiasm, and self-motivation
• Quick learner, able to pick up new tools and learn new processes quickly and without missing a stride
• Flexibility to take on additional responsibilities, as assigned by senior management
• Strong problem solving skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Highly organized. Able to keep on an assigned track without constant supervision
• Ability to self-prioritize effectively, to ensure key items are delivered to meet immediate project needs
• Must be able to effectively communicate risks and obstacles both to managed team members, as well as to upper management.
• Ability to oversee schedules of external teams without any loss in effectiveness
• Ability to manage to and deliver on hard product deadlines with rapid development cycles while being the guardian over product quality.
• Proven and established negotiation skills.
• Strong industry understanding and knowledge (both historically and forward looking)
• Skilled in all phases of game development from concept to completion.
• Ability to inspire and motivate those that work for them and those they work around.
• Confident public speaker, particularly able to handle press interviews, executive review meetings, etc.
• The ability to multi-task in order to handle a very large number of discrete tasks at once, without losing focus on any individual item

Reports To: Development Director

If you would like to apply, please send your CV (and sample code or demo reel when appropriate) to Brooke Grabrian: brooke.grabrian@2kgames.com