Senior Producer

🕒 June 26

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Blackbird Interactive

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201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gaming • B2C

Blackbird Interactive (BBI) is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent studio based in Vancouver, known for developing video games such as Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and the upcoming Homeworld 3, Minecraft Legends, and Crossfire: Legion. Founded in 2010 by Rob Cunningham, Yossarian King, and Aaron Kambeitz, BBI boasts an internal CG cinematics department led by the founder of Pixar Canada and has collaborated on various game-adjacent projects. BBI was recognized as one of the fastest growing Canadian companies by revenue in 2020 and 2021 by The Globe and Mail and Deloitte.

📋 Description

• Oversee projects, or one or more complex cross-discipline feature teams • Establish and maintain team and product roadmaps, evaluating and assessing capacity on a daily basis, proactively assessing and mitigating risk • Partner with Product Owners and Stakeholders to establish feature goals and deliver features on time • Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies and balance priorities • Partner with the technical and creative leadership teams to ensure project vision, deliverables and goals are met • Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve • Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners • Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members. • Manage direct reports and support career growth • Establish and maintain regular communication channels with other feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders • 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 • 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 and successfully with external and publisher stakeholders • Demonstrable experience of short and long term scope and capacity management • Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development. • Experience in various project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile • Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines • Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment • Excellent verbal and written skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements