Producer

Smoking Gun Interactive, a Keywords Studio, is an industry-leading game development studio founded in 2007 by award-winning industry veterans. SGI is fearless in creating IP and boldly partners with renowned brands to develop a wide range of world-class, immersive titles and interactive experiences that resonate with strategy gamers worldwide and entertain millions of casual players every day.

We offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and a creative and driven work environment with our passionate team of talented professionals on high quality projects.

Job Purpose

As a Producer at Smoking Gun Interactive (SGI), you’re an experienced team leader with excellent communication skills, and expertise in managing projects, priorities, schedules and team members. You work with the Studio Directors and Leads to define the Product Vision, develop milestone deliverables for the internal team and ensure they are met on-time and within budget. Additionally, you serve as the main point of contact with external publishers, and are able to communicate the project status and identify potential risks clearly at any time. You have robust experience producing and releasing PC and mobile titles in the game industry, and running live operations on released games. You’re also responsible for taking an idea from concept through all stages of development to completion and owning and driving the product to completion.

Requirements

In this role, you will:

• Manage the development of a game title from pre-production to final product release, with an eye towards meeting defined budgets, schedules and quality targets;
• Work with the Creative Director and Team Leads to develop and communicate a clear vision for the product;
• Create milestone schedules in coordination with Team Leads and Directors based on the products vision;
• Continuously assess risk and keep scope of the project in line with budget and schedule, while also working with team to be creative and produce the best quality game achievable within constraints;
• Monitor released products and work with live operations team to continually update and add features that improve the product;
• Work with team members to ensure daily tasks are in line with the product vision and that each member of the team is working from a tracked schedule and has a strong sense of ownership, responsibility and accountability for quality and timelines;
• Identify risks as early as possible in order to mitigate them and communicate both issues and proposed solutions clearly;
• Promote positive working relationships …