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Title: Executive Producer

Location: Remote

Contract: Permanent

1518 studios is looking for an Executive Producer to join a new top-tier team, to help craft our next clients innovative AAA games.

The Executive Producer is responsible for making sure all our client projects are released on time and within budget. As the Executive Producer, you are ultimately responsible for our clients AAA projects and your goal will be to manage development from concept through to release and delivery of a high-quality engaging game for various platforms. You will be collaborating with global teams, management, internal, and external stakeholders.

As an Executive Producers you will be an engaging communicator, creative problem solver, and thoughtful collaborator. You will use your depth of experience across all facets of game development, providing vision and clarity across the production process, ensuring all the pieces fit thoughtfully together, so we can deliver the unique and memorably gaming experiences our clients fans demand.

As our Executive Producer, you will help drive the development team towards their production goals, determine resource requirements, and manage various risks to any of our client projects.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for game’s full development cycle, where you lead the development and champion the product’s vision to the team.
• Accountable for the game’s overall quality and delivery.
• Responsible for the P/L of the games and that the games reaches agreed goals.
• Manages ongoing financial tracking for the games, coordinating between the project and the financial department.
• Responsible for the collaboration with external clients and internal stakeholders.
• Liaising with PTW’s Business Development to co-create new pitches in the pitch process to our new clients.
• Oversees project risk mitigation efforts and ensures they are effective.
• Accountable to define the project’s production goals and monitor the relative KPI’s.
• Mentor & coach key project personnel.
• Partner with studio creative leadership to drive product vision and ensure execution at the highest quality level.
• Own and optimize the overarching creative roadmaps & schedules for products, ensuring that all production phases flow efficiently between teams.
• Lead any legal/contractual/licensing discussions.
• Balance project production requirements within budget and staffing constraints while ensuring high production values are never compromised.
• Proactively surface issues, roadblocks, and concerns between development teams, driving alignment and consensus for projects and priorities.
• Grow and expand a culture promoting collaboration and continuous improvement, ensuring the team is consistently set up for success.
• Effectively communicate the needs of the project, building and strengthening communication at all levels and with all key stakeholders.
• Bring energy, momentum, passion, and charisma to inspire and motivate the team.
• Build the appropriate scaling structures inside the team to allow it to grow as needed.
• Foster a healthy, collaborative, and impactful team culture. Use inclusive behaviours to ensure all voices are heard, invite input from many perspectives, and resolve disagreements.
• Partner with the Studio Senior Managers on innovating, refining, and improving processes throughout development (from concept to release).
• Craft clear, detailed, and proactive communication to your immediate group, the studio leadership team, and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• At least 8 years experience as a Producer within game development production, where at least 4 years be in a position with management experience;
• At least three released and successful games as Executive Producer, Senior Producer, Game Director, or similar.
• Previous experience applying Agile methodologies to game development projects.
• Ability to gain and maintain the respect and trust of development teams through thoughtful discussion and perseverance.
• Persuasive communication skills, able to diplomatically and effectively negotiate efficient solutions across cross-functional teams.
• Comfort with a variety of project management tools and methodologies, able to fluidly move between systems and approaches.
• You understand and have hands-on knowledge of all aspects of game production from concept through live operations.
• Proven leadership skills, with an inspiring, enthusiastic spirit for collaborative teamwork.
• Credit on at least three shipped games as Producer or above or been involved with two projects through a complete development cycle.
• Has directly led a full or significant part of a development team as a senior producer or similar management role.
• Extensive knowledge in game and software development methods.
• Experience with identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies.
• Great problem solving skills and ability to motivate others to find solutions in new and dynamic environments.
• Ability to lead teams of 20+ individuals in different Time Zones.
• Agile with budgeting and numbers, able to analyse, plan and strategize in coordination with our Financial department.
• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Excellent listening and communication skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Desired Qualifications

• A background in animation will be a big plus.
• You are knowledgeable about current trends that impact player motivations and behaviour.

Benefits

• Highly attractive remuneration, and career advancement opportunity.
• You will be working for the pre-eminent global provider of specialist services to the games industry and provided with full training and leadership support and the opportunity to work with the biggest games clients in the world.
• Competitive full company kit, remuneration, pension and holidays, regular team competitions with great prizes; and inclusion into an extensive social calendar. Collaborative teamwork with people from all around the world, different nationalities and languages.
• A supportive community inclusive of LGBTQ+, and any age, ethnicity, religion, or disability. We care about the wellbeing of our employees and have a dedicated employee wellbeing programme.

Who We Are

35+ Studios | 26+ Years of Experience |1,000+ Products | 60+ Awards for Clients | 8,500 Employees

PTW is a video games services company that supports video game developers and publishers through outsourced production services. We started 25 years ago and since then, have grown exponentially year on year to where we are today. Our history is in gaming, and we are gamers at heart. In our time within the games industry, we have worked on over 1500 titles across all genres and all platforms, including 8 out of the past 10 Game-Of-The-Year-winning titles.

We have grown rapidly over the past few years and now have 35 sites spanning the globe. The PTW Family of Brands includes SIDE, 1518, and Orange Rock. SIDE works at the cutting edge of interactive media as a provider of audio services for the global entertainment market. Orange Rock is our in-house game and product development studio. 1518 is our award-winning global art studio providing art-related services at every stage of the game or app development process.

1518

Our in-house art team offers the highest-quality assets: from 2D concept design to 3D animation, in-game to package art, smartphone to VR, we make everything look amazing.

1518 Ranged across time zones and countries, we’re a diverse group of tech wizards, engineers, and strategists, with over 25 years combined on-the-job experience. Alongside our internationally-acclaimed art directors, artists, and animators, we’re building immersive game worlds through Art and Co-Dev. Our client list includes Electronic Arts, Google, Jam City, Disney, Warner Bros, and Uber. No detail is too small or insignificant, and no vision is too big or ambitious. Let’s make beautiful worlds together!

Our Values

Pole To Win’s core values are imbued across our global organization: Reinforced by our actions and our attitudes. Echoed throughout our approach to our operations and our clients. Exemplified by our culture, and most of all, our people. We build people and their careers. We actively turn to team mates for counsel, inspiration, and diverse perspectives. Relationships are built on mutual respect. Personal and professional integrity is our guiding principle. We are honest, authentic, transparent, and ethically sound. Our primary goal is to advance our clients’ businesses and their customers’ satisfaction. We set the bar for generating imaginative and effective solutions for the most challenging problems. We move with speed and agility. We love what we do. We have unwavering loyalty to our DNA, our culture, our values, and ourselves.

Welcome to PTW, Family of Brands

1518 STUDIOS
PTW

A huge iGaming business located in the Caribbean are looking for a Creative Director to act as the creative heartbeat of the business.

Salary: Competitive (Tax Free)

Location: Caribbean (Relocation Provided)

We are looking for a talented and motivated Creative Director to lead the company’s creative department.

What you’ll do:

• Work with the marketing team to produce new ideas for company branding, promotional campaigns, and marketing communications.

• Evaluate trends, assess new data and keep up-to-date with the latest marketing techniques. • Create and implement tailored plans based on each of our product vertical needs.

• Direct brainstorming meetings and creative sessions.

• Shape brand standards and create procedures to ensure all products are brand appropriate. • Supervise the department’s daily workflow, assign project workload, and monitor deadlines and budgets.

• Develop exceptional and well-crafted copy that meet our requirements.

What we’re looking for:

• A hands-on builder who is capable of designing promotions, seeing ideas to fruition and operating in a fast-moving and constantly changing environment

• A minimum of 5 years’ digital experience, particularly with, but not limited to web, social and emerging technologies.

• A solid understanding of design, copy and web practices.

• Strong iGaming experience

Pentasia

About Us

Trampoline is anything but an ordinary marketing communications agency. Our approach is personal, and long-standing partnerships are where we shine. Purpose often trumps profit; we’ve turned down some pretty big jobs that didn’t sit right. And when it comes to the work, our agency of diverse talents makes for an integrated powerhouse—with strategy, creativity, media and technology all coming together to connect our clients with their intended audiences.

Based in Halifax, collaboration is one of the key values we hold close as we believe it creates the most powerful work. We have a beautiful large, open space overlooking the Halifax harbour, which allows us to stay safe and distant from each other as we need when we are together in the office.

Our mantra is to be a force for positive change in the region. While we’re anchored to Nova Scotia, our mission extends beyond people and place. This positivity inspires us at every level. We’re proud of how we show up: in the office, in our community and beyond.

The Role

As a Senior Art Director, crafting creative concepts that translate visually is your bread and butter. You are an original thinker and a team player—matching strategic direction with appropriate creative results across all channels. In addition to creativity, keen attention to detail makes your work stellar. Also, you want to keep learning, but you want leadership experience, too.

Responsibilities:

· Contribute to strategic direction/creative briefs as appropriate

· Conceive, develop and present creative and design concepts.

· Strong abilities in adapting and customizing concepts appropriately across a multitude of channels

· Manage creative projects from concept to final delivery, with collaboration being a key component to your approach through this process

· Ensure quality control of your work.

· Collaborating effectively as a creative partner with writers, internal teams such as media, social media, web/digital, and clients.

· Work with production manager to source photographers, illustrators and external resources as required.

· Review junior creatives and studio work and drafts to ensure quality.

• Interact with clients, whether in person or remotely.

Requirements:

· 7+ years’ experience within a creative agency.

· Develop creative concepts and design work for wide range of clients and mediums.

· Familiar with agency processes.

· Can responsibility run projects from beginning to end.

· Think strategically, identify breakthrough concepts and ideas, and ways to bring them to life.

· Demonstrate a clear understanding of campaign objectives and strategies to achieve them.

· Web design and knowledge of UX/UI design best practices.

· Manage projects with limited input from a Creative Director.

· Balance creative with client business requirements.

· Visualize and verbalize creative concepts to team and client.

· Ensure that Trampoline stays progressive and innovative in all stages of creative; from research to development.

· Proficient in Mac operating systems and Adobe Creative Suite (animation and/or film editing will be considered an asset).

Trampoline

FOX61 in Hartford, Connecticut is seeking a creative and ambitious newsroom leader to help transform our 7-hour morning show. The Executive Producer will work with a team including a co-executive producer, producers, reporters, photographers and digital content producers to craft impactful content that is highly engaging and memorable. If you are a visionary that looks beyond the norm and takes risks… we want you on our award-winning team!

Responsibilities

• Manage team of anchors, producers, reporters, meteorologists, photojournalists, digital content producers and editors
• Work closely with Co-Executive Producer, Assistant News Director, Digital Director and Managing Editor on daily and future assignments
• Contribute to editorial process and make solid decisions in breaking news situations
• Review and approve scripts and rundowns to ensure accuracy and quality in accordance with stations guidelines
• Lead all aspects of additional assigned special projects from inception to completion
• Assist in scheduling of assigned direct reports
• Regularly critique newscasts with the staff, both as a team and with individual producers
• Execute strategies that engage and grow audiences across all platforms
• Work collaboratively with other managers
• Perform other essential functions as assigned

Requirements

• At least three years of newsroom leadership experience preferred as an executive producer, assistant news director or news director
• Ability to work flexible shifts, including holidays, mornings, evenings and weekends
• Experience successfully leading teams through content transformation
• Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills
• Knowledge of AP ENPS, Edius and content management systems a plus
• Organizational skills and the ability to work under constant time-sensitive deadlines
• Bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism, communications or related field a plus

Travel: Rarely: less than 10%

Work Environment Set: Office: normally performed in a typical interior/office environment

Physical Demands Set: Sedentary work: Involves sitting most of the time; walking, lifting, bending, standing, etc.

About TEGNA

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) is an innovative media company that serves the greater good of our communities. Across platforms, TEGNA tells empowering stories, conducts impactful investigations and delivers innovative marketing solutions. With 63 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA is the largest owner of top 4 network affiliates in the top 25 markets among independent station groups, reaching approximately 39 percent of all television households nationwide. TEGNA also owns leading multicast networks True Crime Network and Quest. TEGNA Marketing Solutions (TMS) offers innovative solutions to help businesses reach consumers across television, digital and over-the-top (OTT) platforms, including Premion, TEGNA’s OTT advertising service. For more information, visit www.TEGNA.com.

TEGNA requires all employees to be fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus.

EEO Statement

TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are a drug free, EEO employer committed to a diverse workforce. We encourage and consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, disability, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, veteran status or genetic information. TEGNA complies with all applicable laws related to accommodations.

FOX61 in Hartford, Connecticut is seeking a creative and ambitious newsroom leader to help transform our 7-hour morning show. The Executive Producer will work with a team including a co-executive producer, producers, reporters, photographers and digital content producers to craft impactful content that is highly engaging and memorable. If you are a visionary that looks beyond the norm and takes risks… we want you on our award-winning team!

EEO Statement

TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are a drug free, EEO employer committed to a diverse workforce. We encourage and consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, disability, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, veteran status or genetic information. TEGNA complies with all applicable laws related to accommodations.
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