Airswift

We’ve been retained by our client, a social media gaming unicorn who recently raised a Series A round, in search of a Executive Producer to lead the frontier in the quest to reach one billion players!

As the world’s first Instant Play gaming company, our client is redefining the gaming category through building full games that are packaged into the API of popular social media applications like Facebook, Snapchat, and Viber – allowing users to play without needing to download.

Vertical: Instant Gaming/Mobile Gaming/Social Media Gaming

Salary: $200-300K (Commensurable with experience)

About this Role

As Executive Producer, you are the Visionary and Chief Executive Motivator of our games teams. You set the vision for our games. Every day, you inspire every team member to produce their greatest work. You are steadfast and vigilant, staying fully alert to the weaknesses, strengths, threats, and opportunities facing your games. Your energy is insatiable and contagious, infecting the team with confidence and comradery. Your strong, magnetic personality and charisma shine daily as you excite the team with your game’s potential while being the communication bridge between all stakeholders. Public speaking is second nature to you. You maintain overall planning and budgetary responsibilities for your games and ensure your projects achieve their ambitious goals. You build and lead teams of multidisciplinary people, including other producers, engineers, product managers, and creatives.

Responsibilities

• Run a game, ensuring it’s high quality, on time, and succeeds against business goals.
• Maintain the project’s budget, optimize costs and efficiencies throughout development and provide analysis and reporting to production leadership.
• Support the creation of each game’s schedule, budget, production pathways, and overall plan; continue to provide supervision and support through the full live operations life-cycle.
• Identify risks early and often while suggesting mitigation strategies that are thought through and take into account multiple paths to a solution.
• Manage multidisciplinary people. You can hire, train, and organize a skilled team; be prepared to lead, mentor, and develop future leaders.
• Evaluate and judge gameplay, using data and playtesting. Identify what plays and looks good and how to drive improvements towards greatness by leveraging both quantitative and qualitative assessments.
• Establish and leverage relationships with key stakeholders including Executive Management, Art, Marketing, and Operations.
• Provide creativity and strategic direction to games teams to improve product quality and drive game innovation. Ensure games maintain or exceed creative and technical objectives with each release.
• Create a culture that promotes brainstorming, collaboration, continuous feedback, support, and empowerment. Set clear goals for the team and hold employees accountable for deliverables; recognize and reward employees for strong performance.
• Be knowledgeable about games and trends in the industry, with a focus on mobile free-to-play, casual, and social gaming.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in the gaming industry (in a role working on the game development process).
• 5+ years of experience building, growing, and managing multidisciplinary teams.
• 3+ years of experience at Senior Producer level or above.
• Experience shipping 3+ high-quality titles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Outstanding Project Management skills and concept development.
• Capacity for analyzing the broader gaming market and adapting games and products to the market.
• A passion for creating and playing video games.

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