Associate Producer

Skybound is looking for an outstanding interactive Associate Producer to join our growing team. If you enjoy working with great people on a wide variety of projects then this job is for you.

The Associate Producer will support the Producer and Executive Producer with the day-to-day management of external development teams, forging strong, successful partnerships between development and publishing resources. They will also take on project lead responsibilities for small projects the team is managing by working directly with Development, QA, Legal, and Marketing to drive the project(s) from start to completion in a short period of time.

Reports: Producer and Executive Producer

Responsibilities will include:

• Manage stakeholder reviews, relationship management, and general creative process between developer, publishing, and external partners
• Reviewing all milestones for quality and gameplay
• Build playthroughs and write-ups and documentation review at each milestone
• Assistance with managing external vendors, requesting agreements, processing invoices
• Overseeing the QA, localization, live production, and customer service processes with our internal and external teams
• Communicating updates to all necessary teams
• Potential developer site visits
• Supporting the Producer and Executive Producers in other videogame projects as assigned

Requirements:

• A minimum of 2 years of video game production
• Highly organized and self-directed
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Enthusiastic and a team player
• Fluent with Microsoft Office, Jira, Slack and Discord
• A love of games, from indie to AAA, both past and present
• Education or work experience in related fields that apply directly to job responsibilities

Company Overview

Established in 2010, Skybound is a multiplatform content company that works closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending their stories to further platforms including comics, television, film, tabletop and video games, books, digital content, events, and beyond. The company is home to critically-acclaimed global franchises including The Walking Dead, Invincible, and Superfight.

Skybound Games’ capabilities include publishing, production, and global distribution for tabletop and video games across all genres, including the multi-million unit selling The Walking Dead video game series.

The company maintains key partnerships across the entertainment industry including Universal Pictures, Image Comics, and Audible, and has engaged an ongoing strategic business partnership with mobile games publisher and developer 5th Planet Games (OAX: FIVEPG).

Skybound digital and creative IP boasts unique creators such as Kristian Harloff and the Schmoedown Entertainment Network as well as Peter Santa Maria and his Attack Peter brand.

Skybound offers a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, commuter benefits, and supplemental plans, as well as free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We also offer a 401K plan with up to a 4% match, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, generous time off and tuition reimbursement.

For the most up to date information on Skybound, please visit the company on Twitter (@Skybound), YouTube (Skybound), Facebook (@SkyboundEntertainment), Instagram (@skyboundent), and at www.skybound.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Skybound we value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds! Skybound is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, hair texture or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Skybound complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination.

Skybound will consider applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the CA Fair Chance Act and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

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