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
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