Lightforge Games is looking for a Producer!

We’re looking for a Producer to help the team collaborate at every stage of the development process: gathering and clarifying project requirements, collaborating on execution options and tradeoffs, and delivering projects on schedule without crunching.

You will support multiple feature teams and you will own delivery on diverse and critical projects from feature initiatives to content pipelines, from major milestones to key project management processes.  This role will have a high degree of flexibility, so your previous experiences and talents will help to define the challenges you will focus on first.  From there, you can expect to take on new projects as the team’s needs evolve and you identify next areas for personal growth.

By joining us at this early stage, you’ll be our team’s second Producer and will play a huge role in guiding the direction of our project and team.  We’re looking for someone who loves project management and is excited to help our team break down and solve complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure team hits critical goals without crunching—by establishing and maintaining scope and capacity across multiple workstreams via milestone planning and dependency tracking
• Build process out of ambiguity — create team habits and lightweight tools that fit our team’s needs today and evolve with the team as we grow
• Refine the team’s rituals, processes and tools to empower team to create ambitious work within constraints
• Leverage your expert communication skills to facilitate complex conversations, and help the team navigate these conversations thoughtfully, clearly and empathetically
• Create workflows, roadmaps, schedules, presentations, charts, and other visualizations to help the team collaborate and stay aligned
• Manage external partner relationships, requirements, and deliverables—including outsource studios, contractors, co-developers, platform partners, publishers, etc
• Manage risk by reliably predicting the challenges and potential roadblocks facing your teams, executing on mitigations, and creating contingency plans
• Embrace and uphold our Core Values
• Contribute your story to Lightforge's direction
• Listen to and empower the stories of others

Requirements

• Experience working on a multi-discipline software team in a project management capacity
• Exceptional ability to drive conversations balancing technical requirements, product vision, and schedule
• Strong understanding of game development cycle from pre-production to release and live operations
• Experience implementing and managing agile methodologies
• Ability to support and represent teams of various sizes, experience ranges, and skillsets
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to fully embrace a remote work culture

Pluses

• Experience developing art and content pipelines with in-studio and/or out-source talent
• Developed, shipped, or maintained a live-service game
• Developed or shipped a cross-platform game
• A passion for role-playing video games and tabletop games
• Technical knowledge or experience in one or more other game development disciplines: Engineering, Art, QA, Design, Marketing, Publishing, etc

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