Video Game Producer

Job Description

Your Mission

We are seeking a dedicated, experienced Producer to join our team in crafting the next generation of award-winning games. As a Producer, you will play a crucial role in facilitating the development of our games. You will collaborate with teams across departments to meet project landmarks, handle resources to stay within production limitations, and develop innovative processes when roadblocks are hit.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities & capabilities.
• Being responsible for the game development processes on your teams to produce high quality content.
• Supporting your development team(s) to help define and meet project objectives.
• Accountable for crafting and maintaining project plans and schedules for your team/s.
• Recommending and implementing new processes where efficiencies are needed to improve timely delivery of objectives.
• Ensuring all vital project documentation is complete and up to date.
• Establishing and maintaining a productive, communicative, and collaborative working environment.
• Risk management and resolution of conflicts between schedule, scope, and design goals.
• Requirements gathering from multiple and diverse sources and partners.
• Facilitate prioritisation of requirements and features through teamwork and negotiation with collaborators.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• Producer experience of the full life cycle of video-game software development (concept to ship) of at least one published title on console platforms.
• Experience collaborating with internal and external development teams across multiple locations and timezones
• Established and confirmed understanding of core tools, technologies & methodologies for production.
• Multi-tasking capabilities and able to maintain a positive outlook under pressure.
• Strong root cause analysis skills and able to focus on a resolution of the cause and not just the symptom.
• Ability to foresee and communicate risks and obstacles to all collaborators.
• Excellent & concise written and oral communication skills.

Extra Points:
• Experience working with engineering teams within a large central technology structure.
• Solid ability to work under rapid development cycles.
• Experience working in software engineering, or related technical field.
• Confirmed leadership experience including interviewing, employee development & mentoring, performance management, conflict resolution, team facilitation, and project planning.
• Project Management training and certification.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

Your Platform

Sledgehammer Games is situated in the San Francisco Bay Area; Melbourne, Australia; Toronto, Canada; and Guildford, UK. Across our four locations, we strive to be the most inclusive and supportive game studio we can be.

We are extremely passionate about working together to make incredible AAA games for our players to enjoy and connect with. We're the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty®: WWII, and Call of Duty®: Vanguard. With world-class audio, design, engineering, and art teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry.

The strength of our team makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We firmly believe in supporting our talented employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker. We think it's important to be constantly evolving, innovating, and taking risks – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. We love what we do and work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for talented game developers for our exciting next project.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favorite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqpb71-3-144-35-148-42 in your application.