Production Manager, Co-Development

Job Description

We are looking for a highly talented, motivated, and experienced person to work with us on XDefiant, a new multiplatform online multiplayer action game based in our San Francisco studio.

This is a Hybrid role with occasional onsite at our SF Studio and requires location based in the Bay Area.

XDefiant is a free-to-play, fast-paced arena shooter that combines intense gunplay with personalized loadouts and specialized factions, as teams of gunfighters battle for domination.

Job Description

Co-development is a unique and core part of Ubisoft's game development philosophy. The co-dev production manager ensures the successful partnership and deliverables of our inter-studio collaborations, building and maintaining clear communications and process between our San Francisco and its associate studios.

This role is a mixture of project management and diplomacy.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Production Management:
• In collaboration with the stakeholders and producers in the respective studios, supervise the work carried out by the collaborating studios during each development phase of the feature, content or code
• Keep associate studios included and informed of relevant current milestone goals, priorities, and issues that may affect them
• Keep the associate studio/team on task and on-target. Know where the associate studio is tracking to their current milestone, keeping the co-dev producer and production teams informed
• Continually asses and mitigate risks throughout entire collaboration. Make suggestions for improvements to development processes, pipelines, and communication
• Contribute to the implementation of co-development mandates with collaborating studios, communicate the mandate to the teams, make any necessary adjustments and ensure a good working relationship throughout the production process
• Help prepare collaborations: communication networks, associate studio training programs, site visits, etc. Help to onboard new teams and transition teams off
• Ensure that the studios that are geographically and culturally distant build trusting relationships and feel part of a single, large team
• Keep documentation updated as mandates change
• Understand the game vision and priorities, to be able to intervene and guide when defining the Keep the co-dev producer informed on potential or actual collaboration issues and collaborate around possible solutions
• Support co-dev teams when they're blocked from achieving their commitments to the project

Qualifications

WHAT YOU'LL BRING
• Mid level relevant experience in team coordination/management in a game development team
• Experience in video game production; technical or feature development experience preferred
• Preferred experience with remote workers and/or with distributed teams
• Ability to adapt to different people with different personalities and from different cultures
• Good listening and diplomacy skills; always looking for optimal win/win solutions
• Impartial and solution oriented; ability to see many sides of an issue
• Comfortable with Influential Leadership (rather than direct control)
• Clear communication in writing and spoken, with a emphasis on follow-up and closure
• Bilingualism is a bonus
• Available for travel

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ro0754-3-145-0-146-42 in your application.