Creative Assembly's award-winning team behind Alien: Isolation are exploring new frontiers with a brand-new and exciting First Person Tactical Shooter IP.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Producer to join our talented production team at our studio in Horsham, based in heart of Sussex, England.
In this exciting role, you will work alongside and assist the Live Operations Director and Development Director to oversee and support the development of the game up to release and into the live operations phase.
Key Responsibilities
As the Senior Producer on the project, you will be responsible for the day-to-day process of managing cross-discipline teams, specifically managing production for the live operations infrastructure. You will also help form the Live Operations team, and then establishing live operations processes and taking them forward.
On a day to day basis, you will:
Focus the team on the key priorities and track the progress toward goals
Managing the development team schedule; meeting milestones
Ensure tech and decision pipelines are freed up
Help the team plan each sprint while keeping the team positive and motivated
Communicate all relevant changes with key members of the team and adapt the schedule.
Communicating the reality is more important than adhering to a schedule that cannot be met, yet this role should be constantly helping the leadership team find the right trade-offs to keep as close to schedule as possible. Yes, it's a challenge, but that's what makes it interesting!
The role will also require the development and fostering of positive relationships and cohesiveness within the team and other relevant third parties including internal relationships with SEGA.
Knowledge, Skill and Experience
Essential
Proven experience of delivering AAA games with a minimum of 2 shipped AAA titles; at least one of which has a Live Operations service
Exceptional organisational and communication skills.
Driven and self-motivated approach to work
Able to identify and assess risks and strategise to mitigate
A skilled and thorough planner. Scheduling, planning, tracking and resource allocation.
Up-to-date knowledge and a keen interest in methodologies
Experience with Agile/Scrum
Adapts well to change - able to evolve and adjust plans to the current best knowledge
Excellent problem-solving skills. Aware of potential and current issues and formulate pragmatic plans to solve them
Finding better and more efficient ways of working. Our people are our most valuable asset; support them to be successful
Great judgement, consistently taking into consideration the priorities set by the project directors
A team thinker - able to work within a team and to actively work to make the team perform cohesively.
Desirable
Experience working with server-based game services
Advanced skills with software such as PowerBi, Excel, PowerQuery
Previous experience working with one or more of the following:
QA
Localisation
Outsourcing
Wikis
SharePoint and office macros