SENIOR PRODUCER

Become a Devotee!

Devoted Studios is a production management company for external development in video games. With a mission to create equal opportunity for all talent globally to work on the games of their dreams, Devoted Studios aims to decentralize game development. We partner with 1400+ programmers, artists, and designers, from freelancers to small studios, all over the world, and not only match them to project opportunities but manage the production from A-Z.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage timelines and production schedules for 2D and 3D art production. 

• Review vendor estimates, put together production budgets. Own project P&L 

• Manage and own task estimation, identify and timely communicate risks, identify critical path impediments

• Lead production meetings with clients and vendors and create actionable items for the art team

• Collaborate with the Creative Leads on the quality bar for a variety of game art disciplines including: ui, environments, characters, VFX, lighting and animation

• Work with production, engineering and other disciplines to ensure a collaborative, efficient approach to the creative development of the game

• Lead planning and agile sprints for the creatives

• Communication with Vendors / Partners

• Scheduling and managing the projects

• Reporting

Jobs to do on Daily Basis:

• Production related processes and documentation design and implementation 
• Client Communication: 
  • Created bids, decks and proposals for the clients 
  • Presenting with BD and AD team proposals 
  • Leading client production meeting, sending team plans and reports

• Vendor Communication:

  • Based on Clients requests, create vendor RFPs
  • Managing RFP process with vendors from initial request to final estimate and price negotiation 
  • Maintaining good relationship with vendors, communicating bidding process results 
  • Supporting and leading vendors throughout production to achieve highest project efficiency and smooth production
  • Filling in Estimation Summaries based on the collected information

• Project Management:

  • Creating Project Plans
  • Maintain Project P&L 
  • Filling in and maintaining accuracy project start and project management related documentation 
  • Production Risk plan Development 
  • Informing all the participants / reminding about the milestones, key due dates, etc

Requirements:

• English: Advanced 
• PM Experience: 4/5+years at Gamedev projects management
• Thorough knowledge and experience in project management, methodologies and tools
• Attentiveness to details and documents creation is a must 
• Ability to design and document agile production processes 
• Ability to understand and negotiate critical art requests versus displacement of scheduled work
• Experience with JIRA, Perforce and other Project Management Tools
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to present to large audiences including, but not limited to, the senior executive staff
• Strong self-organization skills
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing large internal development teams; ability to inspire and motivate

Become a Devotee!

Join our Devoted Team

(fill out the form or submit your CV to [email protected])