Lead Producer, Live Operations
Company: Cultivategrandrapids
Location: San Mateo
Posted on: May 24, 2023
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Job Description:
Lead: Live Service Games
As one of the leaders within the gaming industry, PlayStation
Studios is focused on how we approach Games-as-a-Service as a part
of our strategic outlook for the future. As the Sr. Producer
focusing on live service titles, you will lead a partnership with
internal studio development teams, not only ensuring the success of
the game, in the creation of the overall strategy but in its
execution to quality as well!
You will be based in the PlayStation Studios San Mateo HQ and will
manage the design and execution of operational processes that
result in high-quality, live services games with robust content
plans. Additionally, you will collaborate across and unify
multidisciplinary teams as a critical driver in ensuring consistent
live service delivery resulting in the best possible player
experience. Reporting to the Senior Director of Product
Development, you will actively partner with developers, global
business units and key stakeholders to help define our live service
strategy, products, and offerings.
Responsibilities
- Take the lead as the development team's primary point of contact
with corporate teams, working with developer for project goals and
milestone schedules, submission planning, and overall development
plans; provide ongoing management check and balance throughout the
full product life cycle.
- Review and evaluate game builds and milestones across design,
creative, development, and production progress.
- Lead the coordination of live service product strategy, working
with internal PlayStation resources to optimize planning in order
to drive growth and user engagement, deliver on commercial targets
and ensure continuous delivery against product goals.
- Advocate and Educate service partners on live service core
competencies, requirements, and best practices necessary to deploy
and manage a live service game.
- Work with the Analytics and Consumer Insights teams to provide
reporting and data-informed insight to ensure we are identifying
the right things that enhance the player experience.
- Coordinate with Managing Producers to supervise and guide
activities for both internal and external development resources;
advocate for process improvements to improve the player
experience.
- Coordinate with Marketing, PR, Customer Support, Publishing,
Finance teams and external partners to bridge product development
and operations so that live service knowledge is shared and
supported.
Qualifications
- A minimum of 7-10 years of project management or product
development with demonstrated ability shipping successful projects
in a AAA studio with live video game content on console and PC.
- Comfortable communicating and sharing information across a wide
array of technical expertise to all levels of the organization.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills. Ability to apply
creative solutions within business constraints.
- Robust understanding of game design and the player experience.
Must be able to articulate how game systems and features provide
quality and fun to the consumer.
- Demonstrable experience supporting complex cross functional
projects with successful delivery of quality, schedule and in
balancing scope, capacity, budget, risk, and time.
- Experienced decision-making with both qualitative and
quantitative data, can articulate the value of each in an
analysis.
- Insatiable curiosity and strong knowledge of market trends,
customer insights, monetization & business models,
emerging/ground-breaking technologies, and advancement in digital,
social, mobile executions across all industries.
- Must have outstanding interpersonal and negotiation skills to
handle sophisticated situations and recommended solutions.
- Proactive self-starter, but also a team player. Ability to listen
to and understand various viewpoints and help guide diverse global
workgroups to common solutions.
- Must possess a deep knowledge of current and historical game
industry trends, and enjoy playing all types of games.
- Mobile experience is a plus.
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