Associate Game Producer

Job description

Responsibilities

• Drive the completion of project goals and facilitate communication, organization, and process improvement across all departments.• Own the day-to-day tasking and scheduling for programming teams and gameplay features.• Identify and communicate all roadblocks and bottlenecks that may prevent the team from achieving their goals.• Help drive projects to completion by collaborating with team leadership.• Help make informed decisions in conjunction with team leads on work methods, development pipeline, priorities, and available people.• Liaise with WoW engineers to facilitate communication and task awareness.• Facilitate team and department meetings to reach decisions effectively.• Motivate and support to your team. Contribute to a positive work environment and project forward momentum.

Requirements

• A minimum of 2 years experience working in a production or project management role for game development, game support, or on a live software service • Communicate effectively, correctly, and succinctly with software developers• Experience tracking a complex project and providing support to clear blocking issues• Strong project and people management skills, adept at servant leadership• Good time management and process optimization skills • Proficient in the use of JIRA and Confluence• Passion for video games (especially World of Warcraft!)

Pluses

• Fluent in a second language• Willingness to do on-call work• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent