Ghostpunch Games, Part of the PTW family balances developing multiple award-winning client-led work for hire projects across all disciplines, sizes, and platforms while leveraging those learnings to benefit our exciting internal projects. We are a results focused team that values real time feedback and work life balance. At Ghostpunch Games we enjoy being close to the biz dev process and have a more direct impact on the future of our studio. Ghostpunch Games is a remote-first studio that also offers an in-office option for those who enjoy the South Florida sun.
Producers at Ghostpunch Games serve the teams and departments across our studio by creatively leveraging quantitative and analytical skills, radical candor, and bonafide game development knowledge to ensure the highest quality features and the best quality of life for our team. We enjoy leading, organizing, coaching, and championing our teams to grow and realize our shared potential. Producers at Ghostpunch will own at least one project at a time but have opportunities to grow and take over projects across the studio.
Responsibilities
Utilize your quantitative and analytical skills to identify, prioritize, measure, improve, estimate, and predict bug and task velocities with an eye towards a greater schedule
Manage and coordinate relationships and feedback with our client teams
Coordinate with studio leadership to ensure projects are staffed and efficiently using resources
Proactively seek out and drive mitigations for risks across all disciplines
Ensure your team(s) are delivering on Ghostpunch goals through or alongside our client commitments
Guide, lead, and coach the team to the highest possible feature quality as necessary
Regularly utilize presentation skills to reflect, summarize, and champion your team's efforts
We exercise something called Production Empathy, defined as: "Understanding the situation in which our development team finds itself on the day-to-day and proactively identify, and facilitate solutions between disciplines"
Grow and educate your teammates in the game development framework, Agile, and any other process you or the team create and/or maintain
Champion and be the example of work life balance, culture, and team health
Serve the team by removing and resolving blocking issues and steer their work to always meet our goals
Be aware of game industry trends and regularly share them with your teams and the studio
Requirements
Required Qualifications
At least 1 shipped title end to end in a production role
At least 5 years experience in the game industry
Have experience in most phases of game development
Top notch written and verbal communication
Expert level with JIRA/Confluence, MS Office Suite, Google Suite
Experience with using digital whiteboarding tools
Located in North America. Ideally in United States.
Desired Qualifications
A background in QA, Engineering, Art, Audio, Animation
Familiarity with Hansoft, MS Project, SmartSheets, Shotgun/grid
Familiarity with any query languages
Familiarity with Unity or Unreal Engine
Passionate about gaming and/or gaming culture
Up to date knowledge and ability to create memes, gifs, and emotes
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