Job Description

WB Games Montréal, a division of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) is looking for a Senior Producer to join its Game Development team.

Your New Role…

As a Senior Producer, you will oversee technical and feature development teams to identify risk, define processes, establish schedules, define roles and responsibilities, make sure budgets and resources are spent to high ROI and collaborate with Directors and Leads on establishing goals and deliverables.

You will help establish efficient communication and a high degree of collaboration between technical and creative teams, ensuring that the technology and the features developed in the studio are at the service of delivering the vision for the game at the highest possible quality, while making sure that creative teams are aware of the technological constraints of the engine.

You will also facilitate communication and collaboration between your teams and sister studios within WB Games, as well as central technology teams.
The impact of this role is a healthy team who is efficient (knows what to do, how to do it, and why), collaborative (departments work well together), and promotes professional and technical growth. The impact of this role is also to get actual results in the game, by delivering the different milestones on time and quality.

To us it means to:

• Plan, organize and unblock the work of a group of teams.
• Listen, reassure, guide, and coach a group of producers, directors and leads.
• Help the Directors formalize their visions and priorities.
• Transform the vision, intentions, or feedback from the Directors into actual results in the game.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Estimate, plan, and coordinate efficiently the work of technical and features teams throughout the duration of the production cycle.
• Establish and enforce robust processes to guide the work of the team throughout all the phases of the development cycle.
• Oversee, lead, and collaborate closely with internal and external resources to meet production schedules throughout the entire project.
• Establish development priorities and own the technical and features roadmap.
• Deliver the milestones from concept to shipping.
• Work closely with the creative, artistic and design leadership of the project to get a clear vision and define the priorities for the technical teams.
• Organize and oversee the technical and features teams.
• Ramp-up the team (elaborate the staffing plan, recruit, find external partners, etc.)
• Monitor the team performance and productivity.
• Manage, mentor, coach and support directors, producers and other team members.
• Participate to the performance reviews and take necessary measures to motivate employees to meet their objectives.

Qualifications & Experience…

• 10+ years of experience in a producer/project manager/lead capacity.
• Having shipped at least 2 AAA games.
• Having gone through all the phases of the game development cycle (conception to release) in this capacity.

• Strong process-oriented mindset.
• Strong understanding of game development cycle from pre-production to release.
• Experience in supporting production-wise technical teams, is a highly desired asset.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong level of agility and adaptability
• Ability to multi-task to handle a very large number of tasks without losing focus.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• An understanding of both Console and PC development.
• Knowledge of Unreal Engine is an asset.
• Bilingualism French/English is required.