Job Description

WB Games Montreal, a division of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE), seeks a Producer to support Missions multi-disciplinary teams.

Your New Role…

In this role you will be responsible for overseeing all phases of development of a major part of the project from the pre-production phase through release of the game. This product will be focused on the AAA action/adventure space. You will oversee internal and multi-disciplinary development teams, and make sure the product will hit the quality and ship dates determined by WB Games at the beginning of the project. As such, you will also be responsible for managing milestone tracking, team dependencies and content quality in collaboration with the Senior Producer of the project.

Your Role Accountabilities...

PRODUCTION:

• Manage the overall schedule and ensure the quality is in line with expected output.
• Monitor the team performance and productivity.
• Identify and put in place processes and pipelines needed between the various disciplines of the team.
• Establish streamlined processes to ensure clear execution expectations both for the team and the Directors.

COMMUNICATION:

• Partner with the Directors to ensure that the goals of the project are clear to the full team, and direction is clear.
• Partner with the Senior Leadership group to ensure that the vision is cascading through development teams, and prescribed quality is being achieved.
• Ensure communication is clear across the project and that dependencies are well managed.
• Drive meetings and group conversations.
• Manage co-development communication and collaboration.

MANAGEMENT:

• Direct and help grow the staff reporting directly to you and support the leaders of the teams related to your area of the project with the management of their staff.
• Help manage the WBGM relationships with other studios and publishing partners in collaboration with the Senior Producer.

Qualifications & Experience…

• 6+ years experience working as part of a AAA game production team.
• Strong experience and knowledge of the Action-Adventure genre.
• Shipped at least 1 title in a Production Management role.
• Strong process-oriented mindset and willingness to implement them.
• Strong understanding of game development cycle from pre-production to release.
• Experience in leading game development teams.
• Strong familiarly working in JIRA or an equivalent task management software.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse development team, showing respect and empathy for your colleagues.
• 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
• Bilingualism French/English is a highly desired asset.