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Producer
21st Century Fox
San Jose, CA, United States
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OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANYFoxNext
FoxNext is driving immersive, next generation entertainment experiences in the areas of augmented and virtual reality, mobile, console/PC games and location-based entertainment across Twentieth Century Fox Film and Fox Networks Group. The division consists of FoxNext Games, FoxNext VR Studio and FoxNext Destinations.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Producer
Cold Iron Studios
Position Summary
Cold Iron is seeking an experienced Producer to join our world class team on our next AAA title for consoles and PC! Can you not help but care if the team is on target, working on the most important tasks to hit their overall goal? Do you arrange schedules to solve for interdependencies like a wizard and attack work roadblocks like a berserker? Is it a point of personal pride that you know the current status and roadmap of the project like it was tattooed on you?
Here’s the most important one: Do you do it all for the game? Because you know that your talents are needed to make sure that even the best development teams get an awesome experience out the door?
Awesome. Come join our creative, collaborative studio where you’ll own the product management responsibilities for a tight, integrated team of game developers.
Your Day to Day
You can expect to be responsible and accountable for the following:
• Assist in building the product plan while contributing to overseeing development efforts, keeping product development on schedule, within budget and hitting the game’s vision
• Work with team members to ensure timelines are realistic and deliverables are scoped to allow for confident delivery of the highest possible quality within the time allotted.
• Track and prioritize development tasks to make sure we hit team goals on time.
• Be the liaison between the studio and third party development partners, including platform owners, publishers, outsourcing partners.
• Be one with the status of the project. Communicate this effectively to the team, executives and publishing partners.
• Support leads and founders in holding product vision – be a product knowledge base for inside and outside of the company.
• Run meetings and playtests. Drive agendas and achieve defined goals. Communicate the resulting information, decisions and tasks to the team.
• Lead day to day playtesting and manage QA operations
• Handle the localization of pipeline
Your Career Progression
Do the best work of your career! No, really, that’s what we expect of you. Come aboard and work with industry veterans all working to improve their craft and become better game developers. Your portfolio of experience will grow, and the size of the audience you reach will expand exponentially. The small team atmosphere allows you to contribute more and have greater ownership over what you do day to day.
Requirements
• Love of games.
• A minimum of 5 years of industry experience in an internal production role.
• Must have worked on at least two shipped game throughout the entire product cycle.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills with strong attention to detail.
• Extensive knowledge of how games are made.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and follow-through to completion.
• Great interpersonal and facilitation abilities.
• A deep desire to make game development better for all those involved.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, Outlook.
Would Love to See
• Previous hands-on development experience
• Experience in bringing a product through console certification and release cycle.
• Experience in multiplayer, console, RPG and/or shooter games a plus.
• Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Slack, Project.
• Experience with outsourcing management
Education
• No requirement.
Benefits
Aside from the intrinsic value of exciting a huge audience with your creative work, you can expect:
Health and Wellness
• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(k)
• Prescription Drug Coverage
• Life Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Long Term Disability
Perks
• Employee Referral Program
• Education Reimbursement
• Fitness Club Discounts
• Training and Development
• Commuter Incentives and Hybrid Vehicle Purchase/Lease Program
• Merchandise Discounts
About our Location
Cold Iron is a team of passionate game developers located in San Jose, California. We’re a diverse group of veterans with decades of experience developing and launching award-winning MMO and action titles on PC and console.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.