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Producer
Bally Technologies
Austin, TX, United States
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The Producer owns and optimizes the product development process. The role of a producer is to work with the team to reach its goals by ensuring development runs smoothly, assisting in communication between the departments and helping the team stay in the loop on the ever-changing live game landscape.
Essential Job Functions:
• Sprint and feature planning to ensure the team is able to meet its goals on time. This includes scheduling featuring kick-offs and managing the development process through final feature reviews/game integration.
• Create, maintain, and communicate project roadmaps, schedules, release plans, and release notes. Own the process of creating and maintaining tickets in JIRA to ensure no part of a feature or bug falls through the cracks. Follow up with developers to make sure their tickets are up to date.
• Run the daily team stand-up meeting, keeping the discussion on track and moving forward. Communicate with the team regarding live-game issues, take notes, and follow up on any issues that are left unresolved.
• Manage game and feature documentation in Confluence. Keep pages up to date with the latest information and communicate changes to the team.
• Oversight of the QA process from test plan creation through final release candidate verification
• Responsible for mentorship, evaluations, conflict resolution and recognition of the staff to maintain highly motivated and engaged employees.
• Constantly play the game and test new features while in development to ensure they meet the quality standards set forth by the game team to-date.
• Play games. Keep your finger on the pulse of mobile gaming, both in and out of the social casino space. Present interesting findings to the leadership team.
Position Requirements
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Required Experience:
• 5+ years of professional work experience
• 2+ years of experience leading teams or managing projects
• Project management experience and demonstrable track record of scheduling and completing projects on time
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
• Familiarity with game play features of current casino video and mechanical slots
• Passion to create fun games with an engaging player experience
• Adept with Word and Excel (or Google Sheets)
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• High proficiency in Agile Project management software tools (Trello, JIRA, basecamp, etc..)
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Excellent problem solving and time management skills
Preferred Skills:
• Video game development, particularly in mathematical and puzzle games
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