Senior Producer

1 Hour ago • 5-10 Years • Game Production • Undisclosed

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Job Description

Arrowhead Game Studios is seeking a Senior Producer to oversee game team production, support stakeholders, and guide a project to success, delivering player value. Responsibilities include collaborating with game leads on problem-solving, acting as 'master of ceremonies' for the team, managing risk, modeling team velocity and capacity, managing budgets, maintaining a prioritized backlog, and ensuring adherence to best practices. The ideal candidate will have extensive production experience on mid-size game teams, a proven history of managing complex products, experience shipping similar titles with systematic and procedural gameplay, and strong communication and collaboration skills. The role requires working in-office with a collocated team in Stockholm, Sweden.
Must have:
  • Extensive production experience on mid-size game teams
  • Proven history managing 20+ developers
  • Shipped similar titles (systematic/procedural gameplay)
  • Strong communication & collaboration skills
  • Risk management & problem-solving expertise
  • Budget management and cost analysis
  • Product backlog prioritization
Perks:
  • Pet-friendly office
  • Numerous employee benefits


If you’re looking to make the best co-op games in the world, you’ve come to the right place. We're proud to have some of the best game makers and collaborators in the industry working with us. What's more, we're a fun bunch of game developers, who love to indulge in our passion for video games together. Our games are not for everyone. Are they for you?

We are now looking for a Senior Producer

We are looking for an experienced Producer to join one of our future game teams to be responsible for overseeing the game team production and support the project stakeholders to achieve the product goals and vision. They are responsible for guiding the game to success and deliver on creating player value! They are an effective communicator, great collaborator, team builder and champion, as well as being structured, thorough and resourceful.
The Producer is expected to be product focused, exploring opportunities and discovering what is crucial to delivering the best possible player experience, while delivering against the studio and business objectives through the game’s successful outcomes, on time and within budget.

Who you are: 

The Producer works collaboratively with the game leads and the team to problem solve and plays the role of ‘master of ceremonies’. In this way the Producer nurtures the rhythm of the team, and ensures that we work to best practice with planning, retrospectives, and effective production practice in general.

The Producer is also responsible for risk analysis and management, prompting decisions and increasing the project’s planning horizon. They are also responsible for modelling the team’s velocity and capacity matched against the scope of the game, ratifying production timelines and costs and managing the budget alongside the game director.

The Producer is expected to work in-office together with the collocated multidisciplinary team.

  • Relevant and extensive production experience on midsize game teams, in one or more game areas
  • Proven history of managing complex products, overseeing a project or area of 20+ developers
  • Understanding of the product development lifecycle and production best practices
  • You have shipped similar titles to our games which focus on systematic and procedural approach to gameplay
  • Experience in managing others or working through others to achieve results

What you'll do:
  • Collaborating with project leadership on risk management, problem solving, and issue tracking
  • You will be responsible for the production output of the game team and provide support to achieve results, goals and outcomes, on time and within budget
  • Playing the role of ‘master of ceremonies’ ensuring the team holds to development and production best practice
  • Maintaining a prioritized product backlog and seeks to increase the team’s planning horizon and roadmaps
  • Models for velocity, capacity and costs of pipelines, content, features and systems, as well as maintain accurate lists of the product scope
  • Provide excellent communication and increase transparency and visibility for all partners, project leadership, stakeholders and the team
  • Role model to the team and champion of the product development process
  • Considers all aspects of the product and player experience relationship, championing the discovery process of exploring and validating ideas, and measuring performance through UX and other results.


How to apply

If you think that this position matches your background and skills, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV in English as soon as possible. We ask that your application always include relevant work samples or a link to your portfolio.

We interview candidates continuously and hire when we find a good fit.


Practical Information

Scope: Full-time: 40 hours per week with initial 6 month probation period.
Location: Office first, hybrid solution possible. You need to be eligible to work in Sweden.

We are a pet friendly office! You can expect to find dogs and occasionally some cats around.


What we offer

Arrowhead Game Studios is a growing team of about 100+ people, best known for our co-op titles. Despite our size, we remain a friendly and down to earth bunch, who love to indulge in our passion for video games together.

Located in a newly built, custom-tailored offices on the Hammarby Kaj waterfront, we enjoy everything Stockholm has to offer. A thriving game dev scene, along with all types of activities are immediately available on our doorstep.

Our talented developers are crucial to our success, therefore we put a lot of emphasis in creating and maintaining a prosperous culture. We’re committed to open and transparent communication. Your ideas are welcomed, valued, appreciated - the ceiling for creative discussions is high.

We also have numerous work benefits for all our employees. You can read about them here!

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About The Company

“A game for everyone is a game for no one”


Arrowhead Game Studios is located in Stockholm, Sweden and we are a game developer focusing on creating immersive games for Console and PC. We have a team of ambitious, friendly and fun-loving developers challenging the game industry, while aiming to deliver an entertaining and high quality gaming experience. We’re most known for our co-op games and are the developers behind Magicka™, The Showdown Effect™, Gauntlet™ and Helldivers™. 


Believability, Sociality and Playfulness. 

These are the design pillars we take seriously here at Arrowhead. They mean that we aim to create games that have believable world design, gameplay that creates social connections between players and a playful approach to the game where you feel as if you are immersed in a fantasy. Arrowhead is always on the lookout for developers to act upon these pillars in developing our future AAA console title.


By challenging the creativity of the players, we create memorable experiences with humor and social interaction, that leaves you with stories to tell. We are known for our uncompromising game mechanics and intense cooperative gameplay, and are well underway of our next project: a 3rd person shooter featuring next-gen graphics, innovative co-op and agency for the community to alter the course of the game. This AAA game will share the satirical humor that fans of our previous games know and love.


Each team member at Arrowhead is passionate about making a kickass effort in order to create great games. To achieve this, we believe it is important to have dedicated, friendly and helpful people around you. We offer a driven and creative environment where small cross-disciplinary teams work tightly together to provide next generation game play experiences.


Are you interested in joining our kickass team? You can find all our current job openings on our jobs website: https://jobs.arrowheadgamestudios.com/

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