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Senior Producer - Tools/Tech

England, United Kingdom (On-site)

Senior Producer - Tools/Tech

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Job Description

Senior Producer for Tools/Tech at Larian Studios, must have game development, production, team management and technical background.

Must have:

Game Development
Game Production
Team Management
Technical Background

Good to have:

Global Team
Game Engines
Tools Development
Technical Feature

Perks:

Award Winning
High Calibre

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With multiple awards to our name, Larian Studios has proven that we’re dedicated to delivering high-quality role-playing games. As we move on to new projects, the studio that brought you Baldur’s Gate 3 & Divinity: Original Sin 2 is looking for a Senior Producer (Tools/Tech) to join the team and help us in crafting the high calibre games our fans have come to expect.

Responsibilities

Ensure the tools that are built for developers support their day to day reality, and make their development efforts efficient and painful, by gathering and understanding their needs and requirements, and their current struggles. Follow up on the implementation, involving the content creators often enough to steer development in the right direction.
Balance maintenance, support and fixing bugs against new requests and features. Help create a plan that is aligned with other extra-departmental efforts, that supports surprises and change requests.
Recognise what is ready for the end-user and what isn't, instead of going too far with polish or finishing too soon
Help reproduce the problem, offer solutions
Recognise how much effort different solution requires compared to its impact and frequency of use and align solution and problem
Help translate ideas and requests into requirements and action plans
Communicate and align with other departments
Interpret and prioritise bugs and requests
Help organise and follow up on tools development and technical feature development
As a reality check, play the game and use the toolkit and use pipelines to assess priorities, progress and quality
Help set up, update and maintain a high level roadmap and planning of the tools department and technical feature groups
Track work and progress and react accordingly
Unblock, solve or escalate issues, remove distractions
Identify and set up useful reports for the tools team
Ultimately, ensure delivery and output of the tools team
Help manage (technical) feature groups and ensure delivery according to specs

Requirements

Experience in game development and game production
Experience managing global and local teams
Good English communication, writing and reporting skills
Speaks the language of tool developers and the game developers that work with that tool
Voice of reason and the reality check in the room
Problem solving skills, going into finishing mode, identifying correct priorities
A technical background, a high level understanding of game engines, tools, development
Working with computers is second nature

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Larian Studios

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In 1996, in a small office in Ghent, Belgium, Larian Studios was born. Since then, our passion to create a world class video games has driven the Divinity series - six games that straddle multiple genres and defy expectations. Our first crowdfunded success, Divinity: Original Sin, won over 150 awards and nominations, and the recently-released sequel Divinity: Original Sin 2 launched with a 93 Metacritic rating, as well as over 160 awards (Including the Bafta for Best Multiplayer Game) and counting! Thanks to the success of these two games, our family has grown to over 400 people around the world, working in our Ghent, Quebec, Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Guildford and Barcelona studios. Our latest title Baldur's Gate 3 released in 2023 to critical acclaim and is now listed among Metacritic's Must-Play games.