<p>Blackbird Interactive (BBI) is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent studio - behind such games as Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and the upcoming Homeworld 3, Minecraft Legends, and Crossfire: Legion.</p><p>Founded by Rob Cunningham, Yossarian King, and Aaron Kambeitz in 2010, the award-winning Vancouver studio boast its own internal CG cinematics department, led by the founder of Pixar Canada, and has also been involved in various game-adjacent projects over the years - such as Project Eagle with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other initiatives with the eatART Foundation and Sanctuary AI. BBI was listed among the fastest growing Canadian companies by revenue in 2020 and 2021 by The Globe and Mail and Deloitte.</p><p>https://linktr.ee/BlackbirdInteractive.com</p>

Blackbird Interactive

Senior Producer II

Senior Narrative Designer

Senior World Artist

General Application

Compositor/Motion Graphics Artist

Senior Producer with 8+ years experience in game development, leading VR game production, managing stakeholders and team, strong communication skills. 

<div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"><div>Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2022, we announced that our studio is implementing a&nbsp;<b>four-day work week</b>&nbsp;as well as supporting in-studio, remote within Canada, and hybrid work arrangements as permanent options to our employees.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you love it when a plan comes together? Are you able to look at a problem and identify the steps that are necessary to understand and resolve that problem? Are you an expert at cross-platform game development through the entire production cycle? Do you love rallying and motivating a team towards shared goals to build a great game?</div><div><br></div><div>Blackbird Interactive is seeking a Senior Producer to lead the successful delivery of a large IP on VR devices. You will work with talented internal and external teams, help identify their needs, and move them through all project phases, including post-launch.</div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Responsibilities:</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Establish and maintain the product roadmap</li><li>Manage overall project scope and quality, proactively assess and mitigate risk</li><li>Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies, and balance priorities</li><li>Define, drive and own milestones and other project deliverables</li><li>Partner with a technical and creative leadership team to ensure project vision, deliverables, and goals are met</li><li>Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve</li><li>Oversee&nbsp; cross-discipline feature teams and maintain scope and capacity on a daily basis</li><li>Partner with project creative leadership to establish feature goals and deliver features on time and in budget</li><li>Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners</li><li>Establish and maintain regular communication channels with feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders.</li><li>Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members.&nbsp; &nbsp;</li><li>Champion effective production processes identify opportunities to improve processes that will increase quality and efficiency, and help shape the evolution of production practices across the team.</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Requirements:</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects.</li><li>Proven track record of successful releases</li><li>Understands the unique challenges of VR game development and the broader VR market</li><li>Strong understanding of game development cycle from pre-production to release</li><li>Is a steady and practiced hand at steering a game’s production through the different stages of development</li><li>Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project.</li><li>Strategic thinker with high proficiency in various project management methodologies, who knows when to apply which methodologies to drive toward effective outcomes</li><li>Experience working directly with external and publisher stakeholders</li><li>Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.</li><li>Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines.</li><li>Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment.</li></ul></ul></div></div>undefined