About the job
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Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain the product roadmap
- Manage overall project scope and quality, proactively assess and mitigate risk
- Manage resource requirements, establish dependencies, and balance priorities
- Define, drive and own milestones and other project deliverables
- Partner with a technical and creative leadership team to ensure project vision, deliverables, and goals are met
- Evaluate development processes for success and iterate when the team and product need to evolve
- Oversee cross-discipline feature teams and maintain scope and capacity on a daily basis
- Partner with project creative leadership to establish feature goals and deliver features on time and in budget
- Establish and manage relationships and processes with key stakeholders, publisher and external partners
- Establish and maintain regular communication channels with feature teams and coordinate dependencies with stakeholders.
- Mentor, coach and support producers and other team members.
- 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.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 8 years experience in a producer/project manager capacity across full-cycle projects.
- Proven track record of successful releases
- Understands the unique challenges of VR game development and the broader VR market
- Strong understanding of game development cycle from pre-production to release
- Is a steady and practiced hand at steering a game’s production through the different stages of development
- Adept at preparing mitigation and contingency plans before problems occur within a team or project.
- Strategic thinker with high proficiency in various project management methodologies, who knows when to apply which methodologies to drive toward effective outcomes
- Experience working directly with external and publisher stakeholders
- Passion and enthusiasm for games and game development.
- Effective communication skills across all levels and disciplines.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic and collaborative team environment.
About The Company
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.
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.
https://linktr.ee/BlackbirdInteractive.com
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