Associate Producer
Seattle, WA
On a day-to-day basis, the Associate Producer will be responsible for assigned tasks related to game development, including such possibilities as coordinating QA and usability testing, preparing project related documentation, coordinating with external vendors creating project assets, evaluating project deliverables and providing feedback to the Producer, facilitate communication with developer by being on-site when required, providing support to Marketing, PR, and other internal publishing functions, and other duties as specified by the Producer.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate communication with internal and external developers on key production aspects as determined by the Producer
- Review, comment on, and recommend approval of milestone submissions
- Provide production support to Marketing, PR, and other internal publishing functions as needed
- Track the delivery of assets by external vendors
- Maintain asset pipelines on the production side to ensure timely delivery of assets as required to promote and publish the finished product
- Prepare submissions for First Party Evaluation (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc.) at key milestones
- Coordinate QA and Usability Testing
- Gather and preparing all assets required for localization processes
- Maintain or managing a single SKU through the entire production process
- Other duties as needed
Job Qualifications:
- 2-3 years working as an Associate Producer or Production Coordinator (or equivalent) in the videogame industry
- Shipped at least 3 titles (multi-platform) in a production capacity
- Ability to travel to external developers (Passport required)
- Excellent written, oral and email communication skills
- Strong project and time management skills with a proven ability to focus on priorities, solve problems, juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems
- Ability to communicate effectively with different audiences on a broad range of topics, e.g. technical, business and creative
- Excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
- Enthusiastic, positive, team oriented, and organized
- Ability to work under tight schedules and high-stress environment
- PC/Internet Skills: Windows, Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Explorer, FTP, etc.
Preferred Experience:
- Prior experience in QA, game design, programming, or art
- Proven track record with highly-sensitive, license-based projects
- Experience working with external developers on multi-SKU projects
- Bachelors degree
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