Global Senior Producer | AAA Games - PTW
Austin, TX
About the Job
Job Title: Global Senior Producer
Location: Remote (mostly US-based)
Company: PTW
About Us: We are a leading development services studio specializing in the gaming industry. Our team of highly skilled artists, designers, and developers work with top-tier clients worldwide to create stunning visuals, VFX, and immersive experiences for games.
Role Overview: We are seeking a visionary Global Senior Producer with a passion for the gaming industry to guide our talented team. You will oversee project proposal management and ensure high-quality deliverables that align with our clients' goals, working closely with game developers, creative directors, and production teams, always keeping in mind feasibility, scope, timeline, and budget.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with a team of leaders to develop project proposals including resources across the globe.
- Develop project schedules considering the product’s intended features, timeline, and resources.
- Identify and schedule project milestones.
- Manage RFP schedules and resolve potential conflicts between parallel proposals.
- Maintain consistent communication with all PTW departments and discipline heads.
- Review the practicality of game design and technical design documents.
- Organize subject matter experts around PTW’s Global organization in order to provide the information required for accurate proposal estimates.
- Assist in building world-wide cross-discipline teams with the assistance of subject matter experts, discipline heads, and global talent acquisition specialists in order to execute on approved proposals.
- Facilitate technical and non-technical communication among team members and departments.
- Manage project budgets, game features, resources, and timeline, driving the proposal process from end to end.
- Understand, refine, and disseminate the product vision and provide input for the conceptual design of games.
- Utilize traditional and cutting-edge project management techniques to ensure timely delivery, high quality, effective use of resources, and good team morale.
- Identify areas that could use process improvement, and gather solutions, and help drive them through implementation.
- Collaborate with creative teams and clients to ensure alignment with the project’s artistic vision.
- Help translate client needs into creative direction.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships, ensuring clear and consistent communication.
- Negotiate project scope, timelines, and budgets with clients to ensure mutual satisfaction.
- Provide exceptional customer service, ensuring client satisfaction and fostering long-term partnerships.
Requirements
- Bachelor degree, at least 8 years of production/project management experience and 7 years of proven experience in game development.
- Experience in internal production/project management on at least 4 published game products from inception to delivery at a development studio.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with a collaborative approach to effectively convey creative concepts and ideas to cross-functional teams.
- Excellent communication in English, both written and spoken.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, creative environment with tight deadlines.
- Familiarity with game development pipelines, from pre-production to post-production.
- Experience in AAA and indie game development.
- Familiarity with Unity and Unreal Engines.
- Familiarity with art/audio/development pipelines.
- Project management training from a recognized educational or certification program.
- Membership in PMI or a similar professional project management association.
- Additional spoken/written languages.
Benefits
What we offer
- Permanent and fulltime position with competitive
- 401K and Group Insurance Benefits coverage
- Flexible & remote work model
- Collaborative, dynamic and entrepreneurial culture
Who we are
PTW is a boutique games services company that provides custom solutions worldwide. We believe in accelerating innovation across the globe. We started more than 25 years ago and since then, have grown exponentially year-on-year to who we are today. Our history is in gaming, and we are still gamers at heart. In our time within the games industry, we have worked on over 1,500 titles across all genres and all platforms.
We have grown rapidly over the past few years and now have 16 sites spanning the globe. The PTW umbrella of companies includes SIDE, 1518, OR Esports, and Ghostpunch. SIDE works at the cutting edge of interactive media as a provider of audio services for the global entertainment market. 1518 is known industry wide for world-class art and is also our in-house game and product development studio.
Basically, anywhere in the world, any platform, any genre, we can help come up with a custom solution to make games run better, get to market faster, and enhance the lives of more players.
In summary, we connect and bring fun to the world.