Associate Producer/ Producer
Computer and video gaming industry Experience required
Reports to: Producer or Senior Producer
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| Video Gaming Industry |
Direct reports: None
Position Overview
The Associate Producer will act as a Scrum Master for one or more teams and will be responsible for the Scrum team delivering successfully. In addition, the Associate Producer will assist in the development of the Production process and the adoption of the process across the global development department. The producer is responsible for coaching cross functional teams in Agile methodologies and applying servant leadership practices routinely.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Well-being and productivity of one or more Scrum teams by acting as a Scrum Master
- Directly responsible for the delivery of development projects
- Ensuring the Production process is improved and maintained in alignment with company and industry wide best practices
- Serve as a catch-all for any production tasks the require attention
Management
- Acts as a Scrum Master for one or more Scrum teams
- Coordinates with groups across the company to ensure a successful product or project delivery including Release Management, Documentation, and Support
- Offers solid communication skills, both oral and written.
- Observes deadlines; endeavors to exceed expectations.
Process
- Suggest improvements to the Production process based on best practices and internal team feedback
- Provides instruments for overview and control of development projects
- Reports accurate status of development projects
- Maintains parts of the global production schedule, involved in workshare and assignment and schedule risk mitigation
Knowledge
- Demonstrates a high-level of proficiency with the workflow processes used by the company; investigation and recommendation of applicable software tools and technologies.
- Demonstrates a high-level of proficiency with industry standard techniques for executing Agile in a software development environment; specifically Scrum
- Demonstrates proficiency as a servant leader; ability to coach and motivate teams without direct reporting
Quality
- Demonstrates proper and appropriate techniques in coordination of interdepartmental communication.
- Properly escalates and resolves issue that would compromise the quality of a delivery
Qualifications
Required
- Experience in the software development industry is required
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle
- Excellent communication skills in English in written and spoken form
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Demonstrated ability to excel within a dynamic environment
- Organized, detail oriented, and self-motivated
- Emotional intelligence and a bias for establishing good relationships
- Drive to take ownership of the whole team, product and individual success
- Servant leadership mindset
- Good sense of humor
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Desired
- International experience working with different cultures, languages and/or countries
- Certified Scrum Master with 1+ years Scrum Master experience
- 3+ years working in an agile environment, preferably in a variety of situations
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation and influence skills to achieve results working with internal stakeholders and external partners
- Project Management skills including schedule, resource planning, and risk analysis
- Experience as a software engineer and/or technical lead.
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