Producer - Electric Square, Malta
Electric Square, Malta
Job Description
At Electric Square, the worlds we create are crucial to our games and in delivering fantastic experiences to our players. Our portfolio includes ‘Forza Street’ and ‘Hot Wheels id,’ with ‘Assassin’s Creed VR’ and electrifying AAA console games currently in development and even more about to start! Together with 4 studios, 230 people, 8 projects (and our studio dogs!), we offer world-class projects with a unique studio culture to ensure our teams feel empowered and inspired
We can offer you an award-winning working environment. At Electric Square, we don't just accept difference we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Electric Square is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated Programmer to join our brand new Malta based studio!
The producer will have responsibility for the game’s production; ensuring the project delivers quality, on time and on budget. Most importantly, the successful candidate will have a passion for quality and a knowledge of video games. Reporting to the Lead Producer, you will be charged with planning, organizing, scheduling and monitoring these areas and facilitating regular meetings and inter-team communication.
Responsibilities of a Producer at Electric Square Malta:
- Assist the team in the development of a high-quality product, on time and to budget.
- Development and on-going monitoring of the organization, execution and control of project activities within one or more sub-areas of development.
- Prepare and monitor development schedules and see them through their successful conclusion.
- Maintain effective communications with all team members.
- Facilitate and Chair weekly meetings with sub-team(s).
- Assist the team to prepare regular milestone deliverables to submit to external management.
- Consistently achieve and sustain overall sub-team productivity.
- Routinely work to ensure effective open communication and helping to establish clearly defined goals and objectives.
- Help to ensure that new members are made welcome and are successfully integrated into the team.
- Remove impediments between development and business stakeholders
- Facilitate processes to enable the business to maximise ROI
Requirements
- A minimum of one years’ high-level project and team management/coordination experience and experience of managing or coordinating F2P mobile projects.
- Strong technical skills, including a competent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, essential for planning and tracking and the ability to understand technology issues.
- Flexibility and adaptability; assertiveness and persuasiveness;
- Proven organisational skills; effective in written, verbal and aural communication; and the ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- The ability to anticipate problem areas and initiate appropriate and decisive corrective action/s.
- Able to balance technical solutions with time, cost and human factors; and to devote the necessary time to planning, directing and controlling team activities.
- Good understanding of human behaviour; the ability to maintain a proper balance between organisational and human elements.
- Able to work independently on routine tasks with little supervision.
- An enthusiastic gamer and good knowledge of multi-platform video games and the entertainment software industry.
Desirable
- Practical experience and / or understanding of Scrum / Agile project management methodologies.
- SAFe (scaled agile framework) certification - 1+ years
- Live Operations experience
We also welcome applicants from Senior amp; Lead Producers.
Benefits
When you join Electric Square Malta you can expect to enjoy a unique culture. The Studio knows that it’s the best people that make the best games and this is what Electric Square invests in.