Lead Producer - Game Operations | Fully Remote

Escape Velocity Entertainment Inc

14h • Remote

About The Position

Escape Velocity is seeking a seasoned Lead Producer to lead development of a new IP and help deliver a major new title. The role requires senior project leadership, experience building new IP and teams, and the ability to support creative leaders in realizing their vision. The position is fully remote, with the studio supporting team members nearly anywhere in the world.

The Lead Producer will manage internal and external teams across multiple locations and support the strategic and tactical operations of release management, Dev Ops, Live Ops, Technical Art, and other technical groups. The role also partners with producers on budgets and schedules, works with the Executive Producer to maintain consistent development processes, mentors producers, and helps teams set and deliver coherent goals from milestone to milestone.

Escape Velocity describes its culture as valuing honesty, autonomy, worthwhile use of colleagues’ time, play, and continuous improvement. The studio is an equal opportunity employer and considers applications regardless of protected characteristics.

Requirements

• 10+ years in internal game development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience with strong applied technical knowledge.
• Experience building and leading teams across multiple locations.
• Experience building AAA games.
• Ability to guide and lead staff across production and creative disciplines while ensuring a healthy level of push and pull.
• Excellent communication skills and emotional intelligence, with the ability to rally a team.
• Calm and stable approach to managing complex problems.
• Ability to interface with all levels of the organization.
• Resourceful, self-motivated, and able to act autonomously.
• Expertise with JIRA and Confluence, and experience using metrics to drive improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage internal and external teams across multiple locations to meet production schedules and deliver the project to quality, time, and budget expectations.
• Support the strategic and tactical operations of Release Management, Dev Ops, Live Ops, Technical Art, and other technical groups.
• Apply a strong technical understanding of software release frameworks, including merge and branching strategy, bug fixing and build locking, finalizing builds, and releasing them to the public.
• Work with Producers to develop product budgets and schedules across the team.
• Partner with the Executive Producer to ensure core development processes are followed consistently.
• Mentor producers at all levels and support their growth and career development.
• Ensure coherent goals are set for each milestone, understood by the team, and executed.
• Coordinate and assist with focus testing, outsourcing, and other external parties as required.
• Identify and analyze risks and provide mitigation.
• Balance production and creative needs to support informed decisions.

Benefits

• Generous PTO allowance.
• Summer and Winter holidays during studio closure, separate from the PTO allowance.
• Private medical and dental healthcare.
• Private mental health scheme.
• Annual health and wellbeing allowance.
• Discretionary studio bonus.
• Top-range technology for home setup.
• Other benefits based on region.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior