Producer

LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS•Los Angeles, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for building effective processes to coordinate across languages, cultures, time zones, working styles, and global locations, primarily acting as a key bridge between U.S. and China teams. The Producer will own and manage various feature roadmaps, including scheduling and tracking updates across all feature groups from design requests, engineering support, and game integration. This position requires frequent and effective communication across all departments to ensure visibility, track dependencies, and eliminate roadblocks. The Producer will collaborate with various departments to create, track, weigh resource availability, and negotiate requests to ensure all work is on track for delivery. This role ensures the impact of scope changes is understood and their ramifications are communicated. The Producer will work closely with production teams and development leadership to drive prompt decision-making. This position coordinates the day-to-day work of various teams, including conveying production and roadmap data to steer production schedules and plans. Additionally, the Producer will contribute to developing and refining production processes to increase studio efficiency and quality, and champion long and short-term goals to further the studio’s overarching goals.

Requirements

Full professional fluency in Mandarin Chinese (spoken and written) is required, as this role serves as a primary communication bridge between our Mandarin-first core project team and English-speaking local stakeholders on a daily basis.
5+ years in game production or an equivalent project management role.
Experience developing multi-platform AAA game development.
Well versed in using Jira, Shotgun/ShotGrid, or other industry standard tasking systems, including crafting basic JQL or other equivalent searches to build relevant dashboards/data sets.
Ability to effectively work alongside a variety of different groups including designers, artists, engineers, and animators.
Detailed oriented with strong verbal and written communication skills.
Proven record of handling both day-to-day updates and longer-term strategy planning
Demonstrated proficiency with building, growing, or improving existing development pipelines.
Capable of working independently and multitasking to cover various projects and pipelines as needed.

Nice To Haves

Passion for video games
Project Management Professional Certification
Agile Project Management Certification

Responsibilities

Build effective processes to effectively coordinate across languages, cultures, time zones and working styles and global locations, primarily, acting as a key bridge between U.S. and China teams.
Own and manage various feature roadmaps which includes scheduling and tracking updates across all feature groups from design requests, engineering support, and game integration.
Communicate frequently and effectively across all departments so visibility is clear, dependencies are tracked, and roadblocks are eliminated.
Collaborate with various departments to create, track, weigh resource availability, and negotiate requests to ensure all work is on track for delivery.
Ensure the impact of scope changes are understood and their ramifications are communicated.
Work closely with the production teams and development leadership to drive prompt decision making.
Coordinate the day-to-day work of various teams, including conveying production and roadmap data to steer the production schedules and plans.
Contribute to developing and refining our production processes to increase studio efficiency and quality.
Champion long and short-term goals to further the studio’s overarching goals.