External Senior Producer - 3PP
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We are nDreams, one of the world’s leading developers and publishers focused on VR games.
Combining innovation with excellence, we are the team behind award-winning games Phantom: Covert Ops and Fracked. Our AAA experience and sensibilities, alongside bespoke VR technologies, give us the skillset, processes and creativity to deliver innovative, high-production games for all VR platforms. We’ve got several exciting projects planned for the year and beyond - we can’t wait to show you more…
Our projects continue to push forward the boundaries of VR and we’re looking for talented people to help us turn them into a reality. Our talented studio now has over 100 people and has been assembled from world-leading games developers and publishers.
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior Producer to join our 3rd Party Publishing team, who is principally an organizer and is responsible for proactively assisting and coordinating external development teams who are contracted to nDreams. The Senior Producer coordinates and prioritises the day-to-day activities of 3rd party developers and nDreams cross-discipline staff (when applicable) at every stage of a title(s) development. They will report to the Head of 3rd Party Publishing.
Key Responsibilities:
- Management of external 3rd party game development projects from initial concept through to final publication
- Development, ongoing tracking and reporting of external development to key stakeholders, including nDreams’ VP of Publishing, Head of 3rd Party Publishing and VP of Business Development, with a particular emphasis on overall projects’ progress, budgets, projects’ issues & risks and potential mitigation solutions
- Assist Head of 3rd Party Publishing with the creation and maintenance of a strategic capacity roadmap for the 3rd Party Publishing.
- Ensuring that strong communication is maintained between nDreams, 3rd party developers and 3rd party platform holders via both personal and electronic methods including the secure transfer of key deliverables
- Key liaison between external Development Team(s), Brand, PR, and Marketing teams, 3rd Party platform holders and 3rd party service providers (QA, Localisation etc.)
- Helping external development teams to establish and maintain realistic project scope and ensuring that they do not suffer from ‘feature-creep’
- Ensuring that titles come in on budget and achieve the high-quality standards required by nDreams
- Performing and refining good project management techniques to ensure the smooth and efficient delivery of development milestones
- Proactively identify, report, and assist in unblocking any day-to-day issues arising within external development to keep production efficient and operational
- Conduct ongoing risk analysis on all external projects and provide mitigation solutions to all stakeholders
- Review all milestone deliverables and provide timely feedback to 3rd parties
- Ensure that games can meet the technical requirements of 3rd party platform holders
- Evaluate internal procedures, and processes and constructively work with the team to find solutions
- Inputting into the development roadmap, keeping all studios and stakeholders aware of developments throughout the project lifetime (including post-launch and service support)
- Management, organisation, mentoring and coaching of other members of the external production team
Requirements
Essential capabilities
- Experience producing games on other platforms including some combination of console, online and social games from concept through first release and ongoing product updates.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects, including the details of production such as design, asset and build pipeline, schedules, budget, and quality assurance.
- Must have successfully developed and managed people, resources and schedules
- Be highly organised, and experienced in running multiple projects and delivering to tight deadlines.
- Strong track record of managing teams with the successful production of impactful customer-facing games.
- Have a can-do attitude, a person that is a doer and not afraid to ‘muck in’.
- The abundance of engaging leadership.
- Engaging and convincing personality with excellent communication skills.
- You will have experience having worked with both internal and external development team(s).
Benefits
Why nDreams?
Our expanding company shares a passion for innovation, collaboration and leading the future of VR. We encourage an open and diverse culture and empower people to explore ideas and put their own stamp on their work. With humble beginnings of our own, we combine amazing projects and opportunities with a personal, caring touch.
We offer some great perks, including flexible hours, duvets days, your birthday off, dedicated personal development time, and regular socials and parties, alongside holiday, pensions, health insurance, life cover and more. Our newly refurbished office has some fantastic facilities and is built around collaborative work (and play!).