Associate Producer, Sonic Game Production

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Job Summary:

Associate Producer Console

SEGA of America is seeking a game Associate Producer to help deliver Sonic the Hedgehog console and PC products developed in Japan to publish in the Western markets. Our Burbank CAbased Producers are internationally minded professionals who coordinate between our Japanbased development teams our Burbankbased Sonic the Hedgehog Marketing team our Irvinebased Publishing teams and Europebased Localization teams to deliver Sonic the Hedgehog video games product to market on time on budget and at target quality.

We are currently considering a wide range of experienced candidates for this position and are looking for individuals who love games language multiculturalism creativity and can speak with enthusiasm for their product.

Duties and Responsibilities:

In the SEGA Production Department you will spend your days doing the following

• Gathering and digesting information about your production responsibilities and deadlines with the Producer to reassess the current status of the project needs and priorities.
• Checking terminology and naming conventions across the localized languages. High attention to detail is critical!
• Acting with the Producer you will represent the vision and nature of the product in your care.
• Acting as the international conduit for QA setup and LQA execution making sure Producers and QA Leads understand the timing and requirements for testing.
• Communicating internally to support the content approvals and localization needs for the project in addition to keeping those teams up to date with the weekly status of localization.
• Communicating with the internal teams to make sure content approvals publishing needs and product setup and submission are all happening in a timely manner.
• Building resourcing plans and schedules for approval by your managers and alignment with your dev teams.
• Communicating with external vendors to estimate schedule and execute on time on quality and on budget for any production needs the title requires.
• Breaking down your projects into manageable subtasks and getting them done independently.
• Supporting the greater needs of the projects including coordinating internal communications translating and distributing internal documentation getting game text translated or shuffling bug reports. Whatever it takes to get things done.
• Setting up and attending the recording of English voiceover with the legacy Studio Director Game Producer and Voice Talent.
• Coordinating with QA to make sure the quality of the product is assured vetting issues and providing direction to the Development team if necessary.
• Providing proactive guidance and engaging with marketing on external activities related to your product.
• Presenting relevant game information to the Licensing Lore Marketing and Animation teams supporting the Transmedia initiatives and working with them to get the assets and information they need to execute on their plans.
• Keeping the Localization Producer and Game Producer aware of accurate schedules uptodate needs daily bug status reports and updated conversations about the projects under your supervision.
• Making sure internal teams understand what makes your game fun compelling interesting and unique and what is the importance of the title to the brand roadmap.
• Building postmortem lookbacks on your project for the benefit of yourself and the group.
• Playing the games and generating feedback and insight as needed.
• Making sure best practices and policy is followed and implemented within your projects.
• Getting in front of fans and media to talk about and promote your product at tradeshows and media tours.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Working inoffice is an essential function of this position. This requirement of facetoface interaction is in place to ensure effective supervision collaboration and teamwork. Inoffice attendance is required for the following reasons:
  • For effective supervision of employees and our work product which includes ensuring all employees have necessary oversight of their work and access to supervisory assistance which includes meetings to review work product deadlines and status.
  • To foster communication and collaboration among team members which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of ideas quick access to team members to enable collaborative problemsolving and stronger cohesion among coworkers and within teams.
  • To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.
  • To enhance understanding of our stakeholders work and business needs facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

Qualifications and Skills:

You should apply for this job if

• You have at least 3 years of combined production project management and/or localization experience within the game industry and understand what it takes to ship a console and PC video game product.
• You are credited on at least 1 shipped global title on current generation consoles/platforms
• You can speak and are proficient in nearnative English (proficiency in Japanese and additional languages also welcome but not required!)
• You are highly organized love bringing order to chaos and keeping people in the loop.
• You can throw together a production schedule in a heartbeat and follow that up with a plan for addressing the many checks and confirmations required to see the content to completion.
• You have a deep understanding of the importance of proper written and verbal communication required to entertaining a wide variety of people across different languages and cultures.
• You enjoy the responsibility and satisfaction of working with teams all around the world on a shared project.
• You are a wiz at commonly used production tools and formats such as Excel Word PowerPoint MemoQ XLOC and other localization tools and platforms.
• You are accustomed to working across regions time zones and languages and are familiar with the associated challenges.
• You have a proven track record of driving projects to completion.
• You have a strong work ethic positive attitude with a high degree of professionalism.
• Working in multilingual multicultural environments is exciting for you and you have a strong understanding of the language challenges facing the game industry.
• You have extensive experience working with vendors and teams associated with the video game industry including video game voice over recording experience.
• Games are love games are life: Especially games from Japan. You have opinions about them know what makes them good and what makes them bad.
• You can balance the expectations of fans with the needs to a larger gaming audience.
• You can respect the legacy of over 30 years of Sonic the Hedgehog video games and work to preserve the integrity of the characters and terminology across the projects you manage.
• Fly both domestically and internationally to conduct business meet vendors or attend professional industry events.

* Passport and ability to fly internationally preferred.

• Attend media trade and consumer events a couple of times a year.