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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Who We Are
Founded in 2023 2K Sports Lab is the newest stand alone studio at 2K looking to push game development boundaries to bring 2Ks next groundbreaking sports franchise to life. Were building a world-class team at our new Vancouver BC location where our goal is to deliver an exceptional experience through bold ideas technical excellence and creative collaboration. Were seeking passionate and driven professionals across all areas of game development to help shape this ambitious vision. If youre interested in tackling unique challenges and think you have what it takes to level up our team we encourage you to apply!
What We Need:
Our studio is looking for a Producer to partner with Sr. Producers on the team and who sets a high quality bar values efficiency productivity and the satisfaction that comes from helping a team do their best work. Were seeking someone who is passionate about building games and has the ability to inspire teams to strive for excellence. The ideal candidate combines technical expertise with exceptional organizational and communication skills ensuring that projects are delivered on time within scope and aligned with business goals.
What You Will Do:
Your core responsibilities will be to help to ensure timely and efficient delivery of a game area. You will:
Partner with design and tech peers to ensure the impact and quality of established goals and deliverables for your group
Make it your business to become well versed in the features being built for the game which will allow you to run your sub-team and appropriately prioritize the teams work in partnership with designers.
Project Manage your group
Align with the Producer lead to iterate on and develop structure and workflows in Jira and other project management tools such as Flow
Work with the team to help coordinate focus prioritize and track progress
Ensure roadblocks for the team are removed
Decompose long term efforts into incremental steps planning and communicating road maps and risks to all stakeholders
Drive effective process within your group
Work with multi-disciplinary teams of designers engineers and artists to establish prioritize plan and deliver on short term and long term goals for the project
Drive alignment resolve ambiguity and clarify technical and design strategy to improve your impact
Partner with a senior producer to build enhance Jira workflow and tools evaluate and add plugins that will help streamline either workflows or reports and dashboards
Manage the structure and morale of your team in collaboration with your team leads
Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve your teams objectives
Work with dev team (internal) stakeholders and across partner teams (external) as needed to share vision resolve dependencies and ensure timely delivery of feature inputs and requirements
You will play the game. Through understanding our game you will be able to gauge the quality of completed deliverables against the intended quality targets
Who Will Be A Great Fit:
2-3 years of game production experience
Has completed at least 1 full game development cycle from pre-production to shipping
Understands that great teams make great games focuses on healthy team culture and understands how to strengthen team dynamics
Organized excellent communication skills highly collaborative open minded and has a tendency to be curious
Outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills.
Passion for games and cares deeply about product quality is not purely focused on just task management
Excellent problem solver with a high degree of common sense
Experience setting clear goals planning and delivering features with cross functional teams and multiple competing requirements
Excellent project management capabilities documentation tracking and visibility
Attention to detail and completeness ability to see around corners anticipate issues
Strong understanding of technical concepts - has the skill to work with engineers and understand technical implications of their work - the why behind what they are doing not just the what
Project management training in Scrum or other agile framework
Very strong experience with Jira and Flow / Shotgrid - not just using an established framework but also able to build workflows work with and learn new plug-ins and assist with tooling within those tools
Experience in project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
Excellent at cultivating positive working relationships with internal partners and development teams.
An engineering background would be an asset
Love for sports is an asset
The pay range for this position in British Columbia at the start of employment is expected to be between $71400 and $105660 per Year. However base pay offered is based on market location and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates such as job-related knowledge skills experience and other objective business considerations. Subject to those same considerations the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements including a bonus and/or equity awards and eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program. Regular full-time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company including: medical dental vision and basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Companys discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses.
Key Skills
- Promotional Events
- Image Campaigns
- Promotional Campaigns
- Communications
- News Image
- Promotional Content
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Youtube
- Promotional Materials
- Digital Media
- Promotional Spots
- Video production
- Station Image
About Company
2K publishes titles in today's most popular gaming genres, including shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, sports, casual, and family entertainment.
