SENIOR PRODUCER

Destineer is looking for a senior producer to help us shape a large-budget military shooter that we’re building with close help from combat-experienced US Marines. This position reports directly to the director of our Raleigh, NC studio.

To qualify, you must have internal development experience as a producer within a successful game development team, exceptional communication and organizational skills, and a talent for motivating people to achieve exceptional results.

Description:

Our Senior Producer is the product’s champion and brings all the pieces together as we build a compelling military shooter for the next-generation consoles. In your tool chest will be a proprietary game engine designed specifically for the game we’re making, a development team filled with more than 65 experienced, professional, and creative individuals, and direct access to Marines returning from the front lines of combat.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manage all aspects of production from concept pitch to gold master to deliver a creative, high-quality product on time.
Work closely with executive management and creative director to achieve project objectives.
Manage production schedules, recurring milestone review process, and approvals.
Establish priorities and coordinate activities within the development team.
Manage project risks and create mitigation plans.
Re-configure task assignments and schedules with leadership to keep project on track.
Facilitate frequent dialog between engineering, art, design, QA, marketing, and sales to ensure open communication, coordination, and creative contribution.
Help set project priorities to ensure that product achieves its creative vision, quality, schedule, and cost objectives.
Work closely with development team during design and execution states to establish and ensure creative objectives.
Work closely with development team and management to establish realistic schedules.
Work with individual team members and team leadership to provide weekly status reports for scheduled tasks.
Manage recurring game play and debugging sessions and work closely with your test lead to prioritize and triage bugs.

REQUIREMENTS:

At least 7 years of industry experience, including several full development cycles as a senior producer with an in-house development team.
Excellent communication and organizational skills. Ability to work effectively in a team oriented environment and provide direction necessary to set or execute the creative vision of the project.
Proficiency with scheduling programs such as Microsoft Project or Fast Track.
Experience managing several projects to a defined schedule, budget, and commercial success using agile software development methods and practices.
Experience coordinating product development efforts with functional teams, such as Engineering, Art, Design, Quality Assurance, Public Relations, Sales, and Marketing, throughout a complete production cycle and across multiple studios.
Strong problem-solving skills.

HELPFUL:

Experience working with Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo platforms and a thorough understanding of the policies and certification requirements of each.
Strong passion for military shooter games.

WHY DESTINEER:

Destineer offers competitive compensation, a 401k plan, stock options, profit sharing, health, dental, and vision insurance, a fridge filled with free stuff, and a fun working environment. But, we also offer other unique qualities for you to consider:

IMPACT. We reject the assembly-line production systems of most large studios, where masses swarm a project and then move on to the next. Instead, we build focused teams of people who stay with a project to completion and are given the responsibility and support needed to create culturally relevant and technologically innovative experiences that we believe will play a leading role on the next-generation consoles.

TECHNOLOGY. Unlike most game developers, we build our core technologies from scratch. We do this so we can make games that look and play differently than games created with licensed engines. Our technologies for the next-generation consoles offer many of the key graphics features of the brand-name engines, but are also architecturally different so we can create unique game play experiences.

RELEVANCE. We make videogames that give players authentic insight into the experiences of our heroes, and we create tools these same heroes use right now to train for their life-and-death operations. We work closely with the guys on the very front lines of America’s military and intelligence activities as we craft intriguing large-budget games based on real-life events. It’s pretty cool going home at night knowing that your work could capture the imagination of millions of videogame players while also preparing those on America’s front lines for their hazardous missions.

ABOUT RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

Raleigh is quickly growing into a major hub of videogame development. The Triangle area of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill is home to over 30 game companies, including Epic Games and Red Storm Entertainment, and is the game engine capital of the world.

Forbes magazine recently ranked Raleigh as the #1 Best Place for Business and Careers and Kiplinger ranked Raleigh one of the seven “coolest” cities in which to live.

Raleigh offers a warm climate year-round, a rich cultural scene, one of the nation’s top-rated education systems, a strong economy, and one of the best standards of living in the country. Beautiful, new 4-bedroom homes within 15 minutes of Destineer’s offices can be purchased for as little as $230,000.

The 1.5 million people who live in the Raleigh area enjoy more than 20 major museums, an international airport that offers convenient and cost-effective travel options, an outstanding selection of restaurants and entertainment, professional sporting events, performing arts, historic sites, beautiful parks, and three of the nation’s top universities. Located near the center of North Carolina, Raleigh is just 2 hours from the coast and 3 hours to the mountains, and Washington DC is only a four-hour drive to the north.