Production Director

Cloud Chamber is looking for a determined and purposeful Production Director to provide daily leadership to our globally distributed production team. You are extremely well versed in the process of AAA console development, a Master of Work Systems for feature and content pipelines.  Under the guidance and management of our Senior Executive Producer you will  oversee project and feature planning, balance scope with capacity, lead resource allocation, track progress, implement processes, and direct risks and mitigation.

To be successful in this role you should have a deep understanding of the iterative nature of creative processes and how to best coordinate them, a previous experience building healthy, high functioning relationships with external and internal vendors, and be seen by your peers and superiors as a force multiplier for your team with a high EQ when it comes to management, empowerment, and motivation.

Job Details:

• Communicate product goals to all team members and align execution to those goals.
• Oversee planning in all development stages from pre-production, production, launch, and live.
• Ensure the appropriate application of project management frameworks such as Agile and Waterfall, as appropriate for a given project/game/team.
• Oversee the strategy for needed tools for tracking and communicating project status, including Shotgun, Jira, PowerBI, Word, Excel (can maintain and create sophisticated spreadsheets), PowerPoint, Perforce, etc.
• Oversee team processes for scope and capacity management across fields and teams, evaluating and evolving as vital to support innovation and improvement.
• Build scenarios and guide the decision-making process.
• Guide teams to achieve our milestones on time and at quality.
• Identify and communicate delivery risks and mitigation plans.
• Maintain an open and upbeat environment that encourages creativity and collaboration.
• Drive communication with project leaders.

Skills, Experience and qualifications:

• Experience leading successful teams. Leading distributed teams across multiple different time zones is a plus.
• Experience running cross-discipline development teams, vendors, and outsourcers.
• Ability to mediate and drive conflict resolution.
• Adept at leading across all levels of an organization.
• Understand the status of the project and visualize that status for any audience.
• Understand the complexities, requirements, and proven best practices of game development production.

We are Cloud Chamber: a collaborative team of inspired minds who create games together. We strive to make unique, entertaining, and thoughtful game experiences that engage the world.

We believe in the beauty and strength of diversity, in both the makeup of the studio and the nature of our thinking.  Our focus on open communication and overall well-being allows each of us to strive for excellence in our work, and happiness in our lives.

We’re currently making the next BioShock. Our passion and love for this iconic franchise is what brought us together. The thrill and responsibility of creating the next iteration of such a beloved game is what keeps us going.

If all of this sounds as exciting to you as it is to us, we’d love to meet you. Join us in creating worlds that move people.

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