Producer 2

Job description

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in… The **Producer 2** is the custodian of the project roadmap and release schedule for a development project, responsible for moving the development team from one project phase to the next while ensuring a strong focus on quality, collaboration, and communication. They partner with key stakeholders to ensure the project is managed on time, to quality, and within budget, while also mentoring and advising project-assigned Producers on schedule management across agile and live service workflows. **This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our Downtown Vancouver studio.** ### In this role, you can expect to: **Key Accountabilities:** - Custodian of the Project Roadmap and Release Schedule; mentors and advises project-assigned Producers on schedule management tactics within development cadences. - Spots risks and dependencies well in advance; actively tracks and mitigates them within the project or shared function. - Proactively identifies and resolves conflicts between schedule, staffing, technology, and design objectives across a single project. - Owns the execution of budget and resource strategy. - Designs functional workflows and approval steps tailored to development rhythms. - Interfaces with key stakeholders and team leads to manage scope and quality. - Collaborates with key stakeholders to establish KPIs by which to measure phase success in a live-service context. - Presenter at Business Review and Phase Gate reviews. - Mentors more junior Producers, supporting their growth and career development. - Accountable for project team capacity and health. **Leadership:** - Supports skill development for others; inspires teamwork; creates and sustains a positive work environment. - Sets the tone for positive team culture and contributes to a healthy, collaborative, and high-performance environment. ### To be successful in this role, your background includes: - Bachelor's degree in a related field or certification in project management with a focus on Agile methodologies. - 5+ years of project management experience in entertainment and/or software development. - 2+ years in a leadership role with people management experience. - Experience setting up and running Jira and resource management tools. - Deep understanding of games-as-a-service business model and live ops cadences. - Direct experience leading all major game phases (concept, pre-production, production, live operations). - Effective communication skills with the ability to influence outcomes across all levels of the organization. ### Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people: - **Extended Health Coverage:** effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more. - **DEIB Benefits:** DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs. - **Flexible Spending Accounts:** our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account. - **RRSP Matching:**everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us. - **Commuter Benefit:** we believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and want to support you in making it work for you! We provide a flexible, monthly cash allowance to help cover the costs of transit, parking, or even personal logistics like childcare and pet care. - **PTO and Parental Leave:**we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures. - **Employee and Family Assistance Program: t**his program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being. - **Telus Virtual Health:**we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home. - **Learning and growth:**We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend. - **Pay transparency:** We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion. - **Cool spaces:** Our offices are in Vancouver, Montreal, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, or watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile! - **Giving back:** Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!