Associate Producer

Job Description

Your Platform

Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Melbourne, Australia, Toronto, Canada and Guildford, UK – Sledgehammer Games is the videogame development team behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty®: WWII, and Call of Duty®: Vanguard. Since our founding in 2009, our greatest passion has been making AAA games. The strength of our team makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We firmly believe in supporting our passionate employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker.

We are constantly evolving and innovating – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. With our outstanding audio, design, engineering, and art teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We love making games and we work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for dedicated game developers for our exciting upcoming projects.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favorite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

Your Mission

As an Associate Producer, you will play a crucial role in facilitating the development of our games. You will collaborate with teams across departments to meet deadlines, manage resources to stay within production limitations, and develop innovative processes when roadblocks are hit.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Running the execution of the game development process to produce high quality content.
• Working with development team(s) to define and meet project landmarks.
• Accountable for crafting and maintaining project plans and schedules.
• Running project resources and needs to meet production schedules and budgets.
• Recommending and implementing new processes where efficiencies are needed to improve on-time or on-budget delivery.
• Ensuring all vital project documentation is complete and up-to-date.
• Establishing and maintaining a productive and communicative working environment.
• Identifying and resolving issues between schedule and design goals.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• At least 2+ years' experience in the entertainment software industry in a project management, production, or coordination role.
• Production experience of the life-cycle of video-game software development of at least one published title on console, PC and/or Mobile platforms.
• Ability to complete root cause analysis and suggest solutions for removing such inefficiencies.
• Ability to foresee, communicate and handle risks and obstacles with all collaborators.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience running either internal or external development teams.
• Solid ability to work under rapid development cycles.
• Able to successfully employ standard software development tools such as Excel, JIRA, Confluence, etc.

Extra Points:
• Bachelors' degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field or meaningful work experience.
• Proven experience with project management software, including project life-cycle models, risk assessment, and team management/motivation.
• Project Management training and certification.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1b61x-18-117-152-251-42 in your application.