Production Assistant

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 and Call of Duty®: WWII. 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 extraordinary 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 next project.

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 a Production Assistant you will assist our teams in achieving our quality and creative goals for our next game. The Production Assistant will work closely with our Producers and Designers to document production schedules, track feature and content status, and communicate team progress to the rest of the production team.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Provide hands-on admin support to our production teams such as taking notes, updating schedules, updating calendars, and sending out studio-wide communications to report team progress.
• Assist in task and bug tracking and management through our internal tools, updating databases and spreadsheets as needed.
• Help to facilitate communication across our development teams and external partners.
• Find opportunities to help your team focus on doing what they do best.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• 0 – 1 years of experience in admin roles in game, film, or technology development Environment.
• Desire to pursue a career in game production.
• General understanding of project management fundamentals (e.g. scheduling, tracking, reporting).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.

Extra Points:
• Experience with a variety of project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Shotgun, Microsoft Project experience is a plus).
• Prior experience as a Production assistant or Coordinator for a creative project (e.g. school project, indie game, film, commercial, etc.).
• Knowledge of specific project management methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, etc is a plus.
• Active video game player across a variety of genres, especially FPS games, also a plus.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzyx61-18-189-170-17-42 in your application.