Lead/senior Producer - London, United Kingdom - Zynga

Zynga

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Careers Category:
Production

Careers location:
London, UK

Connected Worker Type:
Connected

Requisition Id:
R_110881

At NaturalMotion, we make games that wow people. We innovate to create experiences that previously were impossible and that would not exist without us. We take pride in making titles that reach a large audience and in creating communities that last. For the past six years, NaturalMotion Studios have been named as one of the Best Places to Work in the UK games industry by

Our Racing business is responsible for the CSR Racing franchise, including the #1 Racing Game on Mobile, CSR2 and the groundbreaking next instalment, CSR3.

We are one of the most ambitious, successful, and creatively inclusive studio groups in the world.

Based across three locations - London, Birmingham and Bangalore - the team loves welcoming diverse, humble, straightforward and ambitious talent, aspiring for award-winning excellence.

People who want to find a place where they will be supported and encouraged to do the best work of their career.

We embrace a hybrid work environment.

Within this role, you would work 2 days per week (Wednesday and Thursday) in our London office and the remaining days at home.

Job Purpose:

We are looking for an experienced Lead/Senior Producer, who excels at project management side and has direct and successful experience delivering in one of the following areas: feature development, release management or technical development.

You will partner with the Project Leads to either lead a key delivery team or manage specific area of the game project.

As an experienced Producer at NaturalMotion, you will have central communication and leadership role within delivery structure.

You will be leading by example, planning, resourcing, mentoring, empowering, course correcting, protecting your team or area of development, making improvements, using retrospectives, finding solutions and above else, keeping delivery direction true to the vision and goals as outlined in Acceptance Criteria.

You will work on risk assessment and mitigation, maintaining resource tracker, resolving issues, outlining dependencies, and communicating across the whole project, including Project Leadership.

You will also be tasked with regular reporting out of your areas of responsibility, covering all the points above.

In your daily job, you will be asked to switch between tactical and strategical view. At one day your job can be about quickly reacting to a change, including decision-making and communications.

On the other day, you will have to spend some time thinking about roadmap for your team for 6-12 months ahead.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

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Plan and Execute:working with Feature Owners, delivery teams, leadership, and partner teams, you will capture and track the work state, set backlog & development priorities, clarify roles and responsibilities, clearly communicate goals, report regularly and maintain steady pace of execution
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Manage Delivery:deliver on time, budget and quality while keeping everyone around informed & aligned
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Manage Team: make sure delivery teams are happy, motivated, know what they do and can look forward into the future with optimism
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Triage and prioritize bug fixes maintaining a healthy, manageable, controlled bug backlog
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Collaborate Across Departments: Collaborate closely with Game Teams, LiveOps, and craft leaders to understand their requirements, manage expectations, and ensure alignment
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Establish (when needed), Drive and Maintain regular, high-quality reporting in your areas of responsibility
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Drive processes improvements continuously, supporting and nurturing culture of efficiency
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Lead by example, whenever needed. Set goals, course correct to align with direction, solve problems, communicate clearly, do project direction updates, be honest to your team, your leadership and yourself.
Present transparent progress status and risk plan reporting, as well as quantitative production milestone metrics

Required Skills & Experience:

You will have demonstrable ability in defining, overseeing and executing delivery in gaming environment in one of key areas: feature development, release management or technical development
Knowledge about mobile games and key Design and Product pillars for mobile gaming
Demonstrable ability to say "no" to senior management, while justifying it and proposing solution
Comfortable communicating and presenting across the whole project spectrum from Intern to General Manager and beyond, be it on 1v1, small meetings or big meetings
Strong status and risk reporting skills including executivelevel project reporting
Effective at bringing order out of chaos, excellent prioritization and decision making skills
Capable of being responsible for a defined area of a project, expected to provide best practice input and mentoring to the more junior members of the group