Senior Producer - Remote working available

Description

At Lockwood, our vision is to bring people together through Avakin Life so they can play, share and socialise! Listed as one of Europe’s fastest growing tech companies by the FT for 2020 as well as winning numerous TIGA and other awards several years in a row, our journey’s only just begun. With great benefits including an employee share scheme, we’re a super destination for those who want to work on cutting edge social experiences in an environment that fosters communication and creativity. We’re always looking for good people – if you are interested in helping us shape Avakin Life’s future, this is a great opportunity.

We are looking for a Senior Producer who has a track record in full life cycle development and live games and will work closely with cross functional teams, discipline leads, and product stakeholders to successfully support and deliver across Live Ops and product initiatives for AVAKIN.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong relationships and partnerships across the Dev Team,cross-functional, and company-wide groups delivering into the product,
• Ensure product updates, key initiatives and dependencies are tracked and delivered effectively and able to clearly and effectively communicate the status of development progress, risks and issues on an ongoing basis;
• Detail-orientated and an expert at balancing team resources, and building and maintaining production plans to execute against product and development requirements;
  
• Be player, product, and quality-focused and able to motivate teams to improve planning, development, and release processes on a continuous basis to meet product vision, roadmap and quality goals.
• Experienced in Agile (SCRUM, Kanban, Lean) and Waterfall, able to define the most pragmatic process for the situation to plan and manage development efforts;
• Anticipate and address potential problems like resource blockers, quality concerns, schedule and scope changes;
• Communicate effectively to ensure these problems are resolved quickly across development teams and to Leadership;
• Able to succinctly report on status and risks/issues including progress for assigned initiatives, roadmaps, cross-functional production plans, KPIs, and burndowns;
• Conduct regular, effective retrospectives and post-mortem reviews;
• Ensure and promote results driven development;
• Exposure to offshore/remote/distributed teams;
• Support career development for producers and project manager reports;
• Champions high standards for the team and support overall team health;
• Work with 3rd party vendors as required;
• Actively participate and contribute to change and improvements across the studio!