Job Description

Nerd Ninjas is a fully remote, fast-moving, multi-disciplinary team of creative professionals based mostly on the west coast of the USA. We’re working on fun and interesting projects across desktop, mobile, AR, and VR. We seek a Producer to help guide and support the needs of our game developers and designers. You’ll be a central part of empowering an already amazing team to deliver their best work in a timely fashion, with high morale.

Benefits

• Our unique culture is fun, healthy, and anti-drama (you'll love it!).
• Work on cutting-edge projects with big-name developers (such as Niantic, the creators of Pokémon GO).
• Competitive salary.
• 100% paid Medical, Dental, & Vision.
• Flexible schedule.
• Work fully remote in the Pacific Time Zone.
• Travel to Spokane, WA twice a year for very fun and memorable team-building retreats.
• You can call yourself a Ninja 🥷

Responsibilities

• Be a game’s central liaison and primary champion.
• Manage sprints and the day-to-day production schedule of a game.
• At any moment, be able to effectively communicate the status of development, design, and implementation tasks.
• Look ahead to the next sprint/milestone, identifying roadblocks and anticipating needs.
• Facilitate strong team communication by ensuring timely dissemination of information.
• Maximize team cohesion while maintaining company culture and empowering creativity.
• Create and foster daily team practices and processes that help ensure success with milestones.
• Write and maintain specs and other documentation.
• Represent the team to external stakeholders, such as publishers and executives.

Requirements

• 2+ years working professionally as a Producer / Project Manager in video games (or related).
• Experience with accountability, managing resources, timelines, and schedules.
• An effective and inclusive collaborator who embraces feedback.
• Strong analytical and conflict resolution skills.
• Able to adapt to a constantly changing environment while supporting and empowering the team.
• Ability to coordinate smoothly across multiple departments (dev, design, marketing, QA, etc…).
• Experience working with creative, high functioning, and quality-driven teams.
• Self-motivated go-getter.
• Ability to work remotely during core team hours, M-F: 9:00am - 5pm Pacific Time.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.
• Must be a US resident.

Pluses

• Shipped multiple successful titles.
• Hands-on production experience in other departments: art, design, programming, QA, etc.
• Experience with Jira (or other task/bug tracking software).
• Experience with Unity3D (or Unreal).
• Knowledge of FTP (free to play) methodologies.
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Scrum Master.
• Experience writing specification documents.
• Experience with tools such as Photoshop, Figma, Adobe XD, etc…
• Live in the Pacific Timezone.