Job Description

Job Details: 

Job Title: Producer III

Duration: 12 months contract

Location: Menlo Park, CA 94025

Summary:

• Client is looking for a Producer to join the AR team focused on shipping best-in-class creative expressions and communications for the company. 
• The Producer will establish and maintain operational procedures and tools for the creative team, align with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth and consistent communication between all key stakeholders, as well as identify and manage external creative teams to support product. 
• The Producer role requires broad knowledge of design and development processes, excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with creative leads to set strategy and goals for creative development efforts
• Establish and maintain project production schedules to ensure a smooth end-to-end development plan that meets product goals and quality bar, and ensures that all assets are delivered on time and implemented to spec
• Establish and maintain an efficient and flexible project process that facilitates the creation, review, feedback, revision, deployment cycle of art asset production
• Strategically source and manage resources to keep project on-track
• As point of contact for team communication, establish clear communication channels and process across creative and cross-functional teams, including PMM, PD, Eng, QA, Legal and Policy
• Schedule, manage and address cross-functional feedback and stakeholder approvals
• Predict and/or identify roadblocks and obstacles, and proactively establish meetings or integration points between teams to address and resolve them
• Serve as team lead to align and anchor resources in fast-paced environment
• Work closely with cross-functional product and engineering teams to unlock future possibilities that marry emerging technologies and creative expression
• Facilitate, document and disseminate decisions to key stakeholders
• Prioritize competing needs with good reasoning and creative solutions

Requirements:

• Comfortable working in ambiguity, with shifting priorities
• Experience working with artists, designers and engineers to design, build, and deliver products and effects that use emerging technologies
• Experience in AR/VR/MR or 3d production highly desired
• Experience articulating design direction to artists and non-artists alike
• Experience working with external vendors (individual artists and agencies) including sourcing and contracting, advising on/defining schedules, assessing proposed production processes, managing assets as they are delivered, and being the daily point of contact for the internal team
• Experience in project management and relationship building
• Experience establishing and managing ongoing production processes
• Knowledge with Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and other design packages