Senior Technical Producer (Game Development)

TL;DR

Senior Technical Producer (Game Development): Driving production efforts on a features team, supporting the development of player-facing systems such as social features, personalization, and store capabilities with an accent on tracking progress, delivering products/features, and organizing priorities and goals. Focus on delivering genre-defining experiences to players, improve work systems, and maintain stakeholder relationships.

Location: This is a full-time role, based in Sydney, Australia.

Company

hirify.global is dedicated to creating games and experiences that make it better to be a player.

What you will do

• Create and manage the day-to-day product and sprint backlog for a cross functional development team.
• Identify and collect needs and requirements from stakeholders and other development teams.
• Facilitate all team meetings and enable team communication across multiple time zones.
• Be responsible for the execution of risk management, velocity tracking, progress reporting, and quality validation processes at both sprint and milestone levels.
• Collaborate across teams and products to deliver a unified experience.
• Maintain stakeholder relationships and keep them informed of progress, risks and pivots.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a Producer or Product Manager.
• 2+ years experience working with teams building software for internal users.
• Experience using Agile tools and practices to drive the development process for a distributed development team.
• Experience leading teams through feature development (planning, execution, delivery, post-release support).
• Familiarity with 3rd party engines (Unreal or Unity) and their components; understanding how engineers use and integrate with them to support development.
• Understanding the key steps in creating a build—cooking, compiling, packaging, automation, deployment, versioning, patching, localization—and how they relate to team workflows and delivery planning.

Nice to have

• Experience working on a global scale online game.
• 3+ years of experience working in game development.
• Mastery of production tools like JIRA for tracking and reporting.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle.
• Co-op gaming areas and a play fund.
• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents.
• Wellness fund.
• Learning and Development opportunities.