Associate Producer - Treyarch (Los Angeles)
Description
Treyarch is a seeking an outstanding Associate Producer to join our studio!
As an Associate Producer (AP), you'll work closely with the broader Production team to coordinate the delivery of levels and features, and will be directly responsible for ensuring the requesting and delivery of assets between the various departments. As a qualified AP, you will be organized, professional, courteous, hard-working, and an effective communicator who loves working with people.
What You’ll Be Doing…
- Acting as a liaison in coordinating multiple disciplines such as Engineering, Art, Audio, Animation, Design, and QA, in order to fulfill project goals and objectives
- Daily managing and tracking of tasks ensuring schedules are maintained and adjusted when necessary
- Scheduling, attending and chairing meetings, taking concise and comprehensive notes, as well as supplying updates to team members regularly via in-person meetings, email and wiki updates
- Serving as a feature or level owner
- Managing testing expectations with QA and ensuring show-stopping issues are looked after efficiently
- Spending time with team members, asking questions and resolving issues, to keep the team functioning at maximum capacity
Requirements
To succeed you should be…
- Experienced and Knowledgeable: You’ve got at least 2 years of game production experience, ideally with one full game under your belt in the role of Associate Producer or higher; you're passionate about games and are familiar with the Call of Duty franchise
- A High-Level Strategist: You are able to come up with comprehensive development plans, set milestones, understand outsourcing needs and how to get them, and be able to align multiple groups across the organization as well as externally in working together
- Organized: You can process, coordinate, and supervise large amounts of information; you keep things prioritized and on time; you can develop a game plan with a flexibility that allows for fast and frequent change
- A Manager of Risk: You are always several steps ahead and are someone who gets out in front of upcoming problems and are ready to propose solutions; the red-flag is part of your default wardrobe
- A Strong Communicator: You are able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in written form; you enjoy and value face-time with the team; you understand how to keep people informed; you can speak fluently in all languages of game development across many teams; you have strong follow-up skills
- A People Person: You understand the importance of having strong relationships at every level; you maintain a positive outward demeanor, even when situations become difficult; you are professional, supportive and accessible
- A Leader: You are the kind of person people want to work for and work with; you are eager to not only hit the quality bar, but raise it whenever possible; your passion towards the project is infectious
- A Creative Non-Creative: You can look at the game and know in what ways it needs to be better; you are able to communicate a need for change and can articulate ideas for improvement; you have a trusted eye for quality that Team Leads accept and depend on
We’d love it if you also have…
- An understanding and experience in supporting a live title
- Experience with or a strong passion for first person shooters
Benefits & Perks
We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
- If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
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Activision is more than just the leading developer and publisher of video games; we are the creators of some of the world’s biggest, most ground-breaking titles in the industry. Our portfolio includes Call of Duty® and Crash Bandicoot™. Activision is a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), headquartered in Santa Monica, California with locations across the globe. Activision Blizzard is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment. A member of the S&P 500 and recognized on the 2018 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list, Activision Blizzard has operations throughout the world with approximately 10,000 employees and players in 196 countries.