A globally leading consumer device company headquartered in Cupertino, CA is looking for the Arcade Producer to join their team. You will be a developer s main point of contact throughout game development and postlaunch, and will take on core responsibilities including defining milestone schedules and deliverables, managing external developer relationships, reviewing and approving key checkpoints, offering insightful creative feedback on the player experience, and collaborating with critical internal teams like hardware, software, and App Store platform teams. In this role, you ll be a pivotal member of the Arcade team, supporting development partners like Sega, Ubisoft, Gameloft, 2K, EA, Devolver Digital, Triband, Ironhide, and Rovio to deliver a diverse portfolio of games.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate closely with hardware and software teams to ensure developers have the necessary information to mitigate risks and successfully meet their timelines.
Maintain organizational prowess while fostering strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, often juggling competing priorities and conflicting schedules.
Ensure that games are enjoyable for players and have emotional impact.
Champion the pursuit of exceptional live service for games on Arcade, which involves collaborating with teams that provide valuable insights into metrics and performance, and ensuring that updates align with the right priorities
Help bring games you are proud of to company's platforms.

Minimum Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in an operations or project management role working on games that have a robust live service component.
Intimately familiar with the game development process, in particular releasing and maintaining products on the App Store.
Outstanding desktop computer skills and familiarity with standard Project Management tools that include Excel, Airtable, Quip, Keynote, and others.

Preferred Qualifications:

Work experience in the trenches directly as a game producer.
Uncompromising attention to detail and the ability to track multiple priorities over disparate sources of information.
Cares deeply about the games industry and the technology that enables developers to bring joy to millions of players.
Plays games regularly, including mobile games, has opinions on what makes great games and always has a list of pending games to finish.
Extraordinary interpersonal skills; thrive in highly collaborative projects, effective at building consensus, easily work with creative and business partners, internal and external.
You possess strong personal management skills in chasing down areas of ambiguity and defining solutions for problems as they are discovered.
Excellent oral and written communication skills; with capacity to move between technical and non-technical audiences.
Solves problems using empathy, curiosity and tenacity.

Type: Contract

Duration: 12 months with extension

Work Location: Cupertino, CA (hybrid)

Pay range: $59.00/hr - $74.00/hr (DOE)

No 3rd party agencies or C2C

Game Producer

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