We are looking for a Senior Producer to deliver best in class gaming experiences for our players while hitting quality, schedule, and business targets.

The Senior Producer is responsible for managing one or more multidisciplinary teams composed of artists, designers, and engineers and working directly with the Production Director to drive features to completion. A key component of this role is to manage the critical dependencies between the groups and solve issues. As part of the Production team, you will be expected to help create and foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high performing work environment. You will create production roadmaps based on backlogs and partner with product owners to establish sprint and milestone goals. You will execute against this plan by working with the leadership team to prioritize deliverables, manage risks, react quickly to challenges, report weekly status, and evaluate their group against deliverable completion and quality success criteria.

Responsibilities

Among the responsibilities of the role are:

• Milestone planning, execution, dependency management and evaluation of priorities
• Communicating goals to the team and motivating them to execute on time and at a high-quality level.
• Proactive risk management and mitigation.
• Creating, updating, and presenting status and information to the Studio Leadership team.
• Identifying task-related processes to improve efficiency.
• Providing regular capacity plan updates.
• Focusing on project development with an emphasis on team empowerment.
• Management of both internal and external deliverables.

Qualifications

ABOUT YOU

• You have managed one or more cross functional game teams through two or more game phases (Pre-Production, Production, Finaling)
• You are customer obsessed and have a desire to provide the best experience to our content creators and our players
• You are comfortable working in modern project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban, etc)
• You possess excellent communication skills and are excited to work closely with designers, engineers and content creators

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.