Senior Producer – Skybound Games Job at Skybound Entertainment in Los Angeles

Who We Are

We are Skybound.

We love creators. We love fans. We love thrilling games, indelible images and moving stories. Our roots are in comics, but our brands extend to video games, television, movies, merchandise, and live experiences. We take special pride in original tales, unique characters, and diverse voices.

From well-known franchises to freshly-minted originals, we offer the chance to join brilliant creators shaping a new generation of entertainment in a concentrated, agile environment in which every perspective matters, and any idea can create a breakthrough.

Opportunity

Skybound is on the hunt for an organized and experienced Senior Producer to lead production efforts on a thrilling new game franchise. Senior Producers work across multiple sub-teams, translating the game’s high-level schedule into intermediate goals. They guide sprint planning, manage and track work efforts, and communicate status. Senior Producers function as the glue on our team, running project rituals that keep the developers nformed, focused, and collaborative.

As Senior Producer, you will organize production efforts for multiple sub-teams. You’ll work across teams to break down high level goals into smaller tasks, managed in sprints. You’ll communicate constantly, promote and celebrate wins, resolve dependencies and remove blockers. You will create production frameworks and implement tooling to track and reflect progress to stakeholders and back to the team. You will lead process to establish priorities and manage tradeoffs to achieve the highest possible quality, on schedule.

Reports: This position will report to the Executive Producer of Skybound Game Studios

Responsibilities: Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Organize and manage development efforts on a new video game franchise
• Establish and lead production rituals for multiple feature teams or departments
• Break down high level goals and feature definitions into actionable tasks
• Manage expectations with accurate estimates, visibility and process improvement
• Implement assignment and tracking to clarify, focus, and measure progress
• Communicate vigorously via meetings, team chat, documentation
• Contribute to team culture to maximize individual welfare, morale and productivity
• Promote positivity, excellence, creator respect and risk taking in all aspects of work

Requirements:

• 5+ years in game development, with multiple shipped products
• Track record of leadership and exceptional team management
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven project management capability, including budget and co-dev teams
• Knowledge of game development, including engineering, design, art, and QA

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep storytelling and narrative design experience
• Passion for gaming, and a deep understanding of Invincible
• Passion for production methodologies, tracking, transparency
• Demonstrated delivery of exceptional quality games and singular fan focus

Job Type: Regular, Full-Time

Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000

• Actual base salary is dependent on several factors including but not limited to; market dynamics, location and region, experience, specialized skills/training (education), level of responsibility, budgetary considerations, tenure at the company (for current employees), etc.
• The salary range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees
• Compensation decisions are dependent on circumstances of each role

Skybound offers a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, as well as free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We also offer a 401K plan with 4% match, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, generous time off, wellness benefits, and tuition reimbursement.

Company Overview

Skybound is a multiplatform content company working closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending stories and universes to new platforms, including comics, television, film, tabletop and video games, books, digital content, events, and beyond. We are home to critically-acclaimed global franchises, including The Walking Dead and Invincible.

Skybound Games produces, publishes and distributes video and tabletop games across all genres, including the multi-million-unit selling The Walking Dead video game series. In addition to our wholly-owned franchises, we work with independent developers to foster and create original games with compelling characters and worlds, strong creator and artistic focus, and innovative approaches to engaging genres.

Invincible is one of Skybound's tentpole franchises (celebrating 20 years!) and spans the world of comic books, merchandise, video games, and the critically acclaimed adult animated television series on Prime Video. Now in its second season, the television show has consistently ranked as one of Prime Videos top-streamed series with a 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on the groundbreaking comic book by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, Invincible revolves around 18-year-old Mark Grayson, who’s just like every other guy his age—except his father is (or was) the most powerful superhero on the planet. Still reeling from Nolan’s betrayal in Season One, Mark struggles to rebuild his life as he faces a host of new threats, all while battling his greatest fear - that he might become his father without even knowing it.

The show stars Steven Yeun, with Sandra Oh, Zazie Beetz, Grey Griffin, Chris Diamantopoulos, Walton Goggins, Gillian Jacobs, Jason Mantzoukas, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, Zachary Quinto, Andrew Rannells, Kevin Michael Richardson, Seth Rogen, and J.K. Simmons. Executive producers include Skybound's own Kirkman, David Alpert, and Margaret M. Dean.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Skybound we value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds! Skybound is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, hair texture or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Skybound complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination.

Skybound will consider applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the CA Fair Chance Act and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.