Producer, Narrative (Contract)

Job Description

Santa Monica Studio, the award-winning team behind God of War, is seeking a skilled and experienced Producer to join their Narrative team for an exciting new unannounced title. This role is crucial in supporting the production pipeline across all development phases, from initial design to final approval. The Producer will collaborate closely with producers, creative leads, and directors, ensuring smooth operations and high-quality deliverables.Responsibilities include managing production areas, facilitating development efforts, maintaining project schedules, and ensuring effective communication between team members. The Producer will also proactively seek resolutions to problems, prioritize work, and provide data-driven impact analysis. They will support product development needs by maintaining relationships within the development team and participating in performance reviews.Responsibilities:

• Manage Production Areas
• Facilitate development efforts to keep product development on schedule and within budget
• Develop and maintain project schedules, triage day-to-day production issues
• Ensure regular and effective communication between internal and external team members to share project status and problem solve
• Proactively Seek Resolution
• Breakdown and prioritize work for teams, identify problems and propose solutions, provide data-drive impact analysis
• Ensure stakeholders have proper visibility into development and are informed of any changes that may impact their teams
• Support Product Development Needs
• Maintain and improve relationships amongst development team
• Partner with team managers to help provide team assignments which support career growth
• Participate in yearly performance review process by capturing feedback

Requirements:

• 5+ years of production experience in a AAA game development environment
• Familiarity with traditional waterfall production management techniques and Agile techniques, including SCRUM and Kanban
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Hansoft, Microsoft Office (Project and Excel)
• Proven experience producing high-performing cross-functional teams
• Excellent organizational & prioritization skills, attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills – able to communicate effectively across product development and management teams
• Knowledgeable of current industry trends
• Must love games and have a passion for crafting them!

The role offers:

• Opportunity to work on a new unannounced title
• Chance to collaborate with a talented and award-winning team
• A dynamic and creative work environment