Lead Producer

Demiurge Studios is seeking an experienced senior producer or development director to lead production on our newest project! You will be an integral part of the project team’s leadership working closely with the Executive Producer. Production leads are accountable for development execution including development strategy project planning and risk management.

In this role you will proactively work to identify and remove any obstacles to success. Your mission is to enable the dev team to do their best work. You have many tools in your toolbox and know how to customize them adapting to new and complex challenges. You are as comfortable leading from the front as you are acting as a support behind the scenes. You navigate easily between strategic and operational work and use that skill to keep the team aligned and motivated.

At Demiurge you’ll find a stable studio with an amazing collaborative culture and a deep respect for our players in all our games. Our commitment to sane and sustainable development is well known in the Boston game community. If you are driven by collaboration creativity and leading teams to do their best work this might be the role for you!

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the EP and discipline leads to define the development strategy and methodology.

• Maintain strong connections with internal and external stakeholders sharing progress setting expectations and resolving any issues that arise.

• Build validate and maintain a clear development plan including dependencies milestones and deliverables.

• Proactively identify and manage project risks - in technology timeline staffing and general team health.

• Lead the team’s production staff on a day-to-day basis ensuring they have clear goals and objectives and are leading their groups effectively.

• Collaborate and negotiate with project leadership to evaluate trade-offs among scope time-to-market and quality.

• Coordinate development efforts from the front line focusing effort driving for outcomes and keeping your team motivated.

Qualifications

• 10+ years game industry experience (or equivalent professional experience) including time as Lead Producer or Development Director.

• Experience working in a leadership role through each phase of the game product life cycle (e.g. prototype pre-production production launch and live operations)Experience leading cohesive creative teams ranging in size from 10 to 60 people.

• Demonstrated ability to create aligned project roadmaps and timelines and to adapt them to each phase of development.

• Proficiency in driving process change under a variety of agile and fixed-time development processes.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality products under budget time & resource constraints.

• History of successfully working with external stakeholders and navigating client and vendor relationships.

• Ability to lead distributed teams including a mix of internal developers co-development partners and outsourcing.

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills including motivation mentoring and conflict resolution.

• Experience developing (and playing!) 3D action games especially open-world RPGsBonus points for other discipline experience (engineering art design etc).

About Us:

Headquartered in Boston MA at Demiurge you will find a studio with an amazing collaborative culture and a deep respect for art in all our games. With over 20 years of game development expertise and teams all over North America our commitment to balanced and sustainable development is well known in the game community. We also provide co-development services to larger best-in-industry game companies. In this capacity Demiurge has worked with some of the industry’s biggest hitters on exciting projects including Marvel Snap 2XKO Marvel Puzzle Quest and Teamfight Tactics to name a few. This is an exciting time to join Demiurge as we are developing our own independent titles as well. With tons of challenges and opportunities ahead we are always looking for great talent! If you are looking for an exciting creative and collaborative studio come join us on Demiurge's next journey!

DEI Statement:

At Demiurge we celebrate our differences and know that diverse perspectives empower us to build a stronger company and better games. We work hard to create an equitable safe and accessible work environment where all Demiurgers are empowered to be themselves and do their best work regardless of race age gender identity sexual orientation religion or physical or mental ability. We thrive on self-reflection healthy debate and mindful listening. We respect each other's opinions and seek new ideas. We denounce hate discrimination and racism in all forms.

What Demiurge Offers:

• Flexible work environment

• Generous PTO program including vacation days sick days and holidays. Earn-as-you-go plan that rolls over year to year offering flexibility as well as the last week of December the studio closes to recharge

• A variety of medical benefits with PPO options that start on your first day of employment

• Vision and Dental benefits

• Health Savings Account (HSA) - Available if you select a High Deductible Healthcare plan

• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (HC & DC FSA)

• 401K Partial Match

• Commuter Reimbursement Program for hybrid employees

• Tuition reimbursement promoting lifelong learning

• Referral bonuses

• Bonus plan

• So. Many. Games. - Access to our huge game library!

As well as a State of the Art Boston Studio with in Office Perks:

• Free snacks and drinks!

• Demi-Lunch Tuesday - Lunch is on us!

• Game Night Food

• Ping Pong!

• Step Mania! Get your dance on!

Demiurge Studios is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity equity and inclusion. All employment decisions are made without regard to race color national origin gender identity sexual orientation age religion disability medical condition pregnancy marital status or Veteran status. Demiurge Studios also makes workplace accommodations for individuals with disabilities or special needs.

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