Producer

SciPlay is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, providing highly entertaining free-to-play games that millions of people play every day for their authenticity, engagement and fun.

SciPlay currently offers nine core games, including social casino games Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino Slots, Hot Shot Casino and Quick Hit Slots, and casual games MONOPOLY Slots, Bingo Showdown, 88 Fortunes Slots, Backgammon Live, and Solitaire Pet Adventure with offices all over the world!

Job Summary:

As a Game Producer, you work with and lead a dedicated Feature team with Engineering and Product Owner partners. Using excellent communication and great project management, you will work with the team and team leadership to drive and report on development progress for the game. You have prior experience in game/software development and a keen knowledge of how each discipline operates and interacts. Being self-motivated, having the ability to anticipate production issues and find effective solutions are also critical to your success.

Essential Job Functions:  

· Create and track short and long-term schedules for game features and assets

· Supervise the team’s task management, maintain task lists, backlogs, and communicate deadlines

· Organize agile ceremonies, supporting the team’s stakeholders to prioritize the team’s backlog

· Develop, improve, and maintain processes for sharing game information, art, slot, and audio assets with external teams

· Schedule, lead, and attend meetings; set agendas; take concise and comprehensive notes and distribute them to appropriate personnel.

· Provide weekly reporting to production game leadership

· Collaborate with other producers on project status, identifying risks, and opportunities

· Maintain a risk registry for your feature team

· Contribute to a positive and constructive work environment with unrelenting follow-through

· Navigate team dynamics, understand how to resolve conflict, and escalate issues

Requirements

Required Experience 

· 1 to 3 years of previous experience working as a game producer or project manager, on a shipped video game or mobile game project

· Demonstrable ability to create, track, and maintain team schedules, and to drive projects to completion in a timely manner

· Skill to communicate effectively, correctly, and succinctly with key stakeholders

· Comfortable with ambiguity and able to drive towards clarity; a strong collaborative problem solver

· Strong mediation skills

· Knowledge of software development and project management, including agile/scrum frameworks

· Jira dashboard, scrum board, and scrum report experience

· Experience facilitating effective retrospectives, incident management post-mortems, and reviews

· Ability to work core hours with the Gold Fish Casino team in Texas

Bonus Points: 

· Prior experience in Social, Mobile, or Casino games

· People Management experience

· A passion for fostering development processes and best practices

· Experience with online games

· Expertise with Jira, Confluence, Lucid Spark, Trello, or comparable applications

· Experience as a Jira admin, editing or creating workflows

· Strong familiarity with Excel and SharePoint

We are SciPlay! We make games!

The roots of our company are simple and strong: Our founder, Aaron “Shurm” Schurman, fell head over heels for casino games and had a vision to create the most entertaining free-to-play casino games for gamers around the world. We’ve grown into a company that makes games we are truly proud of and that are enjoyed by millions of players every day. Our history is extensive, but we’re just getting started. In 1998, we got our start as Phantom EFX and in 2019, we reintroduced ourselves as SciPlay and went public on the Nasdaq.

At SciPlay, we are programmed to think untraditionally. From our yearly development conferences, shindigs, and new game launches, we believe in doing what you love and doing it well. We take great pride in our ability to create authentic experiences for players and we are excited to continue investing in our workforce, technology, and our data-driven approach, all with the mission of delighting our players long into the future. We believe that if we continue to stay passionate, set ambitious goals, live our values and play together, we will become the #1 social casino and casual gaming company in the world.

A few of our highlighted perks and benefits:

· Competitive salaries and annual bonuses alongside matching 401k and other competitive benefits.

· Strong commitment to work/life balance

· Fully stocked kitchen

· Fully stocked gameroom featuring current generation consoles and titles, shuffle board tables, foosball tables, and arcade cabinets (including our prized 5v5 cabinet ultra-rare copy of Killer Queen!)

· Brand new, shiny, and aesthetically pleasing 10,000 sq ft office located in the Arboretum area in Austin

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At SciPlay we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have! #beYOU

SciPlayers are humble. In the live environment of mobile game development, there’s no room for egos and the loudest voice doesn’t get their way here. We are diverse in our backgrounds and our experience, both professionally and personally, and we believe our differences are key to unlocking our super powers.

 SciPlay Corporation and its affiliates (collectively, SciPlay) are committed to creating a workforce of credibility and dependability. As a prerequisite to employment with SciPlay (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SciPlay conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you. This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above. SciPlay is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here EEOC Poster.

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