- Executing the roadmap by collaborating with key stakeholders throughout the game's life cycle and supporting central operations
- Working with Central & Game Production teams to continually improve and document processes
- Overseeing the day to day development and providing the necessary guidance and course correction as required
- Resource planning, priority management and roadmap development
- Overseeing the development and management of a comprehensive project schedule and the planning for various contingencies
- Reporting back to the Leadership Team and ensuring that the progress is communicated via the right forums
- Advocating for studio best practices, techniques, and standards
- Measuring project performance to identify areas for improvement
- Advocating for Project management practices like risk Management, scope Management, creation of scope statements etc
- Actively promoting positive team culture in our Montreal studio
- 8-10 years of game production experience (ideally mobile F2P)
- Successful track record of Project Management experience; adhering to outlined scope, budget, and timelines
- Highly skilled in all industry standard project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Advanced Jira and Confluence user skills
- Managerial experience
- Knowledge of agile methodologies or Project Management certifications
- Experience in mobile game software development lifecycles and game team servant leadership
- A positive attitude with the ability to bring people together
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- A self-starting, emotionally intelligent leader
- Excellent analytical skills and creative problem solving chops
- A true team player - fun to work with
- Flexibility: Flexible working schedules & Hybrid mode (2 days/week in office)
- Health Benefits: Health care coverage on your first day of employment with competitive plans and virtual Health care offered
- Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) + Wellness bonus
- Time Off: 3 weeks + Christmas closure + 4 Floating days + 7 personal/sick days
- Financial Benefits: 100% match up to 4% on Group RRSPs + SuperShare eligibility where for every 2 Aristocrat Technologies (ATI) shares you buy, up to the set maximum, you will receive 1 for free
- Team Member Assistance Fund: Up to $1,000 annually in financial support if you fall on hard times and need financial assistance
- Commuting allowance (public transport or parking expense)
- Free lunch + happy hours in the office
- Learning & Development: Linkedin Learning + Learnably
- Fun monthly team building events
- + Many More
- People First We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.
- MAD for More Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world's best games company.
- Champion Together
We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos. - Globally Inclusive We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.
- Customer Focused We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers. Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win
Senior Production Manager - Montreal, Canada - Aristocrat
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Senior Production ManagerSummary
We are looking for a Senior Production Manager/Game Producer to lead the establishment of a Production function in our mature live Game business unit. You will be responsible for building a close collaboration with the Head of Game and lead the Producers.Reporting to the Director of Production, you will be joining a global, fast paced team responsible for crafting an exciting mobile free-to-play title. You will have ultimate responsibility over the entire production lifecycle, manage roadmaps & strategy, enable cross functional collaboration, lead the monitoring and incorporation of best practices and production standards & be an integral part of the decision making group with lead stakeholders. Your experience will allow you to hold informed conversations with key stakeholders and bring an overall balance to the production process by considering all aspects of the game development.
You will also be responsible for mentoring and nurturing our Montreal team members as we are expanding and building the team.
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Why Product Madness?
You will be joining a global powerhouse where you will be part of a world-class talented team that creates remarkable hit games such as Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino, Mighty Fu, and Big Fish Casino. The success of these titles has led to over 400 million downloads and more than 50 million active users. But there is no stopping us there, we also have a new games team that is working on bringing new hit games to the market. Product Madness is an Aristocrat Technologies company within its digital games division of Pixel United.
Outstanding growth has seen us build Product Madness to more than 800 team members and counting, you can join one of our seven global talent hubs including London, USA, Canada, Spain, Poland, Ukraine & Israel.
You will be part of a company that is not only Mad about games but Mad about our people. Living by our value of people first, you will feel this firsthand from the moment you step into one of our fantastic studios. This is made possible by our amazing studio experience team who help make Product Madness such a fun place to work. Be it arranging endless snacks, weekly breakfasts & lunches, lavish Christmas & summer parties, happy hour drinks, social get-togethers and so much more.
So what is stopping you from coming and joining the Madness?
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