In short
The Coalition is seeking a Story Producer for a 12-month fixed-term contract to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and drive features to completion for the Gears of War series. This role involves managing milestones, dependencies, and risks while fostering a collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Organize and track cinematic content, partnering with Narrative, Cinematics, Audio, Design, and Engineering.
- Track and manage milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables for cinematics, voice-over, and story content.
- Organize and track work across multiple disciplines and collaborators.
- Facilitate communication between stakeholders and development teams, ensuring alignment on priorities & schedules.
- Run production meetings, capture action items, and drive follow-through on outstanding work and blockers.
- Contribute regular status updates, prepare reports on progress, risks, and upcoming deliverables.
- Administer project related processes, such as running scrums/sprints, ensuring tickets are updated, and following up on blockers.
- Handle formal and informal organizational communication with stakeholders.
- Assist the Senior Producer in milestone planning, execution, and evaluation.
- Coordinate internal and outsourced development efforts supporting cinematic production, voice-over recording, performance capture, and narrative implementation.
- Identify opportunities to improve production workflows, team communication, and development processes.
- Help ensure story content, cinematics, and voice-over assets are delivered according to project priorities, quality expectations, and milestone commitments.
- Communicate goals to the team and motivate them to execute on time and at a high-quality level.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 1+ year(s) experience in production roles in gaming or entertainment industry, or other multi-disciplinary leadership.
- OR equivalent experience.
Desired Qualifications
- 2+ years experience in story production for games.
- 1+ year(s) experience managing relationships with stakeholders.
- Production experience with a variety of project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall etc.)
- A good understanding of the game development cycle with an understanding of the creative process and its impact on business needs.
- Dependable organization, communication, and presentation skills.
- Experience with JIRA, Hansoft or other project management software is a plus.
Benefits
- 12-month fixed term contract
- Opportunity to work on the critically acclaimed Gears of War series
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment
- Potential for professional growth
#Production#Storytelling#Game Development#Cinematics#Audio#Design#Engineering
Company
Microsoft
Job Posted
4 weeks ago
Employment Type
Contract
WorkMode
Hybrid
Experience Level
Associate
Qualification
Bachelor
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