Nerd Ninjas is a fully remote, fast-moving, multi-disciplinary team of creative professionals based mostly on the west coast of the USA. We’re working on fun and interesting projects across desktop, mobile, AR, and VR. We seek a Producer to help guide and support the needs of our game developers and designers. You’ll be a central part of empowering an already amazing team to deliver their best work in a timely fashion, with high morale.
Benefits:
- Our unique culture is fun, healthy, and anti-drama (you'll love it!).
- Work on cutting edge projects with big-name developers (such as Niantic, the creators of Pokémon GO).
- Competitive salary.
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, & Vision.
- Flexible schedule.
- Work fully remote in the Pacific Time Zone.
- Travel to Spokane, WA twice a year for very fun and memorable team-building retreats.
- You can call yourself a Ninja
Responsibilities:
- Be a game’s central liaison and primary champion.
- Manage sprints and the day-to-day production schedule of a game.
- At any moment, be able to effectively communicate the status of development, design, and implementation tasks.
- Look ahead to the next sprint/milestone, identifying roadblocks and anticipating needs.
- Facilitate strong team communication by ensuring timely dissemination of information.
- Maximize team cohesion while maintaining company culture and empowering creativity.
- Create and foster daily team practices and processes that help ensure success with milestones.
- Write and maintain specs and other documentation.
- Represent the team to external stakeholders, such as publishers and executives.
Requirements:
- 2+ years working professionally as a Producer / Project Manager in video games (or related).
- Experience with accountability, managing resources, timelines, and schedules.
- An effective and inclusive collaborator who embraces feedback.
- Strong analytical and conflict resolution skills.
- Able to adapt to a constantly changing environment while supporting and empowering the team.
- Ability to coordinate smoothly across multiple departments (dev, design, marketing, QA, etc…).
- Experience working with creative, high functioning, and quality-driven teams.
- Self-motivated go-getter.
- Ability to work remotely during core team hours, M-F: 9:00am - 5pm Pacific Time.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication.
- Must be a US resident.
Pluses:
- Shipped multiple successful titles.
- Hands-on production experience in other departments: art, design, programming, QA, etc.
- Experience with Jira (or other task/bug tracking software).
- Experience with Unity3D (or Unreal).
- Knowledge of FTP (free to play) methodologies.
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies.
- Scrum Master.
- Experience writing specification documents.
- Experience with tools such as Photoshop, Figma, Adobe XD, etc…
- Live in WA.
We are a startup of digital mercenaries creeping silently in the shadows to slay any project that crosses our path! We are relentless in our pursuit of making the highest quality games!
We are masterfully trained in the electronic arts with a combined nerd experience that has published 20+ video games (many of which have been in the App Store Top 10). We've killed it on projects for Disney, Pixar, Nickelodeon, Mattel, Niantic, MTV, and even made our own board games. We’ve brought together our keyboard-wielding, mouse-flipping skills to create NERD NINJAS. With each Ninja on the team averaging over 13 years of industry experience, we are a lean, agile, and elite cadre of passionate developers who are first and foremost, gamers at heart.
Amazing Retreats
We want to build great products and great friendships. In addition to the impromptu gaming, one of the best ways to foster this in a fully remote studio is through retreats! Twice a year, we get together in the beautiful Pacific Northwest for an incredible time: escape rooms, murder mysteries, zip lining, white water rafting, indoor waterparks, mountaintop dinners, private casinos, and so much more. Join us for amazing weekends you’ll never forget!