Brand Production Director
Ubisoft
- Montréal, QC
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Partner with teams to ensure the efficient, timely, and quality delivery of every game, media, and project on the brand's global roadmap
- Collaborate with all departments to consolidate and connect roadmaps and production plans between central services, technology, IP and game productions to ensure all dependencies, deliverables, timelines, and risks are understood
- Manage centralized team of producers and project managers to support various initiatives and departments across the brand
- Ensure all teams and the brand have processes to manage scope, resource planning and change management
- In conjunction with other brand leaders own budgets, P&L and ensure fiscal responsibility
- Strive for continuous improvement by fostering a culture of innovation and actively seeking opportunities to refine processes and optimize resource cycles.
- Monitor KPIs and create avenues of support for all teams across live operations as needed
- Act as a service provider for all operational, development, brand and productions needs that may arise during the course of development
- Establish the operational structure for the brand, its production teams, and how to best manage and allocate resources across the projects
- Effectively implement a clear decision-making framework, roles, and responsibilities across the brand's projects. Communicate the framework to teams and all stakeholders
- Work with leadership and teams to define deliverables, identify risks, report the status of projects, set-up quality goals and budgets, and have the right processes in place to monitor, review and mitigate them
- Knowledge share, foster communication and connect with other development teams and partners to support the teams as needed
- Work with and support teams in implementing best processes, methods, and tools so that they:
- Obtain the expected level of quality for each game
- Are able to define plans of action to handle delays that impact the brand roadmap, schedule or quality
- Meet key milestones and goals across the project's lifecycle
- Achieve deliverables for other brand stakeholders and departments
- Are properly staffed and have the tools, software, hardware and means to meet expectations
- Drive special projects as it pertains to the brand's evolving objectives and requirements
- Procure and manage co-development partnerships and external vendors as needed
- Centralize learnings and operational and production intelligence across studios, central teams as it pertains to development, production, and live operations.
- 10 years' experience as a senior video game producer, production/operations/brand manager, or other relevant position in the multimedia or gaming industry;
- Experience as a project manager with a proven track record of successfully completing major games/projects in terms of quality standards, budget, time and resources;
- In-depth knowledge of video game development;
- Influential leadership;
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills;
- Creativity and innovation;
- Results orientation and ability to work effectively under pressure;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Good knowledge of change management.