Associate Production Director

Partner with the Production Director and Executive Producer to ensure all project goals are meeting quality expectations. Identify cross-project risks to quality or completion to game and studio leadership. Provides mentorship to production teams on how to identify risks and strategies for mitigation. Identifies team resource requirements and dependency issues and advises studio leadership on staffing and outsourcing needs across all game teams. Drives process and workflow creation and improvement across games through their leadership teams Reviews all master project plans for completeness and identifies high-level risks Provide production expertise and drive adoption of standard methodologies to build our game development processes and pipelines, including planning, reviews, and approvals Assure the development team is working in a balanced manner to deliver work to high standards of quality Coordinate the project's accessibility goals and assure that they are included into the project roadmap Handle vendor relationships and integrate them with the studio's development processes 8+ years leading production for cross-disciplinary game development teams for both console and PC platforms with a deep understanding of game development pipelines, dependencies, and risk assessment Experience shipping at least one AAA title. Ability to solve hard project management problems and work with leads and team members to develop durable solutions as well as a passion for mentoring and making your team better Experience with first party development, certification, and submission processes Experience with studio, project, and vendor budgeting processes Jira project management and customization Proficient with Perforce Excel power user Excellent communicator, open, and highly collaborative! Must be onsite at our studio located in Austin, TX.