Production Director
Description
We are building a new AAA first-person shooter IP for a global audience. As Production Director, you will own milestone execution across disciplines, ensuring delivery against scope, quality, and schedule commitments.
This is a hands-on execution leadership role focused on accountability, clarity, predictable delivery, and team health.
Responsibilities
- Own milestone execution from Vertical Slice through launch.
- Translate creative vision into structured production plans with defined scope, dependencies, and delivery targets.
- Drive sprint planning, milestone planning, backlog management, and release readiness.
- Identify risks early and enforce trade-offs to protect schedule and quality.
- Maintain accurate forecasting for schedule, capacity, and delivery confidence.
- Lead dependency tracking across art, design, engineering, and external partners.
- Manage and evaluate output from global co-development teams.
- Ensure reporting to studio leadership is clear, data-informed, and decision-ready.
- Convert playtest and user feedback into prioritized, trackable work.
- Drive postmortems and continuous process improvement to increase velocity and predictability.
- Help build and reinforce strong team culture through effective rituals, clear operating principles, and disciplined production cadences.
Requirements
- Shipped at least one AAA PC or console title as a Producer or Senior Producer (FPS preferred).
- 10+ years producing cross-discipline teams across art, design, and engineering.
- Experience delivering large-scale projects (50+ developers) with milestone-based funding or gated approvals.
- Experience managing multi-million-dollar development budgets and forecasting resource needs.
- Proven track record of shipping on fixed external deadlines (platform, publishing, or investment-driven).
- Experience managing global co-development teams with clear quality oversight.
- Strong operational rigor: schedule modeling, burn tracking, risk logs, and dependency mapping.
- Demonstrated ability to drive accountability with senior discipline leads.
- Experience shaping team culture, production rituals, and high-performance working norms.
- Player-focused mindset grounded in measurable quality outcomes.
Pluses:
- Experience taking a game from prototype through launch and into live operations.
- Experience shipping on both PC and console platforms.
- Experience managing multiplayer or live-service titles.
- Ability to bridge North America and China teams across time zones, languages, and working styles.
- Mandarin language proficiency.
- Experience in early-stage or startup environments.
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape a new AAA game team from the ground up.
- High ownership and cross-disciplinary influence.
- Collaborative, high-talent global team.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Eligible for a sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units (evaluated on a case-by-case basis).
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits.
- Participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan.
- 15 to 25 days of vacation per year (depending on tenure).
- Up to 13 days of holidays throughout the calendar year.
- Up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year.
