Producer - Live Ops
- Responsibilities
- Lead a cross-functional team responsible for operations and deployment activities including release management, quality assurance, server infrastructure and live operations;
- Champion the expectations of both consumers and game creators related to operational service issues;
- Review and green-light builds for Staging and Release with dedicated Quality Assurance staff;
- Create and manage plans for product launches, patches, and service updates accordingly;
- Manage the development of tools to deploy and operate and monitor the service availability and quality of all services;
- Author and maintain clear escalation protocols for issues discovered in the live services by automated checks, as well as player and community team discovery;
- Prioritize and assign work to members of operations team, and perform timely follow-ups any action reports on any major road blocks or live service interruptions;
- Think near and far term. Maintain the right focus on long-term strategy and near term maintenance of all our live service components;
- Communicate frequently with the team leads on live and deployment status, risks, and opportunities;
- Work with production staff and other leads to establish engineering tasks and subsequent schedule requirements across multiple disciplines of programming and technology;
- Set a long-term technical roadmap together with Online Technical Director and franchise leadership;
- Help evaluate technical co-development partnerships and outsourcing opportunities.
- Requirements
- 10 years game industry experience with at least 5 years as producer or product manager on a live service game;
- Proficient in Office suite, Confluence, Wiki, and Jira;
- Able to organize and articulate the needs and expectations of the service to all team disciplines in meaningful and actionable tasks and epics within Jira;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills working in English (other languages a plus);
- Able to maintain professional focus and composure in stressful situations.
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