Lead Producer

The Virtuous Group, LLC
United States
15 days ago
Apply on emploi.afjv.com
Prepare application

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
2 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Tech stack

Scrum Methodology Power BI

Job description

  1. Acting Producer on Key & Strategic Projects * Define goals, scope, milestones, budget, and risks for your own project. * Build and validate the production plan, schedule, and proposal for your project. * Keep your roadmap aligned ; manage scope, change requests, and risk on your project. * Own quality and on-time delivery of all client commitments on your project. * You are the key point of contact for your current project(s), not just to other developers but across all disciplines & projects.

  2. Managing your Producer Team * Coach Producers on schedule accuracy and ownership of their own projects. * Set and uphold production methodology across the Producer team (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall). * Mentor Producers and support their career development. * Keep a collaborative, efficient production culture across departments, for the team’s projects.

  3. Representing Production * Represent production internally and externally, for the studio as a whole. * Build trust with client stakeholders through consistent communication, across all client relationships in the studio. * Lead discussions on schedule, budget, risk, and change (with clear recommendations, for any project in the studio when needed). * Drive alignment and resolve conflicts across cross-functional teams, studio-wide.

  4. Group-Level Reporting * Structured reporting on progress, risk, budget, staffing, and KPIs across all projects (yours and your Producer team’s). * Deliver concise management summaries with clear insights, covering the full project portfolio. * Consolidate production data across all projects and contribute to group standards and best practices.

Requirements

  • Senior production experience : 8-10+ years in production, including 2+ years as Senior / Lead Producer in complex creative or software environments ; strong understanding of game development standards (publisher-side experience is a plus).
  • Game development expertise : You’ll have worked on 5+ games and are likely to be an expert in one or more technology areas, with solid command of game production pipelines, workflows, and industry practices.
  • Client communication : confident communicator able to manage senior client relationships and operate effectively in multicultural contexts.
  • Leadership & team management : proven ability to guide, motivate, and support cross-disciplinary teams ; strong stress management and team coordination skills.
  • Production methodologies : expertise in Agile / Scrum / Waterfall ; Scrum Master or equivalent certification valued.
  • Problem solving & pragmatism : pragmatic mindset with strong risk anticipation, scope control, and prioritization abilities.
  • Data & tools : familiarity with Power BI is an advantage.
  • Languages : fluent in English and French.
  • Cross studio coordination : experience working across multiple teams, studios, and stakeholders.

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on emploi.afjv.com
Prepare application

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

1:24 min

Moving the semantic layer upstream to avoid vendor lock-in

Piotr Menclewicz Piotr Menclewicz · Europe 2026 Virtual

1:43 min

Rebuilding application architecture with fixed scrum teams

Sebastian Gierlinger Sebastian Gierlinger · World Congress 2025

1:20 min

Identifying multi-disciplinary talent for developer experience engineering roles

Hazal Mestci +1 · Coffee With Developers

3:48 min

Standardizing data access schemas with OData

Florian Bader Florian Bader · World Congress 2026 Europe

3:12 min

Selecting game engines and defining operational leadership strategies

Eric Bowman Eric Bowman · World Congress 2026 Europe

2:09 min

Evolution of software measurement from waterfall to agile

Markus Walker Markus Walker · World Congress 2024

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all