R8
[Game] Producer
- Hiring from
- Canada
- Work type
- Remote
- Posted
- Sep 27, 2026
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Description
We are looking for a Game Producer to join our production team and help drive the successful delivery of high-quality video game projects.
The Producer is responsible for coordinating multidisciplinary teams, maintaining production visibility, managing priorities and risks, and ensuring that the project progresses in line with agreed scope, quality, budget, and schedule.
Working closely with Creative, Design, Art, Engineering, QA, and external stakeholders, the Producer acts as a key point of coordination between teams and helps create the conditions for efficient, predictable, and collaborative development.
The ideal candidate combines strong production discipline with excellent communication skills, sound judgment, and a genuine understanding of game development.
Requirements
Responsibilities
Nice to have
Working conditions
We are looking for a Game Producer to join our production team and help drive the successful delivery of high-quality video game projects.
The Producer is responsible for coordinating multidisciplinary teams, maintaining production visibility, managing priorities and risks, and ensuring that the project progresses in line with agreed scope, quality, budget, and schedule.
Working closely with Creative, Design, Art, Engineering, QA, and external stakeholders, the Producer acts as a key point of coordination between teams and helps create the conditions for efficient, predictable, and collaborative development.
The ideal candidate combines strong production discipline with excellent communication skills, sound judgment, and a genuine understanding of game development.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Producer, Associate Producer, Project Manager, or equivalent role within the video game industry.
- Strong understanding of game development pipelines and multidisciplinary production environments.
- Experience coordinating teams across Design, Art, Engineering, QA, and other development functions.
- Good knowledge of Agile and iterative development methodologies.
- Strong planning, prioritization, and organizational skills.
- Ability to identify production risks early and drive mitigation plans.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively with both creative and technical teams.
- Comfortable working with production tools such as Jira, Confluence, or equivalent project management platforms.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to remain effective in a fast-paced and evolving production environment.
- Professional proficiency in English.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain production planning for assigned projects, workstreams, or teams.
- Coordinate day-to-day development activities across multidisciplinary teams.
- Build and maintain schedules, milestones, dependencies, and delivery plans.
- Track progress against agreed scope, quality expectations, and deadlines.
- Ensure that priorities are clearly understood across the team.
- Facilitate production meetings, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and other key project rituals.
- Identify risks, blockers, and dependencies, and proactively coordinate their resolution.
- Work closely with discipline leads to assess workload, capacity, and resource requirements.
- Support estimation and forecasting activities.
- Maintain accurate production reporting and ensure clear visibility on project status.
- Escalate critical risks and issues with clear recommendations and proposed mitigation plans.
- Coordinate communication between internal teams, external partners, and clients where applicable.
- Support change management when scope, priorities, or production assumptions evolve.
- Contribute to improving production processes, workflows, and team efficiency.
- Help foster a collaborative, accountable, and solution-oriented production culture.
- Ensure that project decisions and key production information are properly documented and communicated.
- Support project leadership in balancing scope, quality, resources, and schedule.
Nice to have
- Experience working on AAA or AA game productions.
- Experience in co-development, external development, or outsourcing environments.
- Experience working directly with publishers or external clients.
- Experience managing distributed or international teams.
- Knowledge of certification, submission, and platform requirements.
- Familiarity with Unreal Engine.
- Experience in pre-production, project scoping, or production estimation.
- Scrum Master, Agile, PMP, or similar production/project management certification.
Working conditions
- Full-time position.
- Collaborative and international working environment.
- Work may involve coordination with teams and partners across multiple time zones.
- Remote
- Occasional travel may be required for client meetings, project workshops, production reviews, or industry events.
- The role may require increased flexibility around major milestones, submissions, or critical production periods.
- The position involves regular interaction with senior stakeholders, clients, and multidisciplinary development teams.