Short introduction:
As Lead Publishing Producer at SOEDESCO you will manage the Production team with all related procedures and provide mentoring and guidance to all team members. You will also be independently in charge of, and representative for, several key projects in our portfolio (both digital and physical) from concept through post-release.
IMPORTANT – Please note this is an on-site position for our office in Hoogvliet – Rotterdam (NL)
Responsibilities
- Managing the publishing team as Lead Publishing Producer
- Overseeing and reporting on the entire SOEDESCO portfolio and production team, including all relevant resources.
- Managing several internally and externally developed projects in the SOEDESCO portfolio from concept through post-release. You will do this for all SKUs, including overseeing the publishing planning & budget to deliver on time, on budget and to spec, performing milestone reviews, providing publishing services, and taking care of submission to platform holders.
- Being the main point of contact for all relevant stakeholders for these projects, carrying responsibility for ensuring continuous alignment.
- Hiring and onboarding of new team members and interns.
- Managing, mentoring, supporting, and reporting on current team members.
- Supporting senior management with new business research & development (i.e. new titles, platforms, territories, services, et cetera).
- Collaborating with our legal team for contract negotiations, improving templates, and performing financial and legal reviews.
- Researching & developing new, and maintaining & optimizing existing, production & publishing procedures.
- Managing partner relations (i.e. developers, platform holders, service providers, et cetera)
What experience are we lookingfor?
- 5+ years of previous organizational / project management experience in the game development industry.
- 2+ years of experience in a lead function
- Advanced understanding of game production pipeline and budgets.
- Advanced understanding of the publishing platform holder backends of Steam, Nintendo, PlayStation, and Microsoft
- Knowledge of, and comfort dealing with industry standard legal documentation.
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills. Both internal and external team members, stakeholders, and third-party service providers are from a very wide variety of countries and cultures, so understanding of- and a respectful attitude towards cultural differences is required.
What type of person are welooking for?
- Able to effectively communicate with multi-disciplinary team members in person and long distance.
- Ability to switch between day-to-day firefighting and long-term planning constantly.
- Organized, confident, self-motivated and solution-driven.
- Passionate about and extensive, in-depth knowledge of the game and game development industry.
- Ability to work under limited supervision.
- Strong creative, analytical, and organizational skills.
- Comfortable with investigating and handling new technologies, hardware and software.
- Willingness to travel internationally should the need arise.
Plusses
- Basic understanding of graphic and video editing software.
- Basic understanding of game programming and/or game art tools and software.
- Any additional verbal/written languages.
IMPORTANT – Please note this is an on-site position for our office in Hoogvliet – Rotterdam (NL). We aren’t able to offer work visum/KMsponsorship, or any relocation services. We won’t be able to take on applications that don’t consider this.
If you think you’d be a good match, please sendyour CV and motivation to hr@soedesco.com, with laura.delooff@soedesco.com in cc.
