Senior Publishing Producer

Responsibilities

• Track all cross-functional deliverables, owners, dependencies, and deadlines, and proactively follow up to keep them on course.
• Drive timely, clear communication across teams, surfacing risks, decisions, and status before they become problems.
• Act as the central point of contact for publishing execution, translating needs between development and publishing functions.
• Maintain the publishing roadmap, keeping it accurate, current, and visible to all stakeholders.
• Work closely with the development team on milestone planning, aligning development milestones and deliverables with the publishing roadmap.
• Identify schedule conflicts and dependency risks early, and lead the replanning needed to resolve them.
• Maintain a single source of truth for timelines, status, and deliverables that stakeholders can rely on.
• Establish and improve lightweight, repeatable processes for deliverable hand-offs, approvals, and status reporting.
• Run recurring planning and sync meetings (stand-ups, milestone reviews, retrospectives), with clear agendas and documented action items.
• Maintain project-tracking tools and documentation so information stays organized and accessible.
• Manage approval and sign-off workflows, including those involving external partners, platform holders, and first parties.
• Provide regular, concise status updates to leadership and stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and decisions needed.
• Anticipate, escalating, and help mitigate risks to scope, schedule, and quality.
• Coordinate launch and live-operations beats (announcements, betas, releases, updates) across all contributing teams.

• 6+ years of production or project management experience, with at least 2 years production experience in video games AAA publishing.
• Demonstrated success coordinating complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and competing deadlines.
• Strong working knowledge of game development and publishing lifecycle, from pre-production through launch and live operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to keep diverse teams aligned and informed.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with proven ability to manage many parallel work streams without dropping threads.
• Sound judgment in prioritization, risk assessment, and escalation.
• Experience shipping titles across multiple platforms and storefronts.
• Familiarity with art, creative production pipelines and asset management.
• Experience working with external partners, platform holders, or first-party certification (e.g., Steam, Play Station, Xbox, Nintendo, Apple, Google).
• Experience with localization, QA, marketing, or community workflows.
• Able to work 11am-4pm CT Monday-Friday with regular availability during 8-11pm CT for international collaboration meetings.