Game Development Producer; Temporary

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Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a pioneering publisher of hobby board and card games, including trademarked Living Card Games®. Established in 1995, FFG has earned a reputation for its epic themes, immersive gameplay, and top-level components. Many of FFG’s most popular titles are based on beloved licenses such as Star Wars™, Marvel, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.

In addition, FFG has its own iconic universes such as Arkham Horror Files, Terrinoth Legends, and Twilight Imperium. Throughout the course of the studio’s rich history, FFG has published games in over thirty languages and distributed to more than fifty territories. Fantasy Flight Games is a subsidiary of Paris-based Asmodee Group, a leading global publisher of tabletop games.

The temporary Game Development Producer role coordinatesprojects forFFG’svariousgame development teams, while providing development support to the design teams they engage with. They are the hub of their projects and work with multiple people every day. The main responsibility of this position is to manage projects through development, overseeing them from concept to completion. This includes creating and maintaining project schedules and visions, leading play testing and gathering player feedback, and engaging with a multitude of teams to ensure team awareness and on-time delivery of project milestones.

The overarching goal of these activities being to continuously refine the project into one that is balanced, engaging, and within the budget and overall scope of the project.

• Manage multiple projects and their teams simultaneously and be able to clearly communicate their status to management.
• Coordinate and manage daily project meetings with various teams.
• Work closely with game designers, graphic designers, art directors, and others to ensure each project meets its deadlines while reaching its full potential.
• Ensure that budgets for assigned projects are within defined specifications.
• Work with Design Lead and External Designer to create/maintain a vision document for the project. Ensure final game products are aligned with that vision and the project’s budget, as well as the intellectual property involved when applicable.
• Investigate the feasibility of game design ideasinsofar asto how they mightimpactproduction and/or manufacturing.
• Ensure that sufficient project milestones are in place to meet planned deadlines.
• Provide documentation to other creative departments (Art, Graphic Design, Sculpting, etc.) using defined document procedures to detail what elements are required to support the game design and content.
• Communicateanddeliverprojectneeds to multiple teams across the studio and publisher, as well as licensors and other parties when applicable.
• Lead internal and external play testing by providing all necessary test components, answering questions, collecting feedback, and analyzing it to improve the balance and usability of the game’s design, rules, and content.
• Collaborate with sculpting department staff to ensure the game’s plastic components are delivered to the Plastic Production team.
• Investigate the feasibility of game design ideasinsofar asto how they mightimpactproduction and/or manufacturing.
• Prepare andsubmitfiles for final approval, relaying approval feedback to the rest of the team.
• Manage and organize all project files on a shared server so that others can easily find all files associated with a given project.
• Create final, print-ready game product layouts using Adobe InDesign.
• Other tasks and assignments as directed by management.

Position Skills & Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
• Strong leadership skills
• Proficient in word processing applications (e.g., MS Word), spreadsheet applications (e.g.,MSExcel)
• Familiar with Project Management software, Adobein Design, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Experience with hobbygamesa plus.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and adapt to a changing…