Senior Producer @ ArenaNet

At ArenaNet, we’ve always believed that games are art. They have the power to communicate ideas and tell stories. They can change the way we think, reflect our cultures, and move us. As the developer of the award-winning Guild Wars game series, we’re proud to share our passion for the online worlds we’ve created with over 11 million players worldwide.

ArenaNet develops and publishes games for every kind of person, which means our games need to be built by every kind of person. We believe the best experiences come from working together, celebrating differences, and helping each of our team members shine.

As a Senior Producer, you are passionate about shepherding all forms of Art from initial concept to the release of live content to players, including static and dynamic art assets, animations, and visual effects. You are ready to take on new challenges with teams, helping them make the most of the time they have available. You are comfortable leading several projects and making sure feedback is appropriately followed up and plans are updated as conditions change.

What You’ll Do

Support Art teams in tracking art requests, dependency mapping, scheduling, and scope management
Keep the pipeline full of requests to ensure efficient use of art team resources
Collaborate with design, narrative, outsourcing, cinematics, marketing, and programming to scope projects, budget resources, create project schedules, and meet critical milestones
Monitor change requests and escalate when significant changes to project scope occur, communicating changes to impacted stakeholders
Identify Risks and develop mitigation strategies, communicating status to affected teams and stakeholders
Partner with production peers and escalate as needed to remove blocking issues
Jira admin support for multiple projects
Communicate art asset status to teams and stakeholders; create and maintain reports on development progress
Track multiple intricate details across long timespans
Refine the art development processes to increase production efficiency and quality

What You’ll Need to be Successful

Knowledge of Art pipelines and workflows
Mid to senior level experience with game production in AAA game development or similar field in entertainment
Good verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of personnel in art, design, programming, and management
Ability to create project schedules and milestones and monitor the progress of tasks towards those schedules
Experience using both Agile and Waterfall game development methodologies
Experience working with Jira
Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities
Experience disambiguating complicated problem domains
Data driven, able to combine data with subjective insights to help inform decision making
Adept at navigating frequent changes to scope or success criteria, and skilled at guiding others through the same
Ability to create and implement appropriate production processes customized to individual team needs while also synchronizing with standards
Familiarity with budget ownership a plus
Experience working with large, cross-disciplined teams a plus

This is a hybrid position based out of our Bellevue, WA office.

Please note that the pay range listed in this job posting reflects the full salary range for this position. While we provide this range to offer transparency, our target hiring range typically falls between the minimum and the midpoint, allowing for growth potential within the role.

Total compensation is salary plus an annual bonus potential. When determining an offer amount, many things are taken into consideration such as qualifications, experience, internal equity and work location. We strive to provide competitive and equitable compensation packages to all our employees.

This role is also eligible for medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short and long term disability, 401(k), flexible and dependent care spending accounts, PTO, paid holidays and parental leave.

Bellevue pay range

$113,395—$170,095 USD

Don’t meet every single requirement on this job post? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At ArenaNet, we believe diversity in culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and backgrounds make us a better team – we celebrate it. So, if you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.