League of Geeks: Associate Producer

Production Assistant is needed in Melbourne VIC, Australia.

Client: League of Geeks

Location: Melbourne VIC, Australia

Contract: Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Performing various tasks as assigned by your lead producer.
• Assisting and facilitating the project principals in staying focused on discipline specific workload.
• Day to day management and line production of the assigned project planning and followup of the development cycle.
• Anticipate and address potential problems like blockers, quality concerns, budget compromises and scope changes. Communicate immediately and effectively to ensure these problems are resolved quickly before they arise.
• Safeguard and champion quality, timeliness, and economical conservatism in the main areas of game development.
• Collaborate, facilitate and support the team in solving problems creatively, rapidly resolving issues across the development team.

Requirements:

• Demonstrable understanding of the video game development process and the personnel within it.
• A keen interest and curiosity for project management and production processes, frameworks and principles.
• A people-oriented approach with excellent communication, creative collaboration, motivation and teamwork skills driven by a high level of emotional intelligence.
• Ability to work to deadlines and maintain high performance levels within your peers, identifying the areas of improvement and where focus needs to be shifted to allow smooth progress and growth within your team.
• Exceptional organisational and time management skills both for yourself and supporting others.
• Knowledge across production tools (Atlassian, Google suite, etc) and agile methodology.
• Detail sensitivity, an eye for aesthetics and strong game design sensibilities.
• A commitment to working in a professional, inclusive and supportive environment.
• Ability to work independently; managing time, task lists and workflow with ease.

Benefits:

• Bring your dog to work. Yeah, dogs.
• Talent development, mentorship and support.
• Regular self-directed professional development days.
• Flexible work arrangement opportunities and family-friendly considerations.
• Menstrual, Menopause and Parental leave.
• Sustainable working hours, environment and work-life balance.
• Friday afternoon team social events, including monthly get-togethers.
• Annual Summer family picnic, Winter Feast and Melbourne Games Week party.
• Located in Melbourne, Australia. World’s most liveable city seven years in a row.

How to Apply:

In your cover letter, in 250 words or less, please tell us what you’re excited to learn as an Associate Producer at League of Geeks.

Important Stuff:

• Base remuneration on offer (excluding benefits such as superannuation) is between $62k $78k p.a AUD (be sure to include “prorata, as per the length of the contract term.” here for contract positions). Base remuneration is dependent on experience and expertise of the applicant.
• We’ve temporarily transitioned to a hybrid working model. We plan on returning to studio in the next 12 months.
• This role can be held remotely or from our Melbourne studio. Relocation assistance is available for the perfect applicant.
• All interview stages will take place via video conference.
• For general questions and inquiries, please get in touch with careers (at) leagueofgeeks (dot) com