About the Company
Our client is a global leader in interactive entertainment, renowned for creating immersive worlds and unforgettable player experiences. With a commitment to delivering high-quality content and fostering vibrant communities, they consistently push the boundaries of gaming and digital media. They operate at the forefront of innovation, continually evolving their approach to engage and delight millions of players worldwide.
About the Team
Joining this team means becoming part of a dynamic and highly collaborative environment at the forefront of content creation for one of the most popular mobile games globally. You will be instrumental in shaping the player experience for millions, working alongside some of the industry's most talented producers, creatives, and strategists. This role offers unparalleled opportunities for career advancement, allowing you to develop both as a leader and a specialist in content production. Our client's substantial global scale and diverse portfolio provide a rich landscape for continuous learning, skill expansion, and the pursuit of new challenges, ensuring your career trajectory is supported and accelerated within the company.
About the Job
As a Senior Manager, Content Production in Publishing, you will play a dual role as a leader and individual contributor, driving holistic planning and execution of seasonal content production. You will report to the Publishing Lead on Wild Rift and lead global seasonal and divergent campaigns production while developing innovative staffing and outsource strategies to optimize resources while enhancing the quality and engagement with our output. You will be the go-to person for deep collaboration and transparent communication across the company's ecosystem, improving process and workflow to drive higher production efficiency and quality. You will work with brand, product, creatives, content operations, localization, and regional teams to deliver consistent, player-resonated, and focused experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Build production plans that unlock and fuse with multiple teams across the company, advise on budgets, track costs and capture savings with finance partners, manage timelines, stakeholders, and partners to ensure successful outcomes for product and content.
- Oversee every level of content creation whether you are producing directly or leading others across multiple concurrent projects.
- Establish and elevate relationships with game and publishing teams, and collaborate across multiple disciplines, from aligning strategic vision to facilitating creative meetings for concepts to coordinating final release details with our localization teams around the world.
- Lead innovation of Production workflows and establish best practices including hands-on process, tools, and creative development to improve collaboration and communication and decision-making related to content creation across the company and creative teams.
- Leverage media expertise and seasoned industry relationships to negotiate deals with external partners and agencies that provide the company with S-Tier quality services at fiscally responsible prices.
- Deliver industry-leading quality on time and on budget, ensuring that all partners look forward to working with you again.
- Evaluate our content, presenting new ways to improve our craft and our players’ experience with gameplay video and cinematic content.
- Provide mentorship and career management to unleash a team of top-tier producers.
Skills and Experience Required
- 10+ years as a lead/senior producer (or equivalent experience) in games, marketing, agency, film, VFX, or TV.
- 4+ years Management/Leadership experience to drive decision-making and level up craft.
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) in a related field.
- Expertise developing production strategies and managing schedules, budgets, staffing plans for creative and production teams, agencies, and vendors.
- Expertise with Project and Creative Management tools (e.g., Airtable, Ftrack, Frame.io) and DAMs (e.g., Iconik).
- Expertise in a variety of project types such as Web, Mobile, Video, Brand, Developer Content, Community and Social Content, and Strategic Consulting.
- Experience in creative facilitation and co-creation with Product Teams and/or programmatic development.
- Understanding of CG animation pipelines, game development pipelines, and Marketing campaign pipelines.
- Comfortable using game engine tools to create video content.
- Skilled in contract negotiation and outsource management and procurement.
- Experience with Launching Games and/or products in a live service model.
- Fluent in spoken English and Mandarin.
Desired Qualifications:
- PC, Console, and Mobile games marketing experience.
- 3+ years Experience with Localization Workflows.
- Hands-on design, video editing, or programming skills (experience with Unreal a bonus).
- Understanding of Visual Effects/Motion Graphics, Live Action Documentary.
