Production Manager

Position Overview:

Own the production team from top to bottom.

Key Responsibilities:

Reports to Studio Manager and General Manager
Do daily updates with the help of your project managers about task timeline and deliverables.


BECOME A DEFIZEN & ENJOY THESE PERKS:

Competitive salary
Leave Credits & HMO once regularized
Huge growth opportunities
Weekly Employee Engagement Activities (podcasts, movie nights, game night, quiz night, mental health talks, financial wellness talks, anniversary & Christmas tokens, and many more!)
Open-Door Policy
Work with international clients
Be amongst other gamers who make games!


Duties & Responsibilities:

Take a leadership role in the whole production process of all assets, games, animations and video production being done in the studio. Lead the culture and create a sense of community within the team and evangelize this culture across the studio. Demonstrate team play, charisma, enthusiasm & a strong sense of commitment even during critical situations while anticipating problematic situations and addressing them immediately.
Own the production team and eliminate all roadblocks and critical paths in the production pipeline. Define service strategy that provides high quality and cost-effective systems, collaborate with management teams for long-term planning, organizational objectives, services strategies, key priorities, change management & risk mitigations.
Propose, manage & measure against yearly budget on a regular basis to ensure that production and its services are being delivered at the best value proposition while continuously identifying opportunities for scaling-out successful practices into new global services.
Drive improvements and processes. Implement a clear decision-making framework in the production process and ensure that the team follows the structure. Oversee and manage the development and deployment of tools and processes that can be integrated with Production’s needs and systems to facilitate their production pipelines. Set service level objectives, measure team performance & drive improvements across all departments.
Coach department leads not only with the development of their services and projects that they do but also with the development of their teams.
Collaborate with department heads to propose guidelines, support, and promote best practices for the game production teams to improve multidisciplinary collaboration while making assets, games, animations and video production.
Support producers and team leads with production organization, methods, and milestones preparation.
Coordinate staffing & recruitment plans according to studio strategy and priorities.
Report to the board of directors on a weekly basis.
Oversee the whole production team (2D art & animation, graphic design, UI, VFX, video, 3D art & animation, Unity programming, game design, content, support)