At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Melbourne · Hipster Whale
About Atari
- At Hipster Whale, we're passionate about creating bright and funny arcade action games that appeal to broad audiences - games that players will continue to enjoy for years to come!
- We’re looking for an experienced Senior Producer to join our team in a permanent, ongoing role.This is a highly collaborative role for someone who brings clarity, focus and momentum to game development. You’ll work across multiple projects and disciplines, helping teams plan effectively, make informed decisions, manage risks and deliver high-quality games on time and within scope.
About the role
- You'll support both new development and live-ops releases across several mobile titles, partnering with a variety of disciplines, platform partners and other stakeholders.
- You'll manage schedules and dependencies, keep communication flowing, and help teams stay motivated and focused on shared goals.
Responsibilities
- Own production across multiple projects, including new development and live-ops releases.
- Create and maintain project plans and release roadmaps, ensuring priorities, milestones, dependencies and key dates are clear and up to date.
- Help teams prioritise effectively, manage scope and make clear trade-offs between quality, time and resources.
- Identify risks, dependencies and delivery issues early, then work with teams and stakeholders to develop practical solutions.
- Facilitate effective communication and decision-making within teams and with external stakeholders.
- Facilitate collaboration between disciplines and make dependencies visible so teams can work effectively together.
- Keep Jira and Notion accurate and up to date so they provide a reliable source of truth for roadmaps, tasks, documentation and releases.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
- Support continuous improvement of our production processes, tools and ways of working.
- Help create a psychologically safe, collaborative environment where people feel comfortable sharing ideas, raising concerns and taking creative risks.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in the games industry or similar, having delivered multiple commercial projects
- Experience working on mobile games and familiarity with the mobile release processes, including Apple App Store and Google Play
- A deep understanding of core production principles and practices, including Agile methodologies
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with experience working across disciplines and with stakeholders at all levels of an organisation
- The ability to identify problems early, communicate them clearly and help teams reach practical decisions
- Confidence working with schedules, dependencies, project documentation and spreadsheets
- Experience using task and project management tools such as Jira
- Enthusiasm for games and a good sense of humour
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working on Apple Arcade titles
- Experience supporting live-ops development, regular content updates or post-launch product development
- Scrum Master, Agile or project management certification.
- Professional experience in another game development discipline, such as design, engineering, art, or QA
- Experience improving production processes, team structures or development workflows
- Particular interests you have that may contribute positively to our studio
Benefits
- Competitive salary
Workplace
- Hybrid working arrangement, with a minimum of two days per week in the Melbourne studio (Mondays and Thursdays).
- Remote arrangements may be considered for the right candidate, with preference given to applicants based locally.
- Applicants based in Australia must hold appropriate Australian working rights.
Skills
- Agile
- Jira
- Notion
- Scrum
- Apple App Store
- Google Play
