Kabam
Director of Production
Vancouver · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedCAD 125k-CAD 175kDetected 7 days ago
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About the role
- We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill.
- QA and Release Management report into this role, along with the Development Directors embedded across the live, core, specialist and art pipeline teams.
- This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our Downtown Vancouver studio.
Responsibilities
- Own one delivery plan across live and core work that other disciplines price and build against.
- Own the quality bar and hold go / no-go on every release; QA and Release Management report into thise role.
- Owner of the Production team; member of the game leads group and studio senior leadership.
- Partners across Product, Live Service, Game Direction, Core Development, Art, Tech and UX, and with People, Resource Management and Finance on planning.
- Works with the Product and Live Design leads to reach one agreed delivery position, and champions the organisational changes the model needs.
- we believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and want to support you in making it work for you!
- Lead capacity, headcount and delivery-cost planning, kept aligned to the commercial plan.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher, with a specialization in production, delivery, engineering management or a related discipline.
- 10+ years in games or entertainment development and production, with 5+ years leading, in a mid or large studio.
- 7+ years in a product development role
Compensation
- We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
Benefits
- DEIB is important to us and to our people - that's why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
- Commuter Benefit: we believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and want to support you in making it work for you!
- We provide a flexible, monthly cash allowance to help cover the costs of transit, parking, or even personal logistics like childcare and pet care.
- PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: t his program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
- Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
- Balance delivery output against team health to hold business outcomes.
- Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
- our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you're able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
- Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
- we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
Company info
- Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver & Montreal in Canada, and Los Angeles & San Francisco in the United States.
This listing is sourced directly from Kabam's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.