Niantic
Production Director – Seasonal Content
US - United States · Director
Sponsorship not specified$164k-$247kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role
- Scopely is looking for a Production Director - Seasonal Content to join our MONOPOLY GO! team, remotely within the US.
- MONOPOLY GO! is a global phenomenon and the biggest mobile game launch in history, captivating millions of players worldwide.
- Success in this role goes beyond shipping content on schedule.
Responsibilities
- Lead production for the Seasonal Content organization, overseeing the planning, execution, and successful delivery of every MONOPOLY GO! season.
- Drive the long-term evolution of the seasonal content pipeline, continuously improving how art, design, narrative, gameplay content, rewards, licensed IP, localization, and live operations move from concept through launch.
- Own content roadmap planning, art capacity planning, outsourcing strategy, and resource forecasting to maximize both creative ambition and sustainable execution.
- Partner closely with Product, Art, Design, Live Operations, Marketing, and Licensing leadership to align priorities across multiple concurrent seasonal initiatives.
- Lead cross-functional planning for major seasonal launches, proactively identifying execution risks, staffing challenges, dependency conflicts, and operational gaps before they impact delivery.
- Lead organizational change initiatives that improve how teams plan, collaborate, and execute, ensuring new processes are successfully adopted across multiple disciplines.
- Serve as a diplomatic leader who builds trust across diverse teams, navigates competing priorities with empathy, and facilitates alignment during high-pressure or ambiguous situations.
- We're a global team of game makers building one of the world's most successful live-service games.
- You'll partner across Art, Design, Product, Live Operations, Licensing, and Content teams to ensure every season delivers exceptional quality, creative novelty, operational excellence, and measurable player impact.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading production within large-scale live-service game development environments.
- Deep expertise managing content-heavy production pipelines, including art production, outsourcing, IP development, localization, approvals, and live seasonal releases.
- Proven ability to seamlessly shift between strategic leadership and hands-on production management, remaining deeply connected to execution while guiding long-term organizational direction.
- Strong expertise in production planning, capacity planning, portfolio management, dependency mapping, forecasting, and operational excellence.
- Experience leading organizations through meaningful operational change, including introducing new production processes, organizational structures, tools, or ways of working while driving strong adoption.
- Excellent judgment balancing player experience, creative ambition, technical constraints, production risk, and business priorities.
- Experience working on category-leading live service games.
- Experience within mobile free-to-play game development.
- Experience leading globally distributed development teams.
- Experience scaling production organizations during periods of rapid growth.
Compensation
- For candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below.
Benefits
- As the Production Director - Seasonal Content, you'll own the operational health, planning, and execution behind MONOPOLY GO!'s seasonal content portfolio.
- Own the operational health of the seasonal portfolio, balancing player experience, content quality, novelty, production predictability, resource utilization, and business objectives-not simply delivery against schedule.
- Drive executive-level visibility through clear reporting, production health metrics, risk assessments, and actionable recommendations.
Company info
- What We're Looking For
- We are ideally looking for someone on the East Coast of the US for this role.
- At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and strive to inspire play every day-whether through our work alongside exceptional teammates or through unforgettable experiences for millions of players.
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