Ncamerica
Lead Publishing Producer
Irvine, California
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$170kDetected 35 days ago
LeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Irvine, CA pay range $130,000 - $170,000 USD
Responsibilities
- Lead publishing execution across pre-launch, launch, and live service phases, ensuring alignment with product goals, player needs, and North American market expectations.
- Act as a technically fluent publishing producer who can identify, prioritize, and drive resolution of production, service, and Live Ops issues in close partnership with development, platform, QA, and operations teams.
- Own production schedules, milestone tracking, issue follow-up, and cross-functional coordination to ensure timely and scope-accurate delivery across publishing initiatives.
- Identify risks early across development, publishing, and live operations, and implement practical mitigation plans to reduce player impact and business disruption.
- Drive major updates, events, hotfixes, and lifecycle initiatives, ensuring seamless execution and alignment with global content roadmaps.
- Partner closely with data, marketing, platform, QA, community, and development teams to ensure cohesive execution and high-quality player experiences.
- Manage external partners or development studios as needed, ensuring alignment with product goals, service standards, and delivery expectations.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in game production, publishing, Live Ops, or technical program/production management, preferably for online or live service titles.
- Proven ability to operate in fast-paced live service environments and respond quickly to production, service, player-facing, or technical issues.
- Strong understanding of the North American game market, player expectations, platform requirements, and live service operating conditions.
- Ability to translate technical issues into clear production plans, escalation steps, business impact summaries, and stakeholder communications.
- Expertise in Live Ops operations, KPI analysis, incident follow-up, and data-driven decision-making.
- Strong analytical, organizational, ownership, and communication skills, with the ability to present complex information to leadership in a clear and actionable way.
- Experience working directly with development, engineering, platform, QA, and operations teams to diagnose issues, define priorities, and drive practical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders across development, publishing, marketing, data, QA, and community.
- Experience building or improving production, publishing, and Live Ops processes across one or more titles.
- Preferred: hands-on experience or strong working knowledge in technical development, backend/service operations, build/release processes, platform certification, tools, or game systems development.
- Irvine, CA pay range
- $130,000 - $170,000 USD
Compensation
- hands-on experience or strong working knowledge in technical development, backend/service operations, build/release processes, platform certification, tools, or game systems development.
- Irvine, CA pay range
- $130,000 - $170,000 USD
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