BioWare: Senior Outsource Producer

BioWare is seeking a creative and passionate Senior Outsource Producer who can help us turn our growing outsourcing team into a robust and comprehensive department that supports our projects in all aspects of development.  Going well beyond the outsourcing of game assets, this role will allow you to flex your creative muscle as you look for ways to add value to our projects and studio.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with project leadership to define and execute creative strategies for outsource and co-development that enhance our products and improve quality, cost-effectiveness, and/or risk mitigation.
• Build a wide variety of partnerships to deliver art, animation, UX, programming, cinematics, levels, and more.
• Manage a team of outsource managers to ensure effective, consistent communication between development partners and internal teams.
• Lead your team in finding new partners and new ways to make outsourcing and co-development work for us.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with managing outsource and/or co-dev relationships, ideally involving a variety of disciplines.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and strong emotional intelligence skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; able to work on complex problems where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors with minimal guidance.
• Highly developed relationship-building skills in a multicultural and geographically diverse environment.
• 10+ years of experience in game development; the ideal candidate will have several years of experience working with outsourcers or co-dev partners.

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

The opportunity to work and learn from a world-class games studio making world-class games. We are a culture that thrives off creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

More about our location: http://careers.ea.com/our-locations/edmonton

Katie Bieber: kbieber@ea.com

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