Description
Massive Entertainment, a world-leading AAA studio and part of the Ubisoft family, is seeking a Production Director to support the production methodology for Tom Clancy's The Division 3.
As a Production Director, you will report to the Producer and help define and implement the vision and mission for the project, while supporting the delivery on time and quality.
Key responsibilities:
- Shape production setup, ways of working and standards, ensuring teams have the support, clarity and processes they need to deliver effectively.
- Partner with project leadership on milestones, scope and planning, adapting the level of process and structure to the needs of each milestone and team.
- Ensure realistic plans, clear ownership, critical paths and dependencies, helping remove blockers, focus effort and maintain a clear path to delivery.
- Maintain visibility of progress, delivery confidence and risks, using production data, KPIs and regular assessments to support priorities, trade-offs, scope changes and mitigation plans.
- Work with project leadership on staffing, capabilities, resources, budget and priorities, supporting decisions around team setup and ensuring projects have the right capacity.
- Lead, develop and mentor producers and build a strong production culture, setting clear expectations and promoting ownership, collaboration, accountability and delivery.
- Ensure effective collaboration with co-development studios and external partners, with clear goals, ownership, dependencies, communication and ways of working, alongside effective escalation paths.
- Identify friction and drive continuous improvement, challenging ineffective ways of working and ensuring retrospectives, feedback and lessons learned lead to meaningful improvements.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience in project management and production leadership within game development.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and the ability to adapt them pragmatically to different teams and development phases.
- Proven track record of shipping AAA games while operating at a senior production leadership level.
- Experience leading production across multiple teams or disciplines on a large-scale game project.
- Experience with people management, mentoring and developing production talent.
- Strong understanding of milestone planning, scope, dependency and risk management.
- Experience working in or supporting a data-driven production environment.
- Ability to use production data and KPIs to support decisions and assess delivery confidence.
- Experience working with co-development studios, outsourcing partners or distributed development teams.