Associate Producer

Similar Titles

• Associate Producer
• Assistant Producer
• Production Assistant
• Associate Production Coordinator

Role Summary

An Associate Producer is a key player in supporting game development projects, working to ensure tasks are completed on time and within budget. Their responsibilities may vary, but they generally include scheduling and keeping track of tasks, creating and maintaining project documentation, removing any obstacles hindering progress, organising meetings, and updating key stakeholders on the project’s status. Their role is to help maintain a focused and smooth workflow for the team, aiming for successful project delivery.

Ideal candidates for this role have a keen interest in creative and strategic thinking, problem-solving, relationship-building, and project management. They should be outgoing communicators who can merge different processes and think creatively to address and solve challenges. Junior Producers act as the connecting glue for the project, assisting the team in prioritising tasks and ensuring that development proceeds as efficiently as possible, leveraging their organisational and people skills.

What to expect in the day to day duties:

• Responsible for assisting in the tracking of the progress of various projects.

• Responsible for Ensuring team members have necessary resources like software, hardware, and assets.

• Tasked with aiding in the creation of reports to help maintain transparency and keep stakeholders informed.

• Tasked with Facilitating effective communication and understanding between different departments.

• Accountable for helping facilitate meetings and workshops by providing agendas, keeping people on topic; listening to what everyone is saying so no-one's points get lost; suggesting techniques for creative problem-solving; and supporting the group to address a conflict if it arises.

• Charged with supporting the quality delivery of projects and promptly addressing potential hindrances, like small budgets, unsynchronised development teams, and deadlines, under guidance.

• Entrusted with assisting in assessing and maintaining project timelines and identifying possible risks or delays.

• Duties involve assisting in the creation and maintenance of documentation to uphold project organisation.

• Plays a key role in supporting the team's daily tasks by facilitating communication, and helping with task management and prioritisation

• Responsible for monitoring the overall well-being of the team.

• In charge of helping establish and manage project priorities under senior guidance.

• Assigned with aiding in both internal and external communications.

• Responsible for continuous learning, understanding new approaches, and adapting processes.

• Accountable for assisting in maintaining the JIRA database.

• Responsible for escalating obstacles and seeking advice under supervision.

• Plays a Critical Role in crisis management by finding solutions to challenges and keeping the project on track.

• Entrusted with aiding in monitoring monthly spending to support budget management.

Portfolio examples:

• Rodrigo Peña Salvador: rodrigopsalvador.com
• Andre Peters: https://adepeters.com/