Senior Producer - Black Ember Games

Own the end-to-end development schedule, building and maintaining detailed, realistic production plans from pre-production through ship and beyond

Define milestones, deliverables, and sprint goals in close collaboration with discipline leads and studio leadership

Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and critical path issues, and develop clear mitigation strategies

Track progress across all workstreams and ensure the team is consistently working toward well-defined, achievable targets

Lead sprint planning, retrospectives, and milestone reviews, driving continuous improvement in team process and efficiency

Serve as the central coordination point across design, engineering, art, QA, and other disciplines while working closely with other Producers to divide responsibilities while remaining accountable

Facilitate clear, consistent communication across the team — ensuring everyone understands priorities, progress, and blockers at all times

Partner with leads to manage scope thoughtfully, making well-reasoned trade-off decisions that protect both quality and schedule

Foster a healthy, high-trust team culture that supports creativity while maintaining professional accountability

Lead meetings with clear agendas, goals, and objectives to ensure clear decisions and to limit meeting time.  

Administer and maintain the studio's Jira and Confluence environments, ensuring they reflect accurate, up-to-date project state

Establish and champion production best practices, documentation standards, and workflow conventions across the team

Evaluate and continuously improve production processes to increase team efficiency and reduce friction

Prepare and present clear, concise status reports and milestone summaries for studio leadership and relevant stakeholders

Represent production in cross-departmental and executive-level conversations, translating team-level detail into meaningful progress narrative

Manage expectations proactively, surfacing issues early and arriving with proposed solutions

Minimum 5 years of experience in video game production, with at least 2 shipped Console or PC titles as a Producer or Senior Producer

At least one shipped title developed in Unreal Engine

Demonstrated ability to build a full development schedule from scratch, including milestone planning, sprint cadences, and resource mapping

Expert-level proficiency in Jira and Confluence

Exceptional prioritization and estimation skills, with a track record of managing scope and delivering on commitments

Solid understanding of game development disciplines (design, engineering, art, QA) and how they interact across the production pipeline

Able to use AI tools to maximize efficiency in all tasking while maintaining a realistic view of its capabilities and limitations

Must be based in Berlin and able to work on-site in our Kreuzberg office a minimum of 3 days per week

Professional fluency in English is required

German language skills are a strong plus

Excellent communicator across technical and non-technical audiences, both written and verbal

Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence without authority

High degree of self-direction and personal accountability

Calm and solutions-oriented under pressure, with strong conflict resolution skills

Experience working at a mid-sized studio on commercially and critically successful PC or console titles

Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and how to adapt them pragmatically to game development realities

Experience managing external partners, co-development relationships, or outsource pipelines

Knowledge of additional production tooling (Shotgrid, Hansoft, etc.)