Executive Producer - Sports

Who We Are

Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and want our community of candidates to reflect this commitment. We encourage all qualified applicants to explore our global positions. 2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

What We Need

Reporting to the VP, Head of Production, we are looking for an Executive Producer to work with 2K studios and external partners in developing and publishing a slate of exciting new AAA titles. Our Executive Producers engage, influence and partner with the Executive Leadership Team, Studio Presidents and other internal partners to enable 2K's best-in-class creators to develop and operate extraordinary games. You will be responsible for aligning a range of collaborators against the creative and business objectives for all titles within a franchise and be responsible for the product life cycle on those titles from inception through to post-launch operations. This role will serve as the primary studio advocate as well as the voice of the franchise to internal publishing partners and executive team members, connecting each title’s product vision to strategic business objectives.

The ideal candidate is a strategic and driven leader, who truly understands what makes extraordinary games. For the titles you lead, you deeply understand the competitive landscape, the motivations of our players and how to meet and exceed player expectations. This role requires high-level relationship building to establish credibility and influence within and outside the Studio. We are a complex, interdependent, relationship-focused environment. Being a leader-of-leaders, you're able to bring groups together and work toward a specific set of goals. We look to you to supervise and lead progress, remove roadblocks and be accountable for shipping high-quality titles that our players love. The Executive Producer is a coach and mentor to their senior production staff and is ultimately responsible for ensuring their titles are delivered at quality, on time and on budget.

 

What You’ll Do

• Partners with extraordinary game studios to ensure quality execution against each game's creative vision, while balancing critical business objectives
• Serves as the franchise/product authority, its voice within 2K's publishing organization, and as an advocate for product quality with the studio & QA
• Deeply understands who the target audience is for each title and relentlessly advocates for our players at every opportunity
• Ensures every title's business outcomes and investment thesis are aligned within publishing and understood by the studio so that product decisions are made with clear success criteria and publishing goals in mind
• Understands all metrics of success - both internal and external. Challenges the ones that don't make sense. Champions the ones that do. Defines and implements metrics for their own team in order to support business outcomes.
• Models the standard for how to collaborate with other departments and with studios). Operates as an authority in navigating and resolving conflicting agendas within and outside the organization
• Acts as the motivator, enabler and mediator between studios and publishing to drive clear alignment between the studio’s creative vision and 2Ks business goals and initiatives
• Serves as a studio advocate and enabler to ensure publishing is supporting studio operations and studio needs are met by publishing with an appropriate level of priority
• Coaches and leads studios through each milestone gate, resolving misaligned expectations ahead of time, with an emphasis on adherence to schedules, budg