SCAP

Producer

About the role

Swedish game studio of about 30 people, fully remote by choice.
Currently launching Scape on Steam Early Access, a platform of multiplayer games with shared player identity.
First title: Gravity (a 100-player precision climbing game).
Senior team has shipped and run live games at studios including Arrowhead (Helldivers 2), Avalanche Studios, Epic, and Ubisoft.

This is the only production seat in the company and holds real authority.
Role involves working closely with the Creative Director, owning the plan, priorities, scope, sequencing, and trade-offs within milestones.
Responsibilities include:
- Knowing how a game gets made, assessing dependencies, effort, and estimate feasibility.
- Owning the plan and priorities, including making or facilitating decisions and ensuring open questions are resolved.
- Planning ahead to identify risks early and ensure alignment across builds, assets, store material, localization, and press dates.
- Leading the team's delivery, meeting teams at their specific needs (some require deep involvement, others a high-level picture).
- Improving existing production pipelines and tools.

Production Priorities: Day-to-day work order across the studio, trade-off calls, and resolution of blocking questions.
Cross-Department Alignment: Keeping design, art, engineering, QA, and marketing in step.
Forward View: Tracking features in flight, handoffs, and proactive risk mitigation.
Delivery Health: Sustainable pace, morale, and meeting delivery targets.
Marketing Dependencies: Alignment of release dates, builds, assets, and localization drops.
Production Planning: Milestone schedules with baselines, velocity-based forecasting, and cyclic replanning.
QA Coordination: Ensuring QA is aligned with build schedules and testing windows.
External Production: Managing relationships with localization, video, 3D, and other partners, including chasing deliverables and integration.
Processes and Tools: Owning Jira and Jira Plans for the studio and supporting hiring managers with recruitment processes.

Approximately five years of experience in games production (flexible if candidate can demonstrate required skills).
Understanding of game development across disciplines and dependency management.
Experience producing several titles and shipping at least one PC title (including feature lock, bug burn, and submission).
Experience owning priorities and making cut-or-keep decisions on a shipped title.
History of working closely with founders, studio heads, or creative directors.
Proven ability to build and drive schedules and document ways of working.
Ability to lead a team to a target without burnout.
Proactive, independent work style.
Ability to maintain direct, trusted communication with team leads.
Fluent in Jira (including Jira Plans) at an administrative level.
Must work on CET time and be comfortable in English.

Specific Steamworks experience (builds, depots, store pages, review, submission, and Early Access behavior).
Experience with live operations and patch cadences.
Prior experience with external production partners.
Experience at a small studio as the sole producer or in a dual producer/product owner role.
Experience with remote-first teams.

The whole project and significant authority over decision-making.
Collaboration with strong leads and a Creative Director who delegates effectively.
A visible role within a growing company.
A remote-first, self-motivated work environment.

SCAP

Games & Interactive