Executive Producer, Interactive Media
Company: Embodied, Inc.
Location: Pasadena
Posted on: April 11, 2021
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Job Description:
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, Interactive Media- reporting to CEO Join our
team's mission to create robots to help people reach their full
potential! Embodied, Inc. is a technology company who has developed
disruptive technology to enable a new category of products of
lifelike, believable robotic characters capable of interactions
with fluid conversations, body language, eye contact, and emotions.
The first iteration of this technology is Moxie(TM), an animate
companion for children developed to help promote social, emotional,
and cognitive learning. Recognized by TIME magazine as one of the
top innovative products of 2020, Moxie(TM) has been called "the
robot pal you dreamed of as a kid" (Wired Magazine), "the
sophisticated robot for the curious child" (Wallpaper Magazine),
and "a technically impressive childhood robot" (TechCrunch). You
can learn all about MoxieTM and see how Embodied (one of Fast
Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2020) works at:
Position Summary Embodied, Inc. is looking for a veteran Executive
Producer, Interactive Media with a proven track record of
successful product launches in mobile games, edutainment, or video
games. The Executive Producer will report directly to the CEO and
have hiring, planning, scheduling and P&L responsibility. You
will work closely with the Chief Creative Officer to establish
product vision and targets and then build an operational plan and
manage the team to execute towards those targets. We're picturing
someone who has a track record for hiring and scaling teams from 30
to 100-200 while delivering excellent products and/or services.
Prior experience developing and running live services for AAA games
or content subscription services and an ability to simultaneously
managing several product lines and/or products is required. The
ideal candidate also possesses a creative/technical background and
enjoys working at all levels of a dynamic and growing organization
to insure project and company success. You will oversee our
production from a studio development perspective and insure
high-quality ongoing delivery of innovative human and robot
experiences for our users in multiple categories and for diverse
use-cases. You will define and manage production schedules and
budget, and lead a passionate and diverse production team to
success. This role also requires being able to communicate
effectively across the company, manage production risks,
dynamically adapt plans relative to community feedback and product
and/or service usage analytics while developing multi-year content
strategy and production improvement plans.
Responsibilities--- Perform as Head of Production for our content
team, delegating work and ensuring that the development process
runs smoothly and delivers on time and with the highest quality of
execution--- Guide production and coordinate work across multiple
teams and between the Engineering, Design, Art and Audio
disciplines--- Maintain a high-level lens across multiple teams to
ensure consistency, efficiency and establish best practices to
ensure quality results--- Generate tracking and status reports with
risk evaluation and recommended strategies for risk reduction.---
Lead the production function in driving project scheduling,
resource allocation, budgeting, prioritization, task tracking, and
problem solving to achieve results--- Manage day to day production
tasks and facilitate communications between all departments in the
company to ensure everyone is working toward similar goals and any
roadblocks are addressed--- Establish and maintain pipelines and
procedures for production and assist in identification and creation
of any tools necessary to do so. Assist in the creation,
organization, and maintenance of the project's document and asset
filing system--- Active role in hiring and recruiting. Help
identify candidates, perform phone interviews, set onsite agendas,
and assist in the final decision-making process--- Build, maintain
and evolve a creative environment, resolve personnel challenges,
motivate developers, serve as custodian of team health, set an
example of positivity and foster a culture that values reacting to
experiences as we make them, applying our knowledge and data to
inform decisions, leading with the best intentions, and achieves
results--- Be a vocal ambassador for the product and team in all
scenarios
Required Experience--- 10+ years as a Executive Level producer or
Studio GM with product shipping and live operations experience---
Excellent knowledge of Agile work systems (Confluence, AirTable,
Scrum, ---) and experience running a lean and/or agile production
team--- Successful deployment of live or subscription services
including OTA updates involving a connected product experience---
Proven ability to incorporate feedback from a user community and/or
user analytics in order to iteratively improve overall product
experience--- Proven track record for accomplishing project plans
along with leading teams to sustainable success--- Great instincts
to assess what works for a product or feature in development; or
how such elements may be received by our target audience--- Broad
technical understanding of common operational and development
challenges --- Highly organized, detail-oriented, self-directed,
and capable of instilling that characteristic in others through
excellent verbal and/or written communication--- Project management
software skills using Jira or other project management software---
Fluency with current trends driving user expectations and
behavior--- Good natured, enjoys complex challenges and is able to
adapt to rapidly changing conditions--- Passion for creating high
quality engaging consumer experiences Preferred Experience ---
Experience creating positive social impact through innovative high
quality cross-media experiences--- Desire to work with a highly
diverse team to create the future of human and robot experiences---
Knowledge and familiarity with kids entertainment (ages 5-10)
and/or age appropriate child development experience--- Experience
working with research departments to establish tests and interpret
data to refine design--- Experience working with projects or
services that exist across a physical to digital spectrum of
engagement--- Bachelors in CS, Math or a related technical field,
or equivalent practical experience--- Experience working with Unity
or Unreal More About Embodied, inc. From the heart of Pasadena in
sunny Los Angeles, California, our diverse team of engineers,
therapists, and designers is led by experts in robotics, AI and
machine learning, entertainment, and consumer electronics. We are
financially backed by some of the most prominent corporate and
institutional investors including Intel Capital, Toyota AI
Ventures, Amazon Alexa Fund, Sony Innovation Fund, JAZZ Venture
Partners, Calibrate Ventures, Osage University Partners, Grishin
Robotics, and Vulcan Capital. At Embodied, we support diversity and
we are an equal opportunity workplace. We offer a competitive
benefits package that includes compensation, health benefits,
employee stock options, 401(k) match, flexible PTO, and flexible
schedules. We are a dynamic and diverse team that likes to push the
status quo. Our work environment is collaborative, flexible, and
very supportive. We are continuing to build an amazing,
high-performance team that works hard to innovate, collaborate, and
solve complex challenges in order to serve our company mission and
goals. We are bold in our vision, relentless in its pursuit, and
excited to be discovering new ways to provide positive impact to
the families we serve. We are committed to our mission not because
it's easy but out of a shared boundless optimism that together we
will put a dent in the universe.
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