About the Role
2K is seeking an experienced and strategic Producer to join the Core Games Publishing team. This role involves collaborating with development and internal publishing groups to support milestone delivery, cross-functional alignment, and operational execution for high-profile AAA projects. The Producer will guide feature and milestone delivery with a focus on quality and timeliness, manage project execution, mitigate risks, and maintain clear communication with stakeholders in a fast-paced, creative environment.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to product strategy and execution through game development process knowledge.
- Identify opportunities for innovation in workflows and product quality.
- Support milestone planning and delivery by ensuring timely information flow.
- Balance scope, schedule, and cost tradeoffs for delivery outcomes.
- Manage execution for defined features, workstreams, or a product.
- Contribute to product planning to balance quality, time, and cost.
- Advise leadership on project risks and opportunities.
- Resolve daily operational and development challenges.
- Coordinate across functions to ensure milestone success.
- Develop strong working relationships with studio and publishing peers.
- Align multiple disciplines around shared goals.
- Ensure coordination across workstreams and surface gaps or misalignments.
- Craft clear, concise updates for stakeholders at all levels.
- Support the creation of decks, reports, and milestone documentation.
- Build alignment across development and publishing teams through structured communication.
- Advocate for the player experience in planning and tradeoffs.
- Work closely with Research, Community, Data Science, and Product Management teams.
- Maintain awareness of player sentiment and expectations.
- Maintain a high bar for quality across all deliverables.
- Proactively track quality risks and increase visibility.
- Support prioritization efforts to deliver the resolution of known issues.
- Ensure the game delivers a consistently engaging and stable player experience.
Requirements
- 3–5+ years of experience in game production, publishing production, product management, or related roles.
- Exposure to full game lifecycles including post-launch operations.
- Hands-on experience with live service games or ongoing content production.
- Comfort with distributed development, including studios in different time zones or regions.
- Experience working cross-functionally with development teams and internal publishing groups.
- Proven ability to manage schedules, deliverables, and communications across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Comfort with ambiguity and strong instincts for risk spotting and issue triage.
- A proactive mindset: spot gaps, ask questions, and collaborate to improve processes.
- Tailored communication skills, including writing clearly, leading meetings, and creating alignment documentation.
- Experience building trust and alignment across a wide range of partners.
- Deep passion for games and ability to articulate what makes a quality AAA game.
- Embodies 2K’s values and serves as a role model for excellence, integrity, and creative leadership.
- Ready to contribute hands-on and eager to help out wherever needed.
- Experience managing feature budgets or financial workflows.
Skills
- Game production
- Publishing production
- Product management
- Live service games
- Distributed development
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Schedule management
- Deliverable management
- Communication
- Risk management
- Issue triage
- Budget management
- Financial workflows
- AAA development
- Research and analytics
- Systems-based game development
Location
- Novato, California
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3-5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $108,900 - $160,000 per Year
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity awards
- Full range of medical benefits
- Financial benefits
- Other benefits
About the Company
- Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company publishing titles developed by influential studios like Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, and HB Studios.
- 2K publishes titles in popular genres including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.
- The company's portfolio includes franchises such as NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, WWE 2K, and XCOM.
- 2K is headquartered in Novato, California, and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform their essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
- 2K Games and its studios never use instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com accounts.
