Associate Producer

About the Role

Keywords Studios seeks a highly organized and proactive Associate Producer to assist in the timely and budget-conscious delivery of superior game development projects. Collaborating closely with the Producer or Lead Producer, you will coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, keep project schedules updated, track deliverables, enable clear communication, and detect risks or dependencies that could impact production.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist Producers in planning, coordinating, and executing assigned game development projects.
• Support teams to deliver high-quality products within agreed budgets, schedules, and scopes.
• Organize, implement, and oversee project activities across one or more development areas.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor development timelines, task boards, documentation, and production reporting.
• Monitor milestone progress and follow up on outstanding tasks, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Lead regular team or sub-team meetings to ensure clear documentation and communication of decisions and actions.
• Maintain effective communication across development disciplines, project leadership, clients, and stakeholders.
• Support preparation, review, and submission of milestone deliverables to clients and management.
• Identify production risks, blockers, and resource constraints and escalate as necessary.
• Assist in resolving impediments and cross-discipline dependencies affecting the development team.
• Work alongside team leads to clarify priorities, goals, and expectations.
• Monitor team capacity, workload, and productivity to proactively mitigate delivery risks.
• Facilitate onboarding and integration of new team members.
• Contribute to retrospectives, project reviews, and ongoing production process improvements.
• Keep project information accurate and current within production and project management tools.
• Cultivate open communication, collaboration, and a positive team environment.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in project coordination, production, project management, or team coordination.
• Preferably experience supporting or coordinating projects on PC, console, or live-operations games.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills capable of juggling multiple priorities effectively.
• Familiarity with productivity and project management software such as Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Jira, Hansoft, Confluence, or Microsoft Project.
• Adept at preparing and maintaining schedules, task trackers, meeting minutes, status reports, and other production documents.
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities.
• Comfortable collaborating with multidisciplinary teams including art, design, engineering, QA, and audio.
• Ability to identify and communicate risks, dependencies, and issues to relevant stakeholders.
• Proactive, adaptable, and able to thrive in a fast-paced development setting.
• Balancing quality, scope, timing, cost, and team factors in production choices.
• Capable of independent work while maintaining regular communication with project leadership.
• Collaborative with a supportive outlook toward team members and stakeholders.
• Keen interest in video games and strong understanding of the PC and console markets.

Preferred Additional Experience

• Knowledge of Scrum, Agile, or other iterative project management frameworks.
• Familiarity with SAFe or other scaled Agile methodologies.
• Experience in live operations or post-launch content delivery.
• Background in PC and console game development.
• Understanding of console certification and submission workflows.
• Experience with co-development or work-for-hire projects.
• Working with distributed or international development teams.
• Client-facing coordination experience.
• Supporting external development partners or vendors.
• Relevant project management training or certifications.

Additional Information

Only candidates with valid working rights in Singapore, Malaysia, or Indonesia will be considered; no sponsorship or relocation assistance is offered.

Keywords Studios promotes Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging and is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a respectful and inclusive workplace. Candidates requiring accommodations during the recruitment process can request adjustments.

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Role Details

• Studio: Keywords Studios
• Location: APAC (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia)
• Field: Game Development
• Service Area: Create
• Employment Type: Contract
• Working Pattern: Full-Time, Remote or Hybrid