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POSITION PROFILE AND REQUIREMENTS

Mission
The game executive’s mission is to direct and orchestrate a multi-disciplinary group of individuals into delivering an outstanding quality video game product on time and on budget, thereby achieving high client satisfaction (internal or external) in a profitable fashion. The GE has complete ownership of a product’s development cycle from conception to completion including technical, creative and financial responsibilities.


Roles and responsibilities
• Business development:
 Identify creative, technical and market opportunities for existing product line extensions and new products.
 Prepare project proposals for potential clients and partners as directed by the company president.
 Manage dealings and necessary follow ups with these potential partners.

• Customer service:
 Manage relationships with current clients, including ensuring good communications throughout development, understanding and managing expectations…
 Ensure agreements are respected and key milestones met.

• Team management:
 Build and mentor a high performance collaborative team of approximately 65 people, including a creative director, artistic director, programming director as well as game directors and their teams.
 Hire, train, supervise, motivate and mentor team members on an ongoing basis.
 Manage performance assessment, review systems and compensation for the team.
 Ensure the team understands and embraces corporate direction.


Roles and responsibilities (continued)

• Project management:
 Build a budget and a plan for each project that articulate return on investment.
 Give clear direction on projects under their supervision, and arbitrate conflicting views when necessary.
 Oversee development process to ensure that key project milestones are established, met and ideally surpassed.
 Ensure appropriate market testing is incorporated in the product development process.
 Ensure product branding is optimal to leverage market reaction and effectively position the product.
 Take final responsibility for the quality of the end product.
 Manage resource allocation in a profitable way.
 Act as spokesperson for the project to senior management, throughout the organization as well as externally as directed by senior management.

• Administrative responsibilities:
 Generally ensure a profitable operation delivering or surpassing established plans.
 Forecast and manage budget reports on a regular basis.
 Ensure follow up on client payments as per agreements.


Experience and professional expertise
5+years experience in the videogame industry as an executive.
Experience in managing a large creative/technical team
Solid client servicing experience of US or English Canada based client.


Personal profile
• Passionate about game playing
• Result oriented individual
• Entrepreneurial style
• Strong team management skills
• Strong business acumen
• Experience and sensitivity to brand building
• Fluent in English, French an asset


Professional profile - « Savoir-faire »


Customer focus
• is dedicated to meeting or surpassing the expectations and requirements for internal and external customers
• gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services
• acts with customers in mind
• establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect


Timely decision making
• makes effective decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure
• able to make a quick but good decision


Innovation management
• is good at bringing the creative ideas of others to market
• has good judgement about which creative ideas and suggestions will work
• has a sense about managing the creative process of others
• can facilitate effective brainstorming
• can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace


Negotiating
• can negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups
• can settle differences with minimum noise
• can win concessions without damaging relationships
• can be both direct and forceful as well as diplomatic
• gains trust quickly of other parties to the negotiations
• has a good sense of timing


Building effective teams
• blends people into teams when needed
• creates strong morale and spirit in his/her team
• shares wins and successes
• fosters open dialogue
• lets people finish and be responsible for their work
• defines success in terms of the whole team
• creates a feeling of belonging in the team


Professional profile -


Dealing with ambiguity
• can effectively cope with change
• can shift gears comfortably
• can decide and act without having the total picture
• isn’t upset when things are up in the air
• doesn’t have to finish things before moving on
• can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty


Drive for results
• can be counted on to exceed goals successfully
• is constantly and consistently one of the top performers
• very bottom-line oriented
• steadfastly pushes self and others for results



Academic background
• People in this position might come from quite diverse backgrounds.
• University degree