Production Director [Tom Clancy's The Division 3]

Company Description

Massive Entertainment is a world-leading AAA studio located in Malmö, Sweden and part of the Ubisoft family. We’re a multinational team of more than 750 passionate and highly skilled people from 50+ different countries. Our studio’s goal has always been – and still is – to craft the finest gaming experiences for all players. 

At Massive, you get to do what you love most while bringing your own experience to our ongoing projects, like Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Star Wars Outlaws. We're also developing new tech here, such as our in-house engine Snowdrop, and Ubisoft Connect - Ubisoft's digital ecosystem and distribution platform. 

We're also at the forefront of tech innovation, developing our proprietary Snowdrop engine, which powers many of Ubisoft’s flagship titles, and contributing to Ubisoft Connect, Ubisoft's digital ecosystem and distribution platform. Join us, and you'll have the opportunity to do what you love while shaping the future of interactive entertainment. 

Job Description

In 2023, it was announced that Massive Entertainment is leading the development of Tom Clancy's The Division 3. While we cannot unveil any details about the third entry in the series at this time, we are actively recruiting for the project. 

We're looking for a Production Director to support the production methodology, delivering top production processes, tracking, insights, documentation, risk assessments and mitigations. Reporting to the Producer, you'll also help to define, and implement the vision, and mission for the project, while supporting the delivering on time and quality.

What You'll Do:

• Shape production setup, ways of working and standards, ensuring teams have the support, clarity and processes they need to deliver effectively.
• Partner with project leadership on milestones, scope and planning, adapting the level of process and structure to the needs of each milestone and team.
• Ensure realistic plans, clear ownership, critical paths and dependencies, helping remove blockers, focus effort and maintain a clear path to delivery.
• Maintain visibility of progress, delivery confidence and risks, using production data, KPIs and regular assessments to support priorities, trade-offs, scope changes and mitigation plans.
• Work with project leadership on staffing, capabilities, resources, budget and priorities, supporting decisions around team setup and ensuring projects have the right capacity.
• Lead develop and mentor producers and build a strong production culture, setting clear expectations and promoting ownership, collaboration, accountability and delivery.
• Ensure effective collaboration with co-development studios and external partners, with clear goals, ownership, dependencies, communication and ways of working, alongside effective escalation paths.
• Identify friction and drive continuous improvement, challenging ineffective ways of working and ensuring retrospectives, feedback and lessons learned lead to meaningful improvements.

Qualifications

What You'll Bring:

You are a gamer and passionate about video game development. You're analytical and able to solve complex problems while keeping teams focused on successful delivery. You're a strong communicator and constructive collaborator who is comfortable navigating the complex interpersonal and organizational landscape of a large AAA project. You actively look for ways to remove friction for teams and understand that process is a tool rather than an objective, applying the right level of structure for the problem and maturity of the team.

You're comfortable challenging assumptions, influencing decisions and providing clear production recommendations when trade-offs are required.

Besides the above, we're looking for someone aligned with the following skills and experience:

• Extensive experience in project management and production leadership within game development; Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and the ability to adapt them pragmatically to different teams and development phases.
• Proven track record of shipping AAA games while operating at a senior production leadership level.
• Experience leading production across multiple teams or disciplines on a large-scale game project.
• Experience with people management, mentoring and developing production talent.
• Strong understanding of milestone planning, scope, dependency and risk management.
• Experience working in or supporting a data-driven production environment.
• Ability to use production data and KPIs to support decisions and assess delivery confidence.
• Experience working with co-development studios, outsourcing partners or distributed development teams.

Additional Information

Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help us create the unknown! 

You can also find a summary of the Massive Job Perks here.  

Questions? We're more than happy to answer them! Please contact Paula Roese Mesquita, Talent Acquisition Partner for this position.

All your application information will be kept confidential according to EEO & GDPR guidelines.