Job description
Our Mission:
To capture the hearts and minds of millions of players across the world by creating unforgettable games powered by the best technology.
About Us:
PlayQ is a rapidly growing entertainment and technology company that recognizes quality is king as we deliver unforgettable mobile game experiences to a global audience. Our games engage millions of users daily, surprising them with creativity, beauty and fun!
Our latest hit game, Treasure Party, uniquely combines match-3 puzzle gameplay with a board game adventure, offering a vibrant treasure-hunting experience. Treasure Party is quickly becoming a top title in the match-3 genre with fresh adventures and a fun, rewarding journey perfect for puzzle lovers and adventurers alike.
Our team is driven, playful and deeply committed to excellence and innovation. We work together to craft clever, visually stunning, and memorable experiences. PlayQ’s environment values initiative, collaboration, and individual leadership to ensure that our mission is fulfilled.
Who You Are:
- Proactive Achiever You consistently take the initiative to drive business results, supported by sound reasoning and detailed execution plans.
- Growth Driver You champion company-wide success by relentlessly focusing on achieving results, understanding how your work impacts the entire organization, and pushing to make it 10% better every time. You continuously level yourself up and drive the business forward.
- Solution Seeker Fueled by curiosity, you explore various ways to solve a problem. Every hard problem is an opportunity in disguise.
- Team Builder You actively foster strong dynamics within and between teams, contributing to our collective success.
- Resilient Leader You consistently approach your work with resilience and a steadfast passion for achievement of our goals despite challenges or setbacks.
- Data-Driven Creator You leverage data to back intuition. Empirical creativity is your go-to. Imagination led, data validated.
Why you’ll want to come to work:
Our Senior Producer role offers the rare opportunity to shape and deliver the continued success of Treasure Party, the next massive hit in the match-3 genre. This is a high-impact role where you will play a critical role in driving execution on the full development lifecycle for our top mobile title. Leveraging your expertise in game production, you will drive cross-functional alignment, optimize workflows, and steer strategic decisions for a game that has already achieved product-market fit.
This role will directly advance both player engagement and revenue growth, making a measurable impact on player experience and business performance alike. This is a chance to make high-visibility decisions in a collaborative, player-first studio culture, while helping steer one of the most exciting titles in mobile gaming today.
Your Responsibilities:
- Production Expertise: Lead cross-functional collaboration, keeping projects on track and ensuring releases are executed with precision and excellence.
- Framework Optimization: Establish, refine, and evolve production processes, tools, and frameworks to support seamless planning, predictability, and delivery. Champion agile methodologies to drive adaptability, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
- Project Management: Leverage project management tools to provide visibility, track progress, and generate actionable insights that improve team performance and accountability.
- Milestone and Delivery Oversight: Guide projects from concept to release, ensuring creative and technical standards are met. Anticipate shifts, adjust plans, and maintain alignment to deliver high-quality releases on schedule and within budget.
- Risk Management: Identify bottlenecks and dependencies early, and implement effective solutions to minimize delays and keep projects moving forward.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Foster communication and collaboration across stakeholders, driving clarity, informed decision-making, and shared ownership of outcomes.
- Strategic Product Oversight: Maintain a deep understanding of the product’s design, technology, performance, and data to influence decisions that shape both player experience and business success.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead initiatives to refine workflows, streamline practices, and elevate overall output quality.
- Release Planning: Align development schedules across teams, balancing priorities, interdependencies, and resources to ensure smooth, predictable launches.
What you’ll bring to the team:
- Degree: B.S. or B.A. degree from an accredited college/university.
- Experience: 5+ years of game production experience, preferably in the mobile games industry, with at least one shipped title credited as a Producer in a senior or lead capacity.
- Technical Proficiency: Deep technical proficiency in project management and development tools (JIRA, Git, Perforce), familiarity in Agile/SCRUM methodologies, and a proven track record of guiding high-performing teams to deliver exceptional results.
- Ability: Strong leadership and communication skills, with the capacity to motivate teams, influence without authority, and thrive under deadlines in high-pressure situations.
- Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of the F2P mobile gaming market, including key KPIs and strategies to drive improvements, combined with expertise in game design, tech, performance, data, and live ops.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Demonstrated success working closely with senior stakeholders and cross-discipline teams to deliver complex, high-impact products.
Bonus Points:
- Industry experience: Prior experience in the mobile gaming industry, especially with match-3 titles or other casual F2P games.
Working at PlayQ:
- Unparalleled opportunities to make a meaningful impact on a mission-driven team
- Competitive compensation with a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life, long-term disability, and even pet insurance
- Flexible time off
- 401(k) plan with company matching to invest in your future
- A brand-new, creatively designed office space filled with natural light, collaborative areas, and free parking with easily accessible EV charging stations
- Prime location—just a short walk from top restaurants, coffee shops, and the metro
- Fully stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages to keep you fueled
- Create incredible games—for a living! Because who doesn’t love games?
At PlayQ, we leverage competitive benchmarking data when setting each role’s base pay range. Individual base salary will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, scope of role, business need and geographic location.The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$100,000-$140,000 USD
Additional information:
- In-office location: Santa Monica, CA. Open to remote for the right candidate.
- This role is offered as a full time position.
If your skillset aligns with the requirements of this role, we will contact you through our official Applicant Tracking System (Greenhouse) or company email address (@playq.net). If you receive communication from a different domain, this communication is not from a legitimate representative of PlayQ.
