Producer

Coal Car Studio
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Posted
March 28, 2025
Full Time
PT ± 3 hours
Remote
$65,000 - $110,000

Coal Car Studio is looking for a Producer to help drive the development of Fruit Golf, our original multiplayer virtual reality game. If you're excited about creating immersive experiences and enjoy working in dynamic environments, we'd love to have you on our team. As a Producer, you'll work closely with Team Directors to achieve both short- and long-term goals. Your role will include scoping tasks, tracking progress, overcoming challenges, and motivating the team. You'll play a key part in shaping our launch strategy and scaling production as we work towards our 2025 release. You may also contribute to other exciting projects at Coal Car Studio.

This is a full-time, permanent position with the flexibility of hybrid or fully remote work. Preference will be given to those based in Vancouver, Canada.

 

Role Overview: 

As a Producer, you will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day project operations, ensuring smooth workflows, and fostering collaboration among team members. Your work will help keep the team motivated, address challenges, and ensure that production goals are met.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Track team tasks using Microsoft Azure DevOps.
  • Manage deadlines and plan schedules to meet objectives.
  • Identify risks and roadblocks, and help find creative solutions.
  • Facilitate communication across internal teams (Design, Art, Technical).
  • Support stand-up meetings and team gatherings.
  • Run sprints, including planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
  • Generate reports on project progress, including burndown charts.
  • Assist in creating and maintaining project budgets.
  • Support grant applications and funding reports.
  • Attend partnership development meetings.
  • Recommend improvements to streamline production processes.
  • Organize playtesting sessions and gather feedback to improve the game.
  • Coordinate with external vendors and contractors as needed.
  • Ensure adherence to timelines and quality standards.
  • Foster a positive work environment, motivating team members and celebrating successes.
  • Document milestones, lessons learned, and retrospective outcomes for continuous improvement.
  • Assist with grant writing and project proposals.
  • Lead the certification process for release, ensuring all requirements are met for platforms, including consoles and VR.
  • Help the team prepare for shipping, including managing submissions, meeting platform requirements, and troubleshooting any last-minute issues.

 

Qualifications:

  • Certificate, diploma, or degree in Game Design, Arts, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Previous experience in production or project management in gaming or tech.
  • Experience shipping a game, including going through the certification process for release, ideally on console or VR.
  • Familiarity with programming and art pipelines.
  • Experience with VR/AR is a plus, but not required.
  • Proficiency with Git version control in a team environment is a plus, but not required.
  • Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
  • Willingness to stay current with project management tools and workflows.
  • Strong communication and teamwork skills.
  • Excellent time management skills and ability to meet deadlines.

 

Our Games:

Founded by two brothers, Coal Car Studio believes that games are more than just solo experiences. We're focused on creating social virtual reality experiences that can be enjoyed with friends and family. By embracing innovative technologies and creative gameplay, we aim to make VR more inclusive and bring the joy of shared gaming experiences back into the spotlight.

 

Compensation: 

We offer a competitive salary ($65,000 - $110,000), flexible work arrangements, 3 weeks of vacation plus a winter holiday closure, and a comprehensive benefits package.

 

Diversity and Inclusion: 

We believe in fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

 

How to Apply: 

Send us an email with your resume and portfolio link. We’re excited to see what you bring to our world!

About 
Coal Car Studio

Coal Car Studio is an award-winning Vancouver-based team passionate about immersive technology and pioneering new ways to play together. Having worked in the XR industry since 2015, we believe this technology is the future. We design and develop a mix of games, educational and enterprise experiences, and brand activations, but our passion is gaming. The more social, the better.

While based in Vancouver, we support a hybrid work environment with team members distributed around the globe. We are an equal opportunity employer with a diverse, talented team. We pride ourselves on having an open, honest, and supportive culture that puts our team’s wellbeing above all.

We are looking for smart, creative individuals to help craft immersive experiences and make the world a better place.

Featured Game
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Fruit Golf is an asymmetrical virtual reality (VR) game where golf balls are replaced by fruit and your friends rain terror down on the course as you putt. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to whack a watermelon, pineapple, or star fruit with a golf club? Well, Fruit Golf can’t promise the most realistic physics, but each fruit has its own unique way of sliding, bouncing, wobbling, and rolling down the course.

VR can be a very isolating experience – now it doesn’t have to be. Fruit Golf brings the zany course out of the headset and into your friends’ hands where they can directly manipulate the world around you through a free companion app. The golfer will try to navigate courses such as pirate ships besieged by a Kraken, the castle of the vampiric blood orange, or the solar system where all the planets are fruit, and the moon is a banana. In the meanwhile, the players outside VR will coordinate their assault to make it as difficult as possible for the golfer to reach the hole. Some obstacles are simple blockades, others explode launching the fruit out of bounds, while others require teamwork. Take for instance the simple windup mouse, all alone it will simply patrol a section of the course, but if a fellow saboteur drops a piece of cheese, not even a wayward pineapple can stop the mouse from reaching its prize.

Solo players will also be able to play all the courses with or without obstacles, as well as hone their skills in a variety of challenge levels. The challenge levels will force the player to take a break from the frenetic never stopping action of the multiplayer mode and focus on making the perfect shot and solve the puzzle of each challenge course tailored to quirks of every fruit. Given all this, Fruit Golf is a whole fruit basket worth of fun!

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