Game Producer

About Yahoo

Yahoo serves as a trusted guide for hundreds of millions of people globally, helping them achieve their goals online through our portfolio of iconic products. For advertisers, Yahoo Advertising offers omnichannel solutions and powerful data to engage with our brands and deliver results.

Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900 million people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming, and news—through trusted products, content, and technology that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform that helps businesses amplify growth and build meaningful connections across advertising, search, and media.

Within Yahoo Games, our mission is to make games a natural extension of the daily Yahoo experience—easy to discover, fun to play, and rewarding to return to. We’re reimagining Yahoo Games as a place where players can take a break, relax, and connect through great casual games, powered by strong production discipline and creative collaboration.

The Role of a Game Producer

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Game Producer to lead the development and production of Yahoo Games first-party original games and to manage the integration of third-party games into the Yahoo Games platform. In this role, you will be responsible for end-to-end production management—partnering closely with Product Management, Game Design, Engineering, and Creative teams, as well as external partners, to bring high-quality casual games to market.

This role blends strong production rigor with a deep love of games and player experience and is critical to delivering a predictable, high-quality pipeline of both 1P and 3P games.

Key Responsibilities

• Own production management for Yahoo Games first-party original games from concept through live operations.
• Partner with Product Management and Game Design to define the game vision, core loop, features, and scope.
• Assess game scope to determine feasibility against timelines.
• Create and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and milestones across design, engineering, art, QA, and live ops.
• Organize and coordinate internal teams and external development partners to ensure smooth execution.
• Manage the end-to-end process for third-party game integrations, including intake, scheduling, coordination with external developers, and internal readiness.
• Work closely with Engineering, QA, Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to ensure third-party games meet Yahoo standards and requirements.
• Drive Agile workflows, including backlog management, story generation, sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and asset creators to resolve dependencies and unblock delivery.
• Manage QA processes to ensure high-quality releases across desktop and mobile web platforms.
• Support live operations post-launch, including updates, bug fixes, content refreshes, and performance tuning.
• Communicate status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders and leadership.
• Champion quality, player experience, and sustainable development practices throughout production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Game Producer or in a production role within the games industry.
• Proven experience shipping casual games, ideally on desktop and mobile web platforms.
• Strong understanding of game development pipelines, Agile methodologies, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Experience working with both internal teams and external development partners.
• Experience managing third-party integrations or external partner workflows.
• Ability to create and manage complex project plans while adapting to changing priorities.
• Strong communication and organizational skills, with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Experience overseeing QA and supporting live operations for shipped games.
• A deep passion for making great games and delivering high-quality player experiences.
• Proficiency with Jira and managing projects through the software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on daily games or live-ops driven products.
• Familiarity with browser-based game development constraints and performance considerations.
• Experience collaborating closely with product managers in a product-led organization.

Key skills/competency

• Game Production
• Agile Methodologies
• Project Management
• Casual Games
• Live Operations
• Third-Party Integration
• Stakeholder Communication
• QA Management
• Jira
• Player Experience