Senior Production Manager

Scopely
Scopely
Barcelona, SpainOn-siteCompetitiveAdded 1 month ago
Scopely

Senior Production Manager

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Scopely is looking for a Senior Production Manager to join our team at Flamed (Scopely's in-house creative agency) in the Barcelona Office on a Hybrid basis (3x week)

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day, whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

We are the in-house creative agency, Flamed, an international multidisciplinary team. We build thousands of creatives every year to support Scopely's global Marketing needs. You will work on the leading mobile game: MONOPOLY GO!

What You'll Do

The Senior Production Manager leads a passionate team of seven  producers who turn plans into action - delivering high-quality, scalable creative work across all marketing and product campaigns. This role is all about connecting ideation and execution, ensuring flawless delivery through smart planning, strong process discipline, and empowered teamwork. This person will be accountable for the delivery on-time, on-budget execution for the team, ensuring every project lands with excellence and impac

Collaboration is key here - we're looking for a team player who can build a culture of trust and accountability, while inspiring others to do their best work. The right person will drive production strategy, forecasting, workflow and capacity optimization, and continuous improvement - all while ensuring cost-effectiveness, speed, and quality stay perfectly in balance to keep Flamed's creative engine running at full power.

Your responsibilities will include:

Owning Production Strategy & Alignment 

Connect ideation and execution streams, ensuring seamless collaboration between creative, marketing, and operations teams.

  • Empower discipline leads (3D, video, static, localisation) to unblock work and maintain a steady production flow.
  • Demonstrate clear ownership and accountability, delivering creative assets on time, within budget, to a high level of quality
  • Coordinate specific IP teams with transversal teams to ensure resource balance and timely delivery.
  • Establish clear ownership for feedback loops, dependencies, and delivery readiness at every stage.

Turning Plans Into Action 

  • Transform campaign and creative strategies into actionable production plans.
  • Manage fast, structured intake of requests and ensure smooth transition from concept to delivery.
  • Maintain agility to adapt priorities while keeping high quality and competitiveness within budget.
  • Partner with Creative Leads and Campaign Managers to define project scope, complexity tiers, and delivery milestones.
  • Validate readiness for production, ensuring clarity in briefs, specs, and approvals before kickoff.

Forecasting & Capacity 

  • Identify future needs in upcoming IPs with unique artistic or technical challenges.
  • Lead forecasting across tools, talent, and budgets to ensure future scalability.
  • Align internal and external production resources strategically with marketing priorities.
  • Build visibility into capacity and workload to prevent bottlenecks and burnout.
  • Partner with operations and creative leadership to shape hiring, vendors, and training strategies.

Driving Workflow Excellence

  • Standardize and Scale proven workflows and best practices across IPs and teams.
  • Track capacity, timelines, and performance transparently through Wrike and dashboards.
  • Drive automation of low-value or repetitive tasks to free creative time.
  • Define clear "ready for production" criteria and ensure compliance at intake.
  • Continuously refine workflows through retrospectives and quarterly reviews.
  • Leverage AI to speed up production pipelines and improve asset management.
  • Create reports and dashboards that visualise production data clearly to drive decisions and insights.

Production & Operations 

  • Vendor management strategies and relationships to ensure cost efficiency, effective communication, and adherence to quality standards.
  • Oversee asset accessibility and storage across internal systems (e.g., Aprimo or equivalents).
  • Allocate production resources to high-impact strategic bets and new launches.
  • On-time and on-budget delivery rate.
  • Forecast and capacity planning accuracy.
  • Stakeholder satisfaction (Creative, Marketing, Operations).
  • Workflow compliance and efficiency gains.
  • Continuous improvement, adoption and impact.

What We're Looking For

  • 10+ years in creative production, marketing operations, or related project management roles, strong experience in Production agencies, advertising or creative services
  • Experience working closely with creative teams and creative projects
  • Strong organisation skills and attention to detail 
  • Passionate, committed and humble
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary creative production teams (internal and external).
  • Deep knowledge of creative workflows, asset pipelines, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Strong skills in forecasting, budgeting, and vendor management.
  • Proficiency with project management tools (Wrike, Jira, Asana).
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Strong ability to balance structure with agility in fast-paced environments.
  • Excellent communication skills in English
  • Spanish is  a plus
  • Video games or Mobile games experience is a plus

Leadership Competencies

  • Strategic and operational thinker with hands-on execution drive.
  • Team player, collaborative, empathetic leader who empowers others.
  • Data-driven decision-maker with a continuous improvement growth mindset.
  • Proactive risk manager and process innovator.
  • Build mentorship and cross-training opportunities within production clusters.

Hybrid, based 3 days a week in Scoplely's offices in Barcelona.

**Please submit all resumes/portfolios in English for review.

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world's most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time "MONOPOLY GO!" and "Pokémon GO," along with "Stumble Guys," "Star Trek™ Fleet Command," "MARVEL Strike Force," "WWE Champions," the Scrabble® franchise, "Yahtzee® With Buddies," and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry - bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team - including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely's position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like "MONOPOLY GO!" from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Niantic games businesses - Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and "Best Workplaces for Innovators," Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good - creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.

Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/

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