[Hiring] Game Producer @Cheat Code

Role Description

An unannounced co-op horror title — think friendslop, but played completely straight. Small-studio Unreal Engine 5 production, small lobbies, big physical comedy. Full design details shared under NDA.

• Turn the GDD into an executable plan: milestones, sprint cadence, and a backlog that reflects reality
• Coordinate a distributed team of designers, artists, and programmers — kill blockers before they're a week old
• Run the dependency map: who needs which asset, spec, or build by when, so nobody discovers a wait after it's already started
• Organize recurring full-lobby playtests: build ready, lobby filled, feedback captured and converted into tickets
• Guard scope and budget: maintain the cut list, flag creep early, keep the current slice shippable
• Be the communication layer — status visible to everyone, decisions written down, and the founder's hours protected for design

Qualifications

• 3–5 years producing games, with at least one shipped title — multiplayer strongly preferred
• Small-team scars: you've been the only production discipline at sub-20 headcount, with no department behind you
• Fluency in the standard stack — Linear/Jira/Notion or equivalent, source-control basics (Perforce or Git), and enough Unreal literacy to know what's expensive to ask for
• Remote-first instincts: async by default, time zones treated as a scheduling constraint, not an excuse
• A record of cutting — you can name features you killed to hit a date, and defend every one

Nice to have

• Co-op, horror, or party-multiplayer shipping experience
• Experience running external contractors and art outsourcing rounds
• A Steam launch under your belt — store page, builds, release day

Structure

• Contract-to-hire: the first engagement takes the current slice from plan to playable milestone, then we both decide about ongoing work
• Fully remote, async-friendly.
• Shortlisted candidates get a paid planning exercise under NDA: the real backlog, one week, a milestone plan with a cut list

To apply

Send your application to [email protected], include:

• Your shipped titles and what you personally ran — team size, disciplines coordinated, and what you actually had authority over
• A short note: one milestone that was slipping — what you cut, what you changed, and what shipped
• No cover letter.