About YBVR/Xtadium
Xtadium is an app developed by YBVR in partnership with Meta’s Reality Labs and is exclusive to the Meta Quest platform. Xtadium is the ultimate social VR and MR sports experience that combines the excitement of live, on-demand, and pay-per-view access to sporting events. Xtadium allows the user to immerse themselves in a revolutionary VRAs sports experience by sitting in the front row from home.
Summary
As interactive producer for Xtadium, you will help to drive the evolution and growth of the Xtadium app to stay at the spearhead of interactive entertainment across VR and MR. You will work with the Xtadium partnership team and have strong interaction with YBVR product teams to articulate, define and ensure execution of product and operation milestones for the app.
Ideal candidates will be technically proficient with strong creative taste and vision, obsessed with creating compelling consumer experiences in the sports industry. They will be able to communicate effectively across business disciplines including business development, marketing, programming and product to successfully launch high profile initiatives and features.
You must be comfortable wearing multiple hats but will be chiefly relied on as a key creative executive for the team responsible for leading complex development projects and providing guidance and direction to Xtadium’s development team.
What will you do
- Collaborate with Meta producers and internal YBVR teams to develop, shepherd, and execute compelling interactive content experiences and features for the Xtadium platform
- Participate in articulating the vision and principles for Xtadium features and roadmap, with user experience always front of mind
- Develop timelines and milestones of product development and content projects, ensuring consistency between content / operational plans and product milestones
- Communicate timelines, milestones, risks, and other delivery aspects to all involved stakeholders in an effective way, adjusting the messaging to each relevance audience as to ensure all understand
- Provide leadership and guidance to Xtadium development and operations team to ensure plans, milestones and deliverables are effective and realistic and in continuous improvement
- Manage milestones and deliverables, addressing day-to-day issues to allow the team to deliver items on-time and with the highest possible quality
- Proactively identify gaps and risks in development execution, propose mitigation solutions, and escalate to leadership while executing against ambitious targets
- Provide detailed experiential and technical feedback on projects
- Test new mechanics in development to ensure they meet the quality standards set forth by internal stakeholders and Meta partners/producers
- Ultimately, you will be accountable for delivery on time and quality as planned and agreed with Meta and Sports Partners
You will be successful in this position if you
- Have 3 + years of industry experience on various platforms
- Preferred: As a producer or project manager in creative technology industries
- Have a track record of complex project management and remotely leading teams in overcoming project roadblocks
- Thrive in navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, technical work environment
- Can solve problems creatively and identify solutions that work for multiple stakeholders
- Have effective presentation, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the experience to communicate complex, sometimes abstract, concepts clearly and persuasively
- Know how to work with software lifecycle management, under methodologies such as waterfall, agile development, SCRUM or Kanban
- Feel comfortable holding technical discussions and grasping their implications
- Possess a sharp eye to detail, with the ability to effectively prioritize bugs and features based on their importance and urgency
- Demonstrate capacity to foster and preserve team spirit by exhibiting enthusiasm, positivity, and decisive leadership during challenging situations
- Enjoy watching sports and consuming content in a VR/XR headset
Bonus points if you also
- Have a background in sports/film/TV business, with industry relationships an extra bonus
- Understand sports industry, the current market, and cultural trends
- Have completed successful launches of experiences or apps in sport, technology, and VR
- Experience partnering with and managing third parties
- We value diversity, and proficiency in both English and Spanish is an asset in contributing to our multilingual team
- Hold a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent