Benjamin Prenom Email & Phone Number

Netherlands

• Leadership
• Lead and manage a team of 80 operational staff, overseeing Art, Design, Engineering, QA, and Production departments.
• Provide mentorship to department directors, empowering them to manage teams effectively.
• Manage client relationships, ensuring satisfaction and serving as the primary point of contact throughout projects.
• Directly oversee hiring efforts, utilizing a combination of direct hires, contractors, and collaborations with co-development companies to assemble high-performing teams tailored to project specifications and financial.
• Collaborate with the executive team to translate company vision into actionable plans for short, mid, and long-term success.

Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

• Worked as Innovation Producer at BANDAI NAMCO European HQ, managing the production of for innovative projects at european level.
• Define the project scope of innovative projects from a creative, functional, technical and budgetary point of view
• Draft & present project-related documents to internal and external teams (briefs, functional and technical specifications, presentations, etc...)
• Build and maintain the release schedule: Define delivery date for each milestone (pre-prod, vertical slice, Alpha, Beta, Gold Master,...), update and share roadmap with all teams involved, support them to achieve our.
• Coordinate multiple teams across the world (Europe, US, Asia): Build strong relationship, make sure everyone is involved and committed, adapt communication using different channels, human centric, international.
• Day-to-day collaboration with many teams at all stage of production: Developers, QA, Localization, Certification, Marketing, Operations, Digital, Customer Support.

• Worked as Marketing Manager for mobile games at BANDAI NAMCO European HQ, responsible of developing, implementing and executing strategic global marketing plans for the whole mobile games portfolio.
• Build product marketing plans with all projects’ stakeholders as well as licensors.
• Coordinate and report clearly and regularly to the department head on the status of the marketing activities and upcoming global marketing plans and strategies.
• Manage marketing resources in the team: Determine marketing priorities in the team head and apply the corresponding management of time, budget and resources.
• Develop go-to-market and product lifecycle management strategy and execution from pre-launch, launch and post-launch.
• Lead market research efforts to uncover the viability of current and existing products/services: Deliver product marketing analysis and make asset recommendations to optimize performance through rapid, data driven.

Région De Lyon, France

• Worked as Product Owner for mobile games at BANDAI NAMCO European HQ, responsible of Production & Marketing at worldwide level.
• Responsible of P&L: Choose the best business partners, negotiate contracts, manage the product budget, monitor profit and loss, and permanently adjust our strategy to achieve the business expectations.
• Responsible of the whole product release and update cycle: high responsibilities, quality driven, release each update on time, oversee live operations, plan updates according to KPIs.
• Build the Milestone plan: Define objectives and content for each milestone, criteria for milestone approval, balance budget and payment accordingly, milestone review.
• Build and maintain the release schedule: Define delivery date for each milestone (pre-prod, vertical slice, Alpha, Beta, Gold Master,...), update and share schedule with all teams involved, support them to achieve our.
• Responsible of the marketing strategy: Benchmark the competition, build and maintain the marketing plan, make sure everyone is aligned on the strategy, acquire users through different channels, define target KPIs and.

Région De Lyon, France

• Worked as Producer for console games at BANDAI NAMCO European HQ, managing the video game production at european level.
• Build and maintain the release schedule: Define delivery date for each milestone (pre-prod, vertical slice, Alpha, Beta, Gold Master,...), update and share schedule with all teams involved, support them to achieve our.
• Coordinate multiple teams across the world (Europe, US, Asia): Build strong relationship, make sure everyone is involved and committed, adapt communication using different channels, human centric, international.
• Day-to-day collaboration with many teams: Developers, QA, Localization, Certification, Marketing, Operations, Digital, Customer Support.
• Responsible of age rating and submission (PEGI, USK, OFLC, FPB, …)

Région De Lyon, France

• Dishonored (X360/PS3/PC)DLC Dishonored: Dunwall City Trials (X360/PS3/PC)
• Support the production team by testing and debugging features at different production stages.
• Ensure the good quality of the game by testing, reporting and classifying severity of bugs depending on the production state
• Make sure the game is compliant with first party guidelines for a smooth submission.
• Establish testing plan and reporting process taking into account stakeholders’ needs.
• Manage internal/external playtests with different groups of users.

Lyon

• Dishonored (X360/PS3/PC)DLC Dishonored: Dunwall City Trials (X360/PS3/PC)
• Support the production team by testing and debugging features at different production stages.
• Ensure the good quality of the game by testing, reporting and classifying severity of bugs depending on the production state
• Make sure the game is compliant with first party guidelines for a smooth submission.
• Establish testing plan and reporting process taking into account stakeholders’ needs.
• Manage internal/external playtests with different groups of users.

Scrum Product Owner

Certificant ID: 000731962

European Bachelor, Game Design & Project Management, With Honors