Julia Rizzoli Email & Phone Number

State Of São Paulo, Brazil

Dublin, Condado De Dublin, Irlanda

Worked on projects: Lego Duplo World, Lego Duplo Marvel, Thomas & Friends, and Sesame Mecha Builders.- Lego Duplo World: Managing live ops, optimizing content updates and player engagement.- Lego Duplo Marvel: Improving production timelines by establishing efficient processes and bringing the project back on track.- Thomas & Friends / Sesame Mecha Builders: Leading initial development cycles and releases; currently overseeing live operations and updates.Key Responsibilities:- Ensuring adherence to the project roadmap, adjusting strategies to meet milestones and deadlines.- Reviewing game proposals with the team, ensuring feasibility and alignment with project goals.- Participating in partner meetings (Lego, Marvel, Mattel, and Sesame), facilitating approvals and maintaining clear communication.- Leading design sessions using Miro, translating Product Owners’ (POs) ideas into user stories and actionable tasks.- Playing a key role in refining the company’s agile mindset, leading all agile ceremonies and fostering continuous improvement.- Assisting in implementing Crowdin, streamlining the localization process for over 10 languages.- Conducting sprint reviews and monitoring progress in Jira, ensuring on-time delivery and addressing setbacks promptly.- Building a positive team culture by fostering open communication, providing mentorship, and ensuring team members feel valued and supported.- Serving as a bridge between the POs and the team, ensuring clear communication and team representation.- Cooperating with the commercial team to implement initiatives that enhance game performance and user engagement.- Collaborating with the Product Strategy Group to ensure the delivery of the best and most engaging product for kids.- Generating performance reports for partners using Excel, Firebase, and Google Analytics, providing insights into user engagement and retention.

São Paulo, Brazil

- As the producer of all games for Globo’s new project, I was responsible for:- Developing and defining the strategic direction for game development, ensuring alignment with project goals.- Building and implementing a roadmap to deliver 16 games within a 7-month timeline.- Sourcing and negotiating with potential partners to optimize pricing, scope, and efficiency.- Proposing and refining game concepts, mechanics, themes, and features.Managing 8 outsourcing studios, distributing projects based on expertise and ensuring deadlines and quality standards are met.- Acting as a liaison between outsourcing studios, the tech team, and the business team.Reporting project statuses to stakeholders and gathering feedback to prioritize and organize into actionable tasks.- Overseeing all aspects of game development, including art, animation, UX/UI, gameplay, and audio, providing feedback and ensuring high standards.- Streamlining the team’s workflow, enhancing daily productivity.- Estimating investment forecasts for the financial department and managing budget compliance.- Handling contracts, administering invoices, and ensuring a smooth payment process.

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

- Working on the development of Fanatee’s Word Lanes, my responsibilities included:- Leading concept meetings to design the game’s roadmap, driving production from prototype to release.- Breaking down features into stories and tasks, prioritizing and organizing activities into agile sprints.Coordinating and overseeing assignments for game designers, artists, and programmers using development tools like Monday, Azure, and Confluence.- Collaborating with the Community team to integrate user feedback into game updates.Supervising sprints to anticipate challenges and quickly resolve issues, keeping projects on schedule.- Managing contracts to ensure adherence to budgets and timelines.- Overseeing app store updates and managing the entire release process for new versions.- Monitoring game performance and contributing to product management discussions.- Managing localization efforts, ensuring high-quality translations in 7 languages.From September 2019 to May 2020, while working as Word Lanes' game producer, I also managed Rule The Word's content - a multiplayer word game. I was responsible for tracking and editing all UK/US localized words to make sure the game accepts both spellings, as well as producing and, with the help of our American partner and British freelancers, reviewing all texts for the game's interface and app stores communication.

São Paulo

As part of the Presents team, I was responsible for: - Analysis of sell in and sell out results using internal data and Kantar Worldpanel tool;- Management of budget and expenses;- Development communication strategy for gift bundles;- Briefings for online communication and Natura's catalogue;- Final reviews for online communication;- Development of gift bundles through analysis of portfolio, attractiveness, margin and revenue to supply stock and production gaps;- Natura's magazine final text and image reviews for gift bundles and packing;- Early coordination of the production of a new package strategy.

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

During my internship, I assisted the Strategic Planning team with the following tasks:- Estimations of bags, samples, and magazines sales by region and distribution centre;- Planning of overstock sales within the reseller website, as well as communication of promotions;- Analysis of overstock sales results and user experience within the website through the Google Analytics tool.

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

At Rede Globo, I had the opportunity to experience a rotational internship. While working at the company I was part of different teams and assisted with the following activities:- Production of market reports;- Media planning and business proposals for advertisers;- Data analysis and audience reports using Kantar IBOPE Media tool;- After-sales analysis and strategy.

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

On my first internship and first time at Fanatee, I assisted a small social media team contact YouTubers, write posts, and answer the community's inquiries and feedbacks. However, once the game CodyCross displayed the first early signs of becoming a hit, I was relocated to manage the content creation of the word game. In 2020, CodyCross hit 100 million downloads. Here is the full list of my responsibilities as an intern at Fanatee:- Selection and recruitment of digital influencers;- Customer service: responsible for answering national and international e-mails and comments on social media;- Creation of posts for social media pages;- Production of English and Portuguese content for the word game Stop;- Management of a team of content creation freelancers;- English to Portuguese translations and localisation of content;- Portuguese and English content review;- Content creation management;- Product strategies.