Maria Ilenko Email & Phone Number

👋🏼 I’m an experienced Producer with 10 years in the industry, leading diverse teams and delivering exceptional products from multi-million selling AA titles to boutique mobile projects.
🎮 My work has spanned both one-off packaged products and live services that require everyday agile development to keep millions of users happy.
My leadership and communication skills allow me to seamlessly move between disciplines and share knowledge across teams. I’m dedicated to fostering an upbeat, cooperative, and respectful atmosphere within my team—like an office DJ, always finding the right tune to keep everyone dancing! I’m always seeking win-win solutions to keep the energy high and the results excellent.
🤝 In a team, I'm always eager to help whether by jumping in directly or teaching needed skills. Big believer in continuous learning and love soaking up wisdom from more experienced colleagues.
Embracing a growth mindset at work and beyond, I enrich my skills by studying various subjects, languages, and technologies. Careers are evolving journeys where exploring diverse interests to me leads to a fulfilling life and more meaningful contributions.
🌟 Core Values:
Integrity + Accountability | Respect + Teamwork | Continuous Improvement | Customer Dedication
Professional Achievements:* Managed 5 successful games* Led teams of 70+ talented designers, animators, developers, and QA specialists* Ensured games thrived for up to 6 years* Increased revenue by analysing player profiles, behaviour, and motivations* Planned and helped create 2000+ unique in-game updates* Established business partnerships and internal relationships, set business goals, and created and executed fully formed project plans
Specialties:* Vision setting with Creative Directors/Designers* Creative Design (GDD's, feature design, narrative design)* User Experience refinement (with UX/UI teams)* Project and Sprint Planning* Team Leadership* Defect Reporting & Problem Solving* Team Recruitment and Training* Communicating and Document Review
Tools:
Jira, Microsoft Project, Hansoft, Trello, Figma, Canva, PowerBI

🎨 Hobbies: Psychology, Machine Learning and Generated Content, Sports, Music, Geopolitics and Economics, Finance, Math and Physics, Fashion🌍 English, Deutsch, Русский, Українська, 中文, and un peu Français./GC EAD, CUAET eligible/