Jade Kraus Email & Phone Number

* Managed a portfolio of 20+ titles, and was the POC for the Stadia Store on projects such as IARC integration and country expansion. Worked closely with internal and external partners to build and improve certification processes and systems for Stadia.* Guided clients to successful launch by providing operational expertise and responding to business and technical inquiries.* Scaled pricing and storefront submissions and reduced rework and errors by improving and implementing operational processes and policies.

San Francisco Bay Area

I managed the release of 35+ video games at a AAA publisher. As the leader of Release Management, I was accountable for facilitating all digital and physical product releases, as well as patches for every title in our catalog. I served as the main point of contact between Ubisoft and all first-party partners, handling initial game concept approval, storefront roadmap, and through to retail release. Risk assessment, data cataloging and management, and submitting for all ratings boards were a part of my duties for all titles.

San Francisco, California

I was responsible for supporting the production and devops teams at a mobile advertising company and ensuring they met crucial deadlines. Using Agile and SCRUM methods, I ran daily stand-ups, helped expedite needed resources, navigate roadblocks, and served as the communications master. In addition to running our build schedules, I helped manage our online traffic sources, and kept sales, marketing, and analytics teams on the same page.

I served as the administrator, and kept a product database of over 2,000 items updated. Key to this task was communicating with vendors while driving search through partner websites. I was responsible for optimizing search results, streamlining our checkout process, and curating metadata so it remained organized, accurate, and up-to-date. I also designed and created ads and marketing collateral, and made visual improvements to the site.

I was responsible for the monthly publishing of GDM, managing the schedule from conceptualization to the printed page. This included communicating with contributors to gather content, and collaborating with copy editors, artists, and freelancers to edit, lay out, and produce each issue. I coordinated ad placement, partnered with marketing to manage our social media strategy, and worked with IT on website updates. I was also the project manager for the 2011 Front Line Awards, overseeing it from start to finish.

I managed the recording of large-scale seminars in San Francisco, Austin, Germany, and Shanghai, and coordinated the scheduling of venue, sales, ops, and video capture teams over the course of the conferences. I organized all recorded content into GDCVault.com, a large database where users can view archived sessions from 2001 to present. Enhanced, updated, and maintained this website, dealing with operational/user issues and daily maintenance.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsibilities included managing/maintaining a database of over 10,000 games, including cropping and uploading art assets, inputting metadata, and writing descriptions. Published daily multimedia for both audio and video podcasts, including scheduling, building show "hub" web pages, submitting content to iTunes, and building RSS feeds. Produced daily feature articles, working with our features editor and art team, scheduling content for publication, working within deadlines, coding each article in HTML and CSS, and creating new web page designs when appropriate. Created, edited, cropped, uploaded, and published art assets for used for in-house marketing purposes. Maintained two weekly email newsletters using YesMail. Co-created and maintained "For the Love of Game," a blog about the culture of videogame fans and co-created and co-hosted the at1UP Podcast, which has attracted over 12,000 subscribers.