Kishore Jagirdar

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 6 years of content creation experience.
Expert in game production and team management.
Strong military background enhancing leadership skills.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Gaming Industry Professional with strong leadership and content management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Game ProductionProject ManagementStory WritingContent ManagementContent StrategyMilitary Leadership

Other Skills

Video Game ProductionAgile MethodologiesBudgetingBusiness ReviewsInterpersonal SkillsSprint PlanningPeople ManagementSkilled Multi-taskerGamingExpert CommunicatorMetricsProduction ExperienceTeam BuildingEditingFacilitation

About

I’m presently working as a game producer on word games. Experienced in handling teams aligned on a vision, and creating a path for them to succeed. Handling expectations from stakeholders and managing execution is part of my day to day routine. I am a graduate from National Defence Academy and have an undying interest in fiction, history, aviation, gaming, crosswords, human behaviour and motorbikes. I also have more than 6+ years of experience in editing and creating quality content. Further, I have also worked intensively with tech startups on leveraging the content in a profitable manner through Organic Means & on social media platforms. My experience in the military and training at the academy gives me leadership skills to manage teams and keep them motivated for a cause. My understanding of social media platforms spans over a period of 7 years, and I understand all target groups right from the millennials to the higher-level decision-makers. I have worked on content in various genres right from short stories, screenplays, tech blogs, white papers, product descriptions, SEO rich content to quality web content. I worked on Crosswords with Playsimple games. I audited end to end Crosswords from grid creation, clue writing and exporting them into a suitable format apart from analysing their metrics to see player engagement and monetisation. Ethics, punctuality and honesty is something I’m proud of and hope to continue on the same path thanks to my military bearing.

Experience

14 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Playsimple games

5 roles

Game Producer

Promoted

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Presently working on scaling tow games from scratch with an enthusiastic team of young and senior folks. We iterate, brainstorm and ship features & MVPs in record time.
Constantly acting as a bridge between stakeholder and the team, ensuring communication is always crisp & clear. Primary goal is to keep everyone aligned on the same page, and keep the team environment friendly.

Video Game ProductionAgile MethodologiesGame ProductionBudgetingBusiness ReviewsInterpersonal Skills+1

Associate Game Producer

Mar 2024 – Aug 2024 · 5 mos

Handling a young and small team working on a numbers game, setting their timelines, deliverables and keeping them aligned on the same page while keeping it a “super-chill” environment for work.
Acting upon stakeholder’s requests and communicating it to the team, maintaining business goals and reiterating it to the creatively driven folks.

Game ProductionSprint PlanningPeople ManagementAgile MethodologiesProject Management

Senior Narrative Designer

Promoted

Feb 2022 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Driving content in a progression based crossword game. Syncing with product team to understand their requirements in terms of game metrics and translating the same as difficulty levels in the game.
End to end content processes, including copy-texts, notifications, adaptive difficulty.

Skilled Multi-taskerGamingGame ProductionStory WritingExpert CommunicatorInterpersonal Skills+5

Narrative Designer

Promoted

Aug 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Graduated onto a manager-editor role from a content writer. Mentioning and ramping up content writers and editing a crossword game with a huge audience.
Set up content churning SOPs, guidelines and streamlined cross functional communication. Documented each and every process, step and software functionalities used in content creation that has laid a strong foundation for new & existing writers.

Skilled Multi-taskerGamingStory WritingExpert CommunicatorContent ManagementInterpersonal Skills+5

Content Writer

Aug 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs

Designing and creating crosswords and word puzzles from scratch.
Setting up processes for timely deliveries, difficulty tuning and learning the minute details of churning content for games.

Content ManagementContent StrategyEditing

Career break

Travel

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 · 6 mos

I was on a hiatus travelling across India, visiting colleges and giving guest lectures, including two Tedx talks. It was a wonderful experience interacting with so many students and that has helped me have the right approach towards young co-workers.