Yara Khoury
Producer, Product and Team Lead
San Francisco United States (California)
Employed
Available
History of releasing highly innovative and creative products thanks to a deep understanding of and passion for the creative process.
Large scale production management, with 8 years experience producing console/PC games that require 2+ years, and distributed teams of 40-400 people to make.
Refined relationship-building skills, and experience creating collaborative environments, and building highly performing teams.
Large scale production management, with 8 years experience producing console/PC games that require 2+ years, and distributed teams of 40-400 people to make.
Refined relationship-building skills, and experience creating collaborative environments, and building highly performing teams.
Head Of Games
Outpost Games
August 2016
to April 2018
United States - California
- Joined Outpost to help make games as much fun to watch as they are to play.
- Joined as Senior Producer, promoted rapidly to Head of Games after successfully leading the team to deliver an MVP that propelled SOS #3 on the Twitch charts, all driven by organic growth.
Producer
Electronic Arts - Visceral Games
June 2010
to August 2016
Full-time
Redwood City
United States - California
- Joined as Assistant Producer, promoted rapidly to Associate, then Producer. I focused on product execution, and owned bigger chunks of the games’ experience over time.
- Roadmap Planning
- Backlog Management
- Budget and P&L Management
- Team Culture and Leadership
- Cross Disciplinary Teams' Management
- Career Management and Coaching
- Recruiting and Hiring
- Production Planning and Management
- External Partners Relations and Negotiations
- Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
- Scheduling, Tracking and Reporting using Jira, Shotgun, Excel, Gsuite
- Action/adventure/RPGs: GTA series, Uncharted, Last of Us, Zelda, Horizon Dawn, Final Fantasy series, God of War 3, Bioshock series, Tomb Raider series,
- Shooters: Overwatch, Far Cry series, Battlefield series, PUBG, H1Z1, SOS
- Platformers: Mario series, Rayman series, Limbo, Inside, Ori and the Blind Forest, Braid, Portal
- Mobile: Hearthstone, Clash of Clans, Candy Crush, Alto, Monument Valley, Angry Birds
- Indie: Journey, Flower, Brothers, Stanley Parable, Gone Home, Dear Esther, What Remains of Edith Finch, Papers Please, Gorogoa, Her Story