Daryl Allison

Studio Director of Production @Ubisoft Philippines

Taguig, PH

Studio Vision & Growth Strategy:* Owning multi-year roadmap, aligning local OKRs with regional and global targets.* Growing team capabilities via Talent Management, and selecting inspiring and challenging projects.* Orchestrating studio priorities, leveraging achievements to unlock strategic objectives.Organizational Structure:* Defined clear and comprehensive areas of ownership between Producers and Leads.* Upgrading workflows to maximize the impact of our experts - contribution to all projects.* Evolving DevQA to provide deeper coverage and optimizing the effort of the dev team. Our operational model is being replicated to other studios.Biz Dev (Internal and External):* Coordinating with a network of key stakeholders (ex: Lead Producers, EPs, GMs, VPs).* Aligning global org to recognize our studio brand as the preferred choice for projects.* Building mutually beneficial relationships with vendors, expanding our bandwidth and enhancing our collective capabilities, allowing acceptance of more complex projects.Recruiting:* Upgraded the studio’s recruiting approach from reactive to based on vision and strategy.* Introduced “proactive backfilling” for critical, forecasted attrition, avoiding staff gap risks.Best Practices (Foundational and Innovative):* Rooting decision making and risk management in clearly defined standards.* Crafting a culture of continuous improvement and intelligently challenging the status quo.* Increasing predictability via a new approach to evaluating work scope.Projects:* AC Shadows* Unannounced