Emile Liang

ProductionLeadership
Written By Taylor Nguyen

Lead Producer

Emile has over 23 years of experience working at Ubisoft, serving as Producer on multiple AAA titles such as Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time, Prince of Persia - The Two Thrones, Splinter Cell Conviction, Assassin’s Creed III, Far Cry 4, Far Cry Primal, and most recently, Far Cry 6.

Having worked at different studios of Ubisoft (Montreal, Casablanca, Singapore and Toronto), Emile has been building multicultural teams, often from scratch, and growing them to unleash their full potential and deliver the high quality needed for AAA games.

From small to massive and complex production teams, he has helped them navigate through production challenges while strengthening the management and direction backbones and reaching highly ambitious targets.

Emile is now focused on training the next generation of game development managers.

He is the founder of SkillTree.

Mentorship With Emile
 

Production and Management Coaching

This coaching includes 4 or 5 hours of one-on-one sessions, spanning through 3 months, custom-tailored to suit the mentee’s specific management needs. We will build a development plan together on targeted management areas in order to level up your skills and help achieve your goals or situation resolution.

Emile can cover various game production management topics such as building successful teams, planning and project organization, managing relationships, communication and motivation, career progression and more. His coaching can benefit Managers and Directors from all levels and is particularly useful to new leads or managers who need guidance while onboarding in their new roles.

The mentorship is designed to help managers break through plateaus, build confidence in their practice, increase managerial efficiency, unleash the production floor potential, develop presence and charisma and provide a clear path of continued growth and success.

Learning Focus

  • Leadership in action - Be exemplary and Manage with purpose

  • Setting values & Team culture

  • Building teams for long-term success (composition and organization)

  • New manager - Transition challenges, developing confidence.

  • Managing scale - From Micro to Macro

  • Roles, Workload, Stress, and Balance

  • Redundancy, growth, and delegation

  • Hiring and departures

  • Conflict prevention and resolutions

  • Working with technostructure & support teams

  • Building solid Lead-CoDev partnerships

  • Managing managers & directors

 

What Our Mentees Say

Testimonials
Frederic Djoenaedi, Production Manager | Ubisoft Montreal

“My mentorship with Skilltree was an eye opener in areas I felt like I already had an understanding in. Emile dug deep into topics that I didn't think you could go deeper in, all while being super interesting and very relevant. This course is perfect for all levels since there is just so much great content to learn from.”

Marlon Rizk, Production Manager | Ubisoft Toronto

“Emile is a fantastic mentor, he is an expert when it comes to all things production, and his vast knowledge and experiences can trigger meaningful and helpful discussions that you can take with you and insert not only in your career but also in life. I would highly recommend anyone in a production role to seek out a mentorship with Emile!”

Christian Carriere, Technical Director | Ubisoft Toronto

“Emile has been one of the most professional, passionate and supportive mentors. I now feel comfortable enough in my role that I hope to emulate the same level of coaching and care for my reports that I have been afforded so far.”

Christine Uy | Ubisoft Toronto

“Having Emile as a career coach is really valuable to me. In our monthly sessions I don't only learn about how to develop my career growth but also I learn more about myself - my strengths and weaknesses, which I can leverage or improve.”

Matt West, Creative Director | Prodigy Games

“It's no exaggeration at all to say that the time I spent learning from Emile was transformative. He taught me both the nuts and bolts of the various positions I held, but also that being a good leader could be identical to being a good person.”

 
Taylor Nguyen

Taylor Nguyen is a Squarespace web designer and SEO with 7 years of experience.

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