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External Development Director - SUMO SHEFFIELD

Sumo Digital
Sumo Sheffield
4 years ago
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We build ground-breaking games and content for some of the world’s biggest publishers including Microsoft, Sony, Apple and Sega. Sheffield is our largest studio and headquarters, situated just north-east of the city centre, where we’ve built and contributed to some of the world’s best-loved game franchises.

It’s an exciting time to be part of Sumo , winners of the Develop: Star Awards 2019 Best Studio ; big things are on the horizon and we want you to be part of our continued journey. Join us!

The role @ Sumo

As the External Development Director at Sumo Digital you will be the key program and execution owner for large scale distributed engagements. The primary function of your role is to execute the full project life-cycle for projects which are largely standalone from our internal studios.

As well as this you will act as an internal point of contact, escalation point and troubleshooter on large and multi-discipline co-developments with our internal studios.

You will need to be subject matter expert on facilitating communication best practice, remote working, cross site working and processes collaborating with heads of disciplines to make distributed development as effective and friction-less as possible.

Ultimately you will be responsible for the successful delivery of contracts to exacting creative and commercial standards, building long term relationships with effective vendors to allow us to be able to deploy friction-less and flexible capacity and services to maximise opportunities for Sumo Digital Limited.

In your new role your responsibilities will include:

To be successful you will:

What We Offer:

We offer a super benefits package including generous holidays and flexible working hours. Further perks include our legendary annual Sumo Big Day Out, plus epic Christmas parties, money on your birthday, on site free gym and free fruit for everyone! Our new, regular studio Game Jams are a highlight - staff spend a full day developing and pitching their own game ideas for possible development by Sumo.

Our environment is relaxed, friendly and built upon the basis of every team member having the opportunity to shine and have a realisable input into the games we create. We are a very happy ship with lots of incredibly nice people that partake in shared interest groups, lunchtime clubs, charity fundraising events and lots of socialising.

We are proud to be located in Sheffield, just off J34 of the M1 offering easy road and rail access from Leeds, Manchester and the Midlands. Sheffield itself enjoys wealth of facilities including world class sporting facilities, stunning theatres and galleries, the National Video Game Museum, shopping, restaurants and incredible parks and green spaces - all on the doorstep of the beautiful Peak District National Park. We love it here

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