Producer (Audio)

Playground Games is looking for a Producer (Audio) to join our talented Forza Horizon team here in Leamington Spa on a permanent basis.

About us:

As a premier first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and most of all fun. We are looking to expand our diverse team as we continue driving forward our BAFTA award-winning Forza Horizon franchise.

Playground Games is an equal opportunities studio and encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

About the role:

This Producer will work across multiple development teams to support and coordinate the production of Class-leading Audio, Dialogue, Sign Language, and Accessibility.

This role is based in our state-of-the-art studio in Leamington Spa, with a hybrid work model in place. Relocation assistance is available if required.

What you’ll do:

• Schedule and track the audio team’s work In Azure DevOps
• Create supporting production documentation such as roadmaps and mitigation plans
• Understand and communicate the status of audio work to the rest of the team
• Track upstream and downstream dependencies with an eye to meeting deadlines and mitigating delays
• Proactively remove roadblocks and blockers to audio work
• Manage voice over production from initial casting through to final implementation
• Coordinate field and studio recording of audio assets both in-house and through vendors
• Work with licensing and external partners on music acquisition
• Own and support budgetary aspects, including the creation of ‘statements of work’ for audio vendors
• Coordinate with QA to plan and unlock testing

What you’ll bring:

• Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
• Shipped at least one title in a Producer, Associate Producer role, or Audio manager role, ideally in AAA
• Experience of audio production pipelines, and their dependencies between other dev teams
• Ability to prioritise effectively, identify risk, meet deadlines, and manage complex tasks and workloads
• A passion for learning and evolving as a professional
• A genuine interest in game audio

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established, talented, collaborative, and inclusive team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.

If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com