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Technical Producer

Frontier is an established, market leading independent developer and publisher of videogames for PC and consoles. We have achieved serial successes across a wide variety of titles including Elite Dangerous , Planet Coaster , Jurassic World Evolution , Planet Zoo and F1 Manager . Founded in 1994, we are based in the world-leading technology cluster and historic city of Cambridge, England. With a growing team of over 800 talented people supporting our existing portfolio and ambitious future roadmap, along with our publishing label Frontier Foundry, we are passionate about creating innovative genre-leading games and authentic worlds for our communities of players.

As part of our continued growth, we have an opportunity for a Producer to join our Shared Technology Group (STG) to work on the Cobra Engine project.

Frontier has a proud history of developing game technology, building games with our in-house Cobra engine and forging creative solutions to a wide range of challenges. Our Shared Technology Group is at the center of the engine, tools and techniques that we develop. As part of the Shared Technology Team, your skills will supplement a fantastic group of talented engineers who are passionate about making great games and the technology that underpins those games. You will use your software development experience both to help drive Cobra into the future, and to empower game teams to get the most from the technology that we build.

Working with current and future game team direction, you will help organise the development, maintenance and support of Cobra along with complementary tools and services.

Developing great games pushes us to the cutting edge of technology and entertainment, and you will play an important role in directing our journey on exciting new frontiers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate the work of a couple of the STG work streams in collaboration with the team Leads, reporting to the Lead Producer
• Schedule and track work using Hansoft and JIRA
• Run morning stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint planning and retrospectives for your work streams
• Support multiple internal projects
• Identify and mitigate project risks, and proactively prevent/solve issues
• Champion and promote the STG processes and practices
• Work with the STG Production team to maintain the STG bug database and triage bugs across the STG
• Work with the STG Production team to maintain and triage the STG backlog
• Work with the Lead Producer to analyse, implement and champion improvements to working practice
• Help deliver products on time and to quality

About You:

• Previous experience in a similar role in games or another software development industry
• Good understanding of Agile and Waterfall processes
• Used to helping programmers to analyse requirements, break-down tasks and estimate work
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working with staff at all levels and across multiple departments
• Able to help and motivate developers to achieve the best possible results
• Skilled problem solver
• Excellent organisation and time management skills
• Familiar with bug and task tracking software

We offer the chance to work with talented and passionate people, developing and publishing sophisticated and enduring games in a creative and collaborative environment. We love what we do, and we work hard to provide outstanding experiences for our player communities. Frontier rewards this passion and determination by sharing in the company’s success and by supporting our teams to keep doing what they love.

Well-being is a big focus at Frontier and we are continually evolving how we can support our staff. We encourage a healthy work/life balance and host a range of well-being activities, initiatives and sessions to support both mental and physical health.

We welcome and encourage applications from qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.