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Senior Producer
2 years ago
Do you love it when a plan comes together? Do you thrive on motivating a team toward shared goals to create and deliver amazing games? Are you an expert in planning to take a games development through the entire production cycle?
We are looking for someone like you to become our next Senior Producer and join our passionate and talented team, where we are building on the years of success that Rebellion has enjoyed.
What you’ll be doing:
As a Senior Producer at Rebellion you will play a key role in our team, leading the delivery and overseeing the day to day co-ordination of one of our games. You will work closely with team members across all disciplines areas to ensure successful delivery of the project. You will have a keen eye for detail and your risk management experience will aid you in your planning for smooth delivery and quality across all aspects of game production.
An understanding of the game’s development process is key to this role, so you will have considerable experience of the full project lifecycle in an internal production capacity as part of one or more game development teams.
Responsibilities
- Help define and scope core goals of the game to ensure that they are in accordance with all stakeholder requirements and that project scope is suitable for the budget and timescale of the project
- Use established internal documents to ensure that the production process and procedures are adhered to
- Create and maintain milestone deliverables and definitions to ensure maximum visibility on deliverables throughout the project lifecycle
- Review and approve milestones against agreed deliverables and dates according to studio standards of quality and performance
- Define project manpower requirements
- Monitor the day to day running of the project, identifying and solving problems
- Record and evaluate risks to the project including devising mitigation strategies.
- Coordinate efforts from multiple partners to ensure that all parties are communicating as expected and all deliverables are maintained and tracked to project completion
- Ensure that timely reporting and fixing of bugs and defects is maintained throughout the end phase of the project to completion
- Help coordinate the submission process and end phase for release
- Champion and present at internal review meetings and other company wide events or occasions
- Collate and document accurate and timely post-mortems for the project
- Collate weekly reports on the status of the project and deliver the reports to the CEO/CFO, specifically highlighting any risks or issues
Requirements
- 5+ years previous experience in a similar environment ideally in games production
- An understanding of all aspects of the development processes from a game's design phase through to its release
- Experience in managing large teams
- Able to demonstrate a successful track record in Project Management
- A proven track record in scheduling successful medium to large scale projects
Benefits
- Holiday: 26 holiday days annually, increasing with service to 31 days, plus national public holidays
- Private Medical Insurance: Our PMI scheme offers comprehensive cover to access private medical treatment, taking the stress and strain out of waiting for treatments via the NHS
- Pension Contribution: Tax efficient salary sacrifice contributory pension scheme where Rebellion matches 4% of salary, plus 10% of any contribution you make
- Healthcare Cash Plan: Cash-back on treatment costs, from flu jabs to chiropractors
- Dental & Vision: Cash-back on routine or emergency costs, free eye tests
- Income Protection: Financial help if unable to work due to illness or injury
- Critical Illness: Financial help if diagnosed with critical illness
- Life Assurance: Financial security for your loved ones at a difficult time
- EAP: Wellbeing hub, including confidential telephone support and counselling
- Active Rewards: Earn discounts and other perks for physical activity, from trainers to cinema tickets
- Gym Membership: Discounts to over 3,000 participating UK gyms, pools & fitness events
- Loans: Interest free, tax-free loans
- Relocation: Assistance with relocation planning and costs
- Cycling Cycle Scheme: Save around 30% of the cost of a new bike and equipment though salary sacrifice tax & NI savings, spread repayments over 12 months
- Discounts: 50% off most 2000 AD merchandise, plus Active Rewards and more through health schemes, from high street retail to holidays
- Referral Bonus: Up to £2k bonus for internal staff referrals that lead to hires
- Flexible Hours: Flexible start and finish times
- Great Friendly Culture: Friendly, creative and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and recognition of the importance of work-life balance (anti-crunch)
- Social & Charity Events: Annual Summer BBQ & Christmas Party, social groups such as photography and board games, charity events including football, go-karting and supporting Special Effect
- Digital Freebies: GDC Vault access, all Rebellion Steam titles, digital copies of 2000 AD and Rebellion Publishing comics, graphic novels and ebooks, physical game and film libraries
About Us:
Rebellion is a leading developer and publisher of games, and is also one of Europe’s biggest independent studios operating across books, comics, TV and film. Our Sniper Elite series is renowned for its authentic stealth and sniping gameplay with more than 35 million players worldwide. The Zombie Army franchise is a spine-chilling zombie shooter, and the recently released Evil Genius 2 is a satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind!
And those are just the projects you know about – there are loads more!
Diversity and Inclusion at Rebellion
We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We would like to invite all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neuro-diversity and beyond because we believe a representative team makes better games and provides a better working life.
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