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These games jobs were last updated on 03/03/10. If you are interested in any of them please quote the ref no(s) and send your CV to Julien.

Our client based in Quebec, Canada, is a progressive gaming company with a fantastic reputation in the industry which rewards its employees with a great salary and excellent benefits including relocation package for those candidates living abroad or away from Quebec City. The Producers will lead the development of new title from concept to release. You will be charged with managing cross-functional teams to move their product through each stage of development.

The position relies heavily on interpersonal and organizational skills, along with an ability to manage, motivate and provide direction for large, diverse teams.

Given the demands of the job and the nature of the content they will be working with, you must be passionate about video games in a wide variety of genres. You are expected to have and maintain a deep knowledge of industry trends and opportunities.

Experience Requirements

· 3+ years of videogame production experience (Producer level)
· 3+ years leading cross-functional teams
· Proven management experience including: employee selection, employee development, performance management, conflict resolution, team facilitation, motivation and recognition, budgeting, project planning and organizational skills
· Track record of project execution: completing and shipping quality games on time and on budget
· Excellent written and oral communication skills
· Experience with narrative formats (fiction, film, television, drama, sketch comedy) is a plus
· Prior design experience a plus
· Experience with Scrum/Agile development a plus.

Canada $DOE + excellent benefits

Contact: Donna Ref: 31900 03/03/10

This central UK games company develops and publishes games for Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and PCs, as well as multiplayer and world games for internet play. They have been in existence for years and have had many No 1 hits across Europe. They have been voted Publisher of the Year by gaming magazines.
This role is to be a senior member of the programming team, working using leading edge technology and tools.

Main duties and responsibilities:
- To ensure multiple programming teams working on multiple projects are working efficiently, collaborating where suitable and developing in a cross-project, cross-platform, re-useable way
- Responsibility for evaluation of all tools, middleware, game engines, source code management systems and the like available for efficient and effective software development
- Lead the division in the deployment of all middleware (internal and external), tools and processes
- Support the programming teams and other game development staff in the use of tools , middleware and processes
- Run technical feasibility studies for new products and work with the design team to ensure specified systems can be implemented efficiently and with minimum risk
- Direct the programming teams through the prototype stage of development of cutting edge products
- To sign off all Technical Design Documents, ensuring the technical integrity of all software developments
- To hold periodic technical reviews, to ensure progress is in line with the TDD, or that the changes made are viable alternatives
- Chair the Lead Programmers group, ensuring that all actions are progressed, and that knowledge sharing in technology is promoted
- Act as Technical Manager to all Lead Programmers, ensuring that best practices are rolled out promptly and as effectively as is reasonably practicable, and that there is a succession plan in place for each team in terms of senior programming staff
- Own the future vision for technologies in the Online division and identify potential USPs and competitive advantages in emergent technologies
- Act as the senior technical point of contact for third parties.

Midlands £GOOD + benefits

Contact: Donna Ref: 31884 26/02/10

This Northern company has been around for years, and is headed by some of the biggest names in the games industry. They are currently one of the most successful independent developers in Europe, selling more PS2 software units than most other developers. They are now in a really exciting period of growth and are looking for serious talent to push the boundaries of next gen technology. Our client is looking for a exceptional Business Assistant to work very closely with the Senior Studio Director to provide the him with high calibre business and executive support. To assist the director in delivering on the portfolio of responsibilities.

The right candidate will work in partnership with the Senior Studio Director’s Personal Assistant, senior management team and other managers.

Job responsibilities
- Liaise with senior level people, both within and outside the organisation and communicate with third parties where appropriate
- Support strategic and senior level meetings with data and evidence to improve the quality of discussions and decisions
- Prepare for all management level meetings and service them
- Follow up on actions after meetings and enable free flow of information
- Prepare and produce briefing papers, reports, presentations
- Research and project support, including the preparation of briefing material and presentations
- Review, analyse and summarise reports and documents

Candidates will:
- Have a First degree (minimum 2:1); Second degree desirable, ideally MBA
- Be well organised with great attention to detail
- Be able to prioritise and meet deadlines where demands change constantly
- Maintain the highest level of confidentiality and integrity within all relationships
- Be focused and dedicated to role and tasks in hand
- Be capable of working with people at all levels
- Have ability to contribute to strategic discussions
- Have experience of business planning, business modelling and similar skills
- Be able to handle multiple tasks and work flexibly
- Have strong communication (written and oral) - and presentation skills
- Have excellent problem solving abilities and well-structured strategic thinking
- Have an aptitude for continuous development and self improvement
- Have prior experience at support or executive level.

North West £DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31880 25/02/10

The UK head office of one of Europe's leading games developers. Our client is looking for an experienced product manager to ensure successful and high quality delivery of products in all their development studios.

Main responsiblities:
- monitoring production across all group projects and reporting progress to the executive team;
- tracking compliance with contracts and delivering successful change control;
- engaging with studio producers and other key individuals;
- monitoring and mitigating delivery risks; comparisons with external competing products;
- implementing quality improvement measures - eg focus reviews.

Essential skills and experience:
- excellent communication;
- previous delivery of multiple console products;
- co-ordination and management of product delivery and strong Excel.

Desirable;
- exposure to legal/contractual issues;
- direct management of multi-discipline development teams;
- MS Project and Hansoft.

Guildford £GOOD

Contact: Donna Ref: 31851

We are working with Sony Computer Entertainment's world class development studio in London. It has unrivalled development facilities and offers a creative and stimulating environment coupled with access to the best London has to offer from their Soho office.
Responsibilities:
- The timely delivery of all titles within a single franchise developed by the group, in accordance with the quality standards set by the Game Director and timescales set by the Production Manager
- Defining and keeping track of all schedules for both internal and external teams
- Management of internal and external teams ensuring all risks are identified and mitigated against
- Promoting progress visibility within the team and upwards to the project stakeholders
- Defining, evangelising and enforcing best practice as set by the Production Manager

Skills and Experience Required
- Has an excellent understanding of the game development process and a solid knowledge of the techniques of design, art, programming, audio/video, and QA.
- Must have worked on at least three finished titles (or equivalent experience in the games industry or a related field) in a production/ project management capacity.
- Experience in managing a team of producers or project managers would be desirable
- Able to work across multiple disciplines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Practitioner in Scrum or equivalent methodologies is beneficial
- Experience working with internal and external teams.

London £Good + excellent benefits

Contact: Donna Ref: 31826

This central UK games company develops and publishes games for Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and PCs, as well as multiplayer and world games for internet play. They have been in existence for years and have had many No 1 hits across Europe. They have been voted Publisher of the Year by gaming magazines. Please get in touch to find out more.

Midlands £DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31841

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Technical Producer to join Sony's team for PLAYSTATION Home.
The job will involve assisting the production team with the planning, scheduling and day to day management of the code teams, both for the Home Client and the HDK tools.

The ideal candidate should have experience in project tracking and scheduling, ideally on a complex development project.
They should be extremely well organised with the flexibility to work within a rapidly changing development environment.
Knowledge of programming languages, games and tools development is a must.
This position offers a great opportunity within a high profile SCE project.

West End £DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31840

Making games since 2000, this Amsterdam studio has a proven reputation for creating original AAA titles for high profile publishers. Now working exclusively with an industry leader, on their current and next gen technologies and with a major franchise in the pipeline, they are looking to recruit creative and talented individuals to join their determined and experienced multi-disciplinary game teams. Although the studio employs staff from over a dozen different countries, English is the common working language.
As a VFX/Tech Art producer, you'll be responsible for organizing, scheduling and coordinating the duties of the Visual FX and Tech Art team.
You'll direct and motivate your team members to make sure that the goals and deliverables are met, while supporting the production team and creative directors with assigned work. You will also collaborate with department leads to determine resource requirements and timelines necessary to see the project through to completion.

Requirements:
- You have 2+ years of experience producing or managing creative personnel in the game or film industries
- Your self-direction and follow-up skills are second-to-none
- You have the ability to anticipate production issues and counteract them if required
- You are able to manage changes to the project scope mid-production while minimizing the impact on your team
- You're articulate, have strong written and verbal communication skills and a good command of the English language.
- You are familiar with software used in the creation of 3D content

Extra:
- You're passionate about gaming
- You have knowledge of game development pipelines and potential bottlenecks/risks
- You have a keen knowledge of how different disciplines interact to create AAA games
- You have direct experience with SCRUM/Agile management methods.

The Netherlands £GOOD

Contact: Donna Ref: 31808

This independent game development studio has a passionate talent for creating small, fun and addictive games that appeal to the casual game player. They don't believe casual gaming is limited to a specific game genre or collection of genres. Through a combination of simple controls, clear objectives and vibrant visual style games can be created that have mass market appeal using a variety of themes, contexts and game-play mechanics. Our client is looking for a Studio Manager to run their internal development teams, with a strong production background in mobile and casual games. Who will play a key role in successful growth of the company on international market.

Responsibilities
·Full responsibility for the development cycle of all internal titles, including concept pitch, pre-production, production, quality assurance, certification, release, and localization.
·Management of internal teams to define milestones and schedules and validate deliverables.
·Manage client relationships, providing clear, concise and regular communication of development progress and rapid solutions to current or predicted issues.
·Build strong development and support teams enabling the successful delivery of games on time, on budget and to the highest quality standards.
·Improve the effectiveness of current development processes whilst implementing required changes/additions.
·Lead regular employee appraisal, review and objective setting.

Skills
·Excellent project management and pitch communication skills, preferably gained in a blue-chip, quality-driven environment or within the Games Industry, and be able to apply that knowledge in a results driven, creative environment.
·Specific experience with major project management packages such as MS Project and Excel is a must, and any knowledge of others will be a plus.
·A great motivator, who can inspire and lead others through example whilst maintaining a positive and energetic approach to all aspects of the role.
Experience
·Candidates will ideally have at least 4 years of experience in the games industry with at least 3 years in a senior project management, producer or studio head position.
·Produced at least 2 large scale console titles to delivery or a number of smaller projects.

Scotland £GOOD

Contact: Donna Ref: 31801

This is the R and D department of a top developer in the UK. Their mission is to provide technology to support the games developers. Their ideas will ultimately be used to take games into another dimension. Right now we seek a project manager form a programming background. The R and department's output, in the form of toolkits are written in C/C++ and also include web development and s/w tools.

If you are well versed in project management tools and offerings such as Hansoft, and have experience in relevant software development projects (games or similar), then we would love to hear from you.

South - home counties £high

Contact: Julien Ref: 31790

Our client is one of the leading and most innovative developers in the UK, if not the world. The games are consistently well acclaimed and lead through innovation and lateral thinking. They seek talented people of all different shapes and sizes and by so doing, bring new ideas and forms of entertainment into their products. In short, if you have talent, you will find your niche here.

We now seek management or management potential from the programming community. Rewards are good - both financially and creatively. Please apply, in confidence, to Julien Hofer.

London circa £55k

Contact: Julien Ref: 31789

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's Online Technology Group provides a full range of services (technical support, software development and consultancy) that supports the development of PlayStation products by both SCEE and its third party partners throughout Europe and Australasia. They are the resident experts at SCEE when a technical issue arises relating to any of the PlayStation platforms. The group is unique in reporting directly into both SCEE’s headquarters in London, and SCEI’s R&D group based in Tokyo. Our client is seeking a project manager to ensure projects are properly planned and resourced, risks assessed and mitigated, and stakeholders aware of project progress, business impact and deadlines. The candidate should be able to demonstrate any relevant experience in facilitating gaming/website/online development, process reviews and testing.

The main responsibilities of the role are as follows:
- Project manage the entire life cycle of network applications (Java/C++)
- Create and maintain project plans with complex project dependencies
- Ensure effective communication and good relationships are maintained with game teams and global business units (e.g. Hosting, Operations, Marketing, and QA). This could require occasional travel to games studios within the UK and Europe.
- Facilitate team information and work flow, typically between technical/product development and non-technical/publishing units of the company, in regular processes or on special projects
- Identify risks and implement control mechanisms to ensure successful project delivery

The candidate must have these qualities or experiences:
- Understanding of technical aspects of client-server web applications
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, including PMI and Agile
- Excellent analytical skills with great attention to detail
- Knowledge of IT development/support processes:
o Requirements gathering
o Effort estimation and planning
o Source control and release management
o Issue tracking and prioritisation
- Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Significant stakeholder management experience
- Risk Management understanding with the ability to identify, analyse, prioritise, mitigate and communicate project risks
- Experience conducting post-mortems and compiling historical information
- Knowledge of online gaming and social networking technologies.

London DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31788

This fun-filled games company located in the North-West of England has been around for fifteen years, although they still posses the energy and vibrancy of a brand new company. With 160+ staff working out of a custom-built development studio, they are now simultaneously developing several next-gen projects across various platforms. Our client is looking for a Producer/ Development Manager for an action title based on an established licence, currently in development for next gen consoles.

Responsibilities:
- Game delivered on schedule without impacting quality
- Direct management of a team of Coders, Artists and Designers who are focused on delivering a AAA title for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC
- Coordinating team communications and scheduling with shared teams
- Work closely with the established management Team
- Visible and up to date planning & scheduling
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with external parties

Job requirements:
- Good people skills
- To be able to focus on the bigger picture
- Ability to Work with HR to establish recruitment needs
- Must have 2 or more years experience and have shipped one high quality title.


Desired:
- Enthusiasm; a real love for the work.
- Talent
- Commitment to both the product and the team.

North West £DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31690

We are working with Sony Computer Entertainment's world class development studio in London. It has unrivalled development facilities and offers a creative and stimulating environment coupled with access to the best London has to offer from their Soho office. We are looking for a highly experienced Producer to join the development team of one of their most successful products.

Role Overview:
- Responsible for the timely delivery of all titles developed by the franchise (internal and external), in accordance with the quality standards set by the Game Director and Discipline Leads, while continuously improving the work-life balance of the team
- Defining, evangelising and enforcing a best practice production methodology for the franchise

Key Skills/Experience:
- Successfully shipped at least 2 projects from inception to completion as a producer
- Proven track record of managing 20+ teams
- Outsourcing experience
- PS3 and/or social gaming would be an advantage
- Project management and organisational skills required

Key areas of responsibility:
- Responsible for the delivery of all titles developed by the franchise, internally, externally or via licensing, to the quality set by the Game Director and the time and cost standards set by the Production Manager
- Resolve time-cost-quality conflicts escalated by Discipline Leads within the franchise
- Supervise post-mortem execution at the end of each title, and ensure approved issues are turned into action points
- Define a schedule and budget and track the teams progress against it, identify critical paths, key risks, change and slippage and put solutions in place to mitigate them
- Define and enforce production processes as set by the Production Manager to ensure efficiency, focus and strong morale
- Balance production considerations with quality and creativity in decision-making
- Carry out secondary line management responsibilities for the Discipline Leads including personal development, training and appraising
- Point-of-contact for anything relating to the development and delivery of the title
- Maintain effective communication with the entire team, at all levels.

London £Good + excellent benefits

Contact: Donna Ref: 31688

Datascope is offering an exclusive opportunity at one of the world’s leading online gaming companies. This is a young, fast-growing company with an international presence and a fun, dynamic culture. They are dedicated to creating exciting social connected experiences for casual gamers with in-house games or by working with the best developers. They are looking for a Game Studio Manager to manage the production of technical and functional game innovations in the in-house studio.

Responsibilities will include:
* Build the technical foundations to enable games to function on different platforms
* Develop new social gaming features and roll out to in-house and external developers
* Manage and develop the studio team of 8 programmers and artists
* Develop and manage a robust API for use by internal and external developers.

Skills/experience required:
* 3+ years experience managing game production teams
* Experience with Flash/server interfaces and protocols
* Creating APIs (desirable)
* Degree in a relevant technical field
* Good English communication skills.

Europe 100k euros plus

Contact: Julien Ref: 31531

This publisher / developer has new technology (such as live video) to add further dimensions to the games industry's number one games console on the market today. The combination of gameplay and social networking offers an intoxicating user experience. We are seeking an experienced Executive Producer who will be responsible for bringing a AAA product to market for this platform, from concept all the way to daily operations after launch. And what makes this job even more exciting is the additional focus on the European audience.

You will work with the development teams to create designs, schedule and track development, ensuring that milestones are met and that the quality is high.

After launch, the Executive Producer will be responsible for monitoring feedback from customers and ensure that as a result the experience is continuously improved. You will manage the relationships with internal and external resources and ensure that customer experience on the platform is superlative and becomes a benchmark for years to come.

Please email, in confidence to julien@datascope.co.uk.

London £80-100k

Contact: Julien Ref: 31530

This Northern company has been around for almost fifteen years, and has produced hundreds of games during its lifetime. While they have produced games for every major platform, the company is currently concentrating on innovative racing games for consoles. Our client is currently lookingfor a Senior Online Producer. In addition to overseeing and managing production, you will need to ensure the games are at their highest quality and delivered on schedule.

Other responsibilities include:
- Serving as the main point of contact with the client and other project sponsors
- Managing and motivating the whole team effectively
- Comparing/contrasting new technologies, tools, and creative or technical approaches that are available in the industry

Skills required:
- online experience
- racing games experience
- Strong communication and team management abilities
- Ability to create and effectively use diagrams and texts to accurately specify product design
- Ability to evaluate and give constructive feedback
- Knowledge of different platforms and technologies relevant to creative and technical development
- Awareness of the requirements of third party license holders.

North East £DOE

Contact: Donna Ref: 31481