Game Producer

Company Description

Fundamentally Games is reimagining publishing for living games. We focus on helping game developers with bringing their games to live and managing the live operations to scale their game. Our engagement-led strategy aims to scale games faster by getting more players, doing more things, more often and for longer.

**Job Description**:
Your role will be to manage the onboarding of developers, the set-up of LiveOps processes and to ensure the delivery of the agreed schedule of ongoing activities working with the community, publishing and design teams as well as the developer's team, pre launch and for the lifetime of the game.

The role is full time but with flexible hours, working from home in the UK. You must be able to come to London, usually once a quarter, and depending how far away you live, you may need to be available to stay overnight, and may also need to be able to attend client meetings or conferences internationally.

Your responsibilities will be varied, but will include:

- structuring and implementing live ops schedules
- ensuring resources are in place in advance of the scheduled activities
- managing a data focused test/release process
- identifying priorities and deliver accordingly
- planning ahead, problem solving, and undertaking risk assessments
- acting as escalation path to management and client
- ensuring delivery to high standards and to requirements, ensuring builds are ready for testing and publishing
- coordinating with development and internal teams
- communicating and provide reports - to clients and internal stakeholders
- managing or overseeing production of games pre live and in live
- delivering general game production activities, including task management, development processes, production methodologies, roadmap planning, critical path analysis, budgeting and scheduling

**Qualifications**:

- have knowledge and experience of game production within a live operations game on PC or mobile
- have experience working within a data-driven decision making environment, based on KPIs (as opposed to feature-driven decision making)
- be quick thinking, able to make decisions under pressure, and ‘spin multiple plates’, pro-actively ensuring that tasks are delivered
- always be thinking about problems before they happen, and processes to avoid them
- be a fast learner and not afraid to ask for help
- be happy to turn your hand to any task
- have exceptional attention to detail
- be able manage multiple very different tasks and projects at once
- be very organised
- have excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- have knowledge (and be very passionate) about games and the games industry
- enjoy creating spreadsheets and making lists

It would also be great if you have some of the following:

- experience working on projects on behalf of an external client
- experience working on multiple projects at once
- an interest in game design and the psychology of games
- a technical understanding of game development and/or backend game services
- have worked on at least one liveops game, in a game production role
- have at least 2 years experience in the games industry, in a game production role

Additional Information

We offer:

- A chance to grow your game producer skills
- Support with your personal career development
- Ability to work from home
- Very flexible hours
- Opportunity to be part of a growing team

Details:

- Salary: £30-37.5k per annum depending on experience
- Start date: ASAP
- Hours: Full time (approx. 37 hours per week)
- Location: Work from home
- ** Please note that you must be UK resident