Producer

At Lively, we pride ourselves on making games full of character. The world is fun and silly and sad and infuriating and banal and beautiful and ugly, and all of those things have a place in our games. Across the Electric Square group, 4 studios, many projects, 250 people (and studio dogs (and cats)), we offer you a comfortable and comforting studio culture that we hope can make you feel empowered and inspired.

Lively hunger for difference — we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, products, and community. Lively is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We provide a comprehensive benefits package and an award-winning environment to work in; we are not idle - we always strive to do better for our employees.

We are currently looking for a Producer to join our Leamington-based team - but we are fully supportive of remote working and happy to enable whatever blend of home and office best empowers you and your work.

A Producer at Lively:

• Assists a smaller team in the development of a high-quality product updates, on time and to budget.
• Drives product operational goals and facilitates communication, organisation, process, and accountability.
• Creates and manage development schedules and see them through their successful conclusion.
• Works with QA to enable a high-quality regular product delivery.
• Identifies and communicates any roadblocks and bottlenecks that may prevent the team from achieving their goals.
• Motivates and supports the team to ensure project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
• Assist the team to prepare regular milestone deliverables to submit to external management, including reports such as burnup, burndown and sprint velocity reports.
• Manages peer relationships with our publisher together with game director
• Help to ensure that new members are made welcome and are successfully integrated into the team.

Requirements

• 2-3 years’ experience in a production role (or equivalent)
• Proven production experience on game products
• Demonstrated ability to orchestrate work across multi-disciplinary teams
• Process driven, with flexibility to adapt as the needs of the team arises.
• Experience tracking complex projects and providing insight into how to deliver more effectively and mitigate risks.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and decision-making skills.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Drive to keep learning and inspiring
• Demonstrated ability to co-develop and execute delivery plans
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Calm and deliberate within a demanding environment.

Benefits

When you join Lively, you can expect to enjoy a unique culture. Whether it’s participating and relaxing with one of our wellness benefits or discussing the latest games over lunch cooked at one of Leamington Spa’s incredible eateries. The Studio knows that it’s the best people that make the best games and this is what Lively invests in. Below you will find all the benefits and perks you can enjoy as a Lively team member.

• Holidays - 25 days’ annual leave entitlement including studio closure over the Christmas period plus all UK bank holidays
• Bonus Anniversary Holidays - An additional day of annual leave for each year’s anniversary working at Lively up to a maximum of 30 days of annual leave entitlement.
• Generous Team Project Bonuses
• Company Pension Scheme – Employer contribution matching award winning pension scheme provided by NEST under the UK governments automatic enrolment scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance Scheme – Full private medical cover provided by AXA PPP Private Healthcare.
• Group Income Protection
• Health and Well-being Allowance – £50 per month to spend on your choice of a range of healthy activities, ranging from going to the gym, rock climbing, yoga and a lovely massage. It's on us!
• Group Life Insurance
• Private Dental Insurance Scheme – Full private dental cover is provided under our Dental plan company scheme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – Salary sacrifice cycle purchase scheme with tax savings through Evans Cycles.
• Tech Scheme - Over 5000 products available from to buy over 12 or 24 month payment terms, saving up to 12% on National Insurance.
• Free soft drinks to keep you refreshed throughout the day. Remember your sugar intake, though, folks!
• In studio, Monthly Friday Team Lunch – Monthly Friday lunches have become a way of life here at Lively. It’s a wonderful way to sit and enjoy a bit of food and drink together as a team outside of the day to day at the studio.
• Eye-care Vouchers – Free eye tests.
• WithU Fitness App - A remarkable fitness app that revolves around audio guidance, which is absolutely free for all Lively employees
• Financial Wellbeing Platform – Access to a fantastic financial wellbeing platform which is free to all Lively Employees.
• Train Travel Season Ticket Loan – Interest free company loan to spread the cost of an annual season ticket.
• Fast Growing Studio – We're only getting bigger, so there's plenty of room for career advancement.
• Industry Conferences Budget – Many of our employees benefit every year from attending conferences such as GDC in San Francisco, Siggraph, E3, Unite, Unreal Fest Europe and more.
• Free locally roasted Coffee & Speciality Teas
• Free Cereal Bar – Extensive granola, muesli and breakfast cereal selections.
• Extensive Video Game & Book Library – Borrow a game, a book or even a whole console!
• Free Awesome Swag – Amazingly designed Lively T-shirts and merch
• Dogs with Jobs – Lively is a dog friendly employer. Bring doggo into the studio to meet and hang out with the rest of the team any time!
• Exhibitions & Days Out – If there is an event happening of interest to us, we’ll happily spread the word, pick up the bill and see if any Electrons are up for going – we’re keen to get you everyone out seeing what’s going on.
• Project Wrap Parties, Cinema Nights & Team Social Events – We work hard together so it’s good to let off steam and spend some time together.

 

Role Information: EN

Studio: Lively

Location: Europe, United Kingdom, Leamington Spa

Service: Game Development

Employment Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full Time, Remote

 

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