Weâre FuturLab, the award-winning game studio behind PowerWash Simulator, the Velocity series, Peaky Blinders Mastermind, and many more awesome games.Â
Weâre looking for a ProducerâŻto join the exciting world ofâŻPowerWash Simulator! Youâll be joining award-winning studio where youâll use your exceptional communication and organisational skills to manage the infrastructure which supports our growing relationships with outsource partners, from concept to delivery.Â
Youâll be the bridge between our development team and the external businesses we work alongside to ensure smooth communication and timely delivery. Youâll be responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing work produced by external teams, ensuring it meets quality, scope and schedule expectations. You will also be identifying risks, keeping development on track, liaising with marketing and business development.Â
Role & Responsibilities:Â
- Owner of the PowerWash Apple Arcade Production pipelineÂ
- Responsible for overseeing outsourcing content production for PowerWash 2
- Working alongside our internal team, co-dev partners and Apple to produce regular content drops to the Apple Store, ensuring contracts, SOWs and invoicing is organised in a timely manner
- Responsible for the roadmap, backlog and keeping documentation up to date
- Keep internal teams aligned, such as tech, QA and marketing
- Risk management and Stakeholder updates
- Store and release management for Apple StoreÂ
Requirements
- 3+ years in games production, with knowledge of the full game development cycle
- Excellent communication, organisational, documentation and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable using project management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Excel, Miro) and running daily scrums, sprint planning and retrospectives
- Proven experience working with outsourcers, or co-development partners
- History of managing external commercial relationships (publishers, vendors etc)
- Experience with cross-team collaboration, quality and risk management
- Understanding of contract structures, SOWs, milestoneâbased delivery and invoicing
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities simultaneously
- Understanding of project management and bug tracking software such as Jira
- Experience shipping one or more console, PC, or liveâservice titlesÂ
Desirable:Â
- Experience working across geographically distributed teams and time zones
- Knowledgeable with localisation processes and pipelines
- Previous experience in shipping games on the Apple AppStore
- Interest and appreciation of relaxing gamesÂ
Benefits
- Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
- Performance related bonus.
- Bi-annual salary reviews based on your performance.
- Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm (No weekends, No overtime, No Crunch!)
- Opportunity to work from home (UK only), out of our Brighton office, or hybrid.
- 27 days of paid annual leave, including 21 standard days, 3 days over the Christmas closure, 2 discretionary 'Duvet Days,' 1 day to celebrate your birthday, plus all 8 UK bank holidays and an extra day off for our very own FuturLab bank holiday!
- 5 paid training and 2 paid volunteer days per year to work on your personal development.
- Opportunities to attend and speak at gaming events/conferences.
- Free MS Game Pass or PS+ subscription
- Free game codes, game swag and merchandise.
- Bike2work scheme.
- Enhanced Maternity - 9 months full pay (statutory benefit topped up by FL)
- Paternity leave - 8 weeks full pay
- Enhanced Sick Pay.
- Enhanced Pension.
- Private Healthcare, includes dental and optical cover.
- Remote therapy service through Spill -8 x 50-minute virtual sessions over 6 months whenever you need them. Unlimited âask a therapistâ text questions.
- Eye tests for display work.
- Amazing offices with a great culture. E.g. Regular social activities, Free fresh fruit, Free iced treats in the Summer and Free locally roasted Coffee and Speciality Teas!
FuturLab foster an inclusive and welcoming culture, check out the Life at FuturLab page (www.futurlab.co.uk/life-at-futurlab) for reasons why youâd love working here!Â
If you have the skills, experience and passion for the role then please get in touch as weâd love to hear from you! Â
Equal Opportunities
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process as required, please add any adjustment requests to your application.
Candidates without a valid UK work Visa cannot be considered.