Senior Producer.

Games Jobs Direct; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game development company in Greater London seeks a Senior Producer for the MetaHuman team. The role involves overseeing multiple cross-functional projects, managing schedules, and mentoring team members. Successful candidates will have over 5 years of experience in production and strong organizational skills. The company offers a rich benefits package, including medical insurance and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Pension

Private medical insurance

Health care cash plan

Dental insurance

Disability and life insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Mental well-being program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a production role with cross-functional teams.
• Self-starter with creative and methodical problem-solving abilities.
• Experience in remote/hybrid work environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive successful delivery of projects while managing complexity.
• Build and maintain development schedules and resource plans.
• Mentor junior production team members.

Skills

Project management tools

Game development pipelines

VFX pipelines

Problem-solving skills

Organizational skills

Tools

Jira

Shotgrid/Flow

Job description

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic's success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it's building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we're always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We're constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

PRODUCTION

What We Do

Whether it's driving a vision from start to finish or collaborating with teams to inspire and deliver projects of Epic quality, Epic's production teams take pride in consistently delivering world-class products and experiences.

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Senior Producer to join us on the MetaHuman team. Our global team supports the MetaHuman ecosystem, which includes MetaHuman products like MetaHuman Creator and MetaHuman Animator; support for licensees leveraging MetaHumans; and our integrations into Unreal Engine, Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and other Epic Games and partner products. In this position, you will be responsible for producing multiple cross-functional teams delivering a range of projects, including new MetaHuman feature sets, integrations with Epic and partner products, demos, marketing pieces, and more. You'll drive projects forward by working closely with project teams to build and update schedules, identify and mitigate risks, communicate updates to stakeholders, and regularly review project deliverables, all in service of achieving Epic-quality results.

In this role, you will

• Own the outcome - Proactively identify problems and propose solutions for your team before they become roadblocks. Partner with project leads to actively drive the successful delivery of projects, no matter the complexity or challenges
• Own the schedule - Partner with project and discipline leads to determine the people, time, and resources necessary to deliver projects on time and within budget. Build and maintain development (content and engineering) schedules that account for dependencies across multiple development streams and the "known unknowns" that occur over the course of a project
• Build and maintain development - (content and engineering) schedules that account for dependencies across multiple development streams and the "known unknowns" that occur over the course of a project
• Own process - Ensure relevant organizational practices are in place, leveraging existing ones where possible and suggesting new methods where needed to support project and team success
• Communicate - Maintain strong communication via multiple outlets including email, Slack, meetings, and schedules. Provide transparency on project status and risks to stakeholders in order to ensure they are regularly updated and properly informed of any potential impacts. Communicate frequently with the wider production team and project leads on projects, processes, and team roadmaps
• Be Flexible - You will be supporting multiple teams that are developing a wide range of technologies. You will need to switch contexts depending on the opportunities at hand
• Mentor - Facilitate the growth and development of more junior production team members. Ensure the team has the best organizational structure, processes, and practices that allow them to produce high-quality work efficiently and on time

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of experience working in a production role where you've managed cross-functional teams in the creation and delivery of complex projects
• Deep understanding of project management tools and practice, as well as game development and VFX pipelines. Familiarity with high-fidelity character pipelines is a plus
• Self-starter, you approach challenges creatively and methodically, seeing them through to the final resolution
• Ability to communicate with varying levels of stakeholders, within your team and throughout the company
• Ability to drive high velocity, high impact development cycles, balancing short-term needs and long-term vision
• Ability to adapt and be effective in new situations within a highly dynamic environment
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Experience in an environment where you had to exhibit amazing problem-solving skills daily, viewing each new problem as an opportunity for success
• Experience delivering projects within a remote / hybrid work environment and experience using Jira and Shotgrid / Flow is a plus
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

BEING A PART OF 3LATERAL TEAM

Our mission is to evolve through exploring abstract landscapes of art and science, exciting new technologies and, most importantly, through nurturing continuous multi-disciplinary communication and company values among our team members. Our talented and devoted individuals are all gathered around the same vision of creating and constantly improving technology that allows creation of high-fidelity replicas of human appearance and motion with special focus on real time and usable across all digital mediums.

In order to ensure a supportive and collaborative environment we :

• Enable professional long-term career development through continuous education and specialization
• Work with exciting new technologies and ambitious, industry changing, projects
• Attendance at the leading seminars and conferences from the industry
• Sustain personal goals through family-oriented work regulations
• Empower autonomy of thinking and acting
• Pleasant working atmosphere in our cozy offices with friendly and well-minded individuals
• Work from home model during pandemic

We are looking for new team members who can inspire us and are willing to give us a chance to inspire them, contribute to their ideas, skills and knowledge. With joint forces with our mother company Epic Games we are continually developing the state of the art in Unreal Engine as a leading team for creation of next generation virtual humans and creatures.

Note to Recruitment Agencies : Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.