Senior Producer (Design)

Sports Interactive (SI); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Gym Membership

Travel Insurance

Mental health support

On-site therapist services

Free SEGA game access

Contributory Pension Scheme

Job summary

Sports Interactive is seeking a Senior Design Producer to elevate design delivery across Football Manager. You will own day-to-day execution, mentor junior producers, and partner with Design and Production leadership to ensure timely, high-quality output across UIUX, narrative, and game design teams.

The role is hybrid, based at Here East in London, requiring 2–3 days in-studio. You will drive planning, risk management, and progress tracking within an ambitious studio aiming to deliver yearly

Qualifications

• Proven experience in senior game production with accountability for delivery.
• Deadline-driven environment in a creative setting.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Assertive accountability for UIUX, narrative, and game design outputs across features.
• Operate with urgency within an annual release cadence.
• Position design to deliver ahead of the next iteration; avoid drift.
• Translate creative vision into plans, timelines, and milestones with Design Leads.
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
• Plan to safeguard design quality and ensure production readiness.
• Lead build reviews and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Improve design production processes for clarity and scalability.
• Provide clear updates on progress, risks, and decisions.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment across creative, technical, and production teams.

Skills

Senior design producer

Delivery ownership

Stakeholder management

Organization

Communication

Experience with large-scale sims

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Founded in 1994, Sports Interactive became a wholly owned subsidiary of SEGA Europe in 2006. Based at the Here East technology hub in Stratford, East London, the SI team continues to expand as we bring our titles to an ever-growing audience across an increasing variety of platforms.

To support our growth, we welcome the opportunity to connect with passionate people with the drive to match our ambitions and initiative to realise your individual potential.

Job Title: Senior Producer (Design)

Team: Design

Working Model: Hybrid 2-3 days per week in Studio

Location: Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, E15 2GW

Position Overview

We are hiring a Senior Design Producer to elevate and accelerate design delivery across Football Manager.

This role exists to bring assertive, pro-active ownership to the day-to-day execution of work across our UIUX, narrative, and game design teams (consisting of ~20 designers across multiple features & initiatives).

Following two challenging cycles we are looking for a highly organised, experienced producer who can ensure design work is clearly planned, communicated, and delivered predictably without compromising creative quality.

On an annual release cadence, it is imperative that design lead the way early and that work is not allowed to drift or delay development. You will be accountable for ensuring design work is delivered at pace and is ready to enter production. You will ensure that dependencies and risks are surfaced early, and progress tracked with clarity and intent.

Whilst you will primarily take ownership of day-to-day execution, as a senior member of the production group you will also help shape process, mentor producers, and act as a trusted partner to design and production leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Assertive accountability for delivery of UIUX, narrative, and game design output across multiple features and initiatives
• Operate with urgency and efficiency in the context of an annual release cadence
• Successfully position design to be delivering ahead of the next iteration, not reacting late
• Partner with Design Leads to translate creative vision into achievable plans, timelines, and milestones
• Proactively identify delivery risks, dependencies, capacity constraints, and mitigation strategies
• Safeguard design quality through effective planning that considers stakeholder feedback and iteration loops
• Ensure validation gates are utilised and requirements satisfied to enable designs to move into production with confidence
• Drive build reviews and continuous improvement initiatives
• Support evolution and improvement of design production processes to enable clarity, consistency, and scalability
• Provide clear, concise, and actionable updates on progress, risks, and decisions
• Facilitate alignment and collaboration across creative, technical, and production perspectives

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Proven experience in senior game production roles with accountability for delivery of creative work
• Deep understanding of production in a creative setting, with experience delivering in a deadline-driven environment
• Able to bring solid organisation and pro-active intent to a fast-moving, ambitious studio
• Comfortable operating among legacy complexity whilst focussed on forward-thinking opportunity
• Strong command of production tools (Jira, Confluence) with an understanding for how they add delivery confidence, not administrative overhead
• A confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills
• Experience working on large-scale, systems-driven or simulation-heavy games
• Familiarity with Football Manager or deep sports simulation titles

Benefits of Working at Sports Interactive:

• Private Healthcare and Dental Plans.
• A range of Gym Membership options through our Benefits partners.
• Travel Insurance for yourself and your family.
• Subsidised mental health, therapy, and coaching sessions are available.
• Access to our on-site physical and massage therapist services.
• Free access to games released under the SEGA Europe umbrella.
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 7% of annual salary).
• Regular events in collaboration with our partnered football clubs.
• Free onsite evening bar in our London HQ.
• A well-stocked breakfast bar with cereals, fruits, teas, and coffees.
• Multiple clubs and societies to join e.g., book club and art workshops.
• Your club’s shirt personalised upon passing probation.
• Trophies & gift cards for length of service milestones.
• Cupcakes delivered on your birthday.

What is it like to work here?

We approach everything with passion, whether that is making our mark on the football industries or doing our bit for the world around us. We want to share that outlook with everyone who shows up to work here each day.

For us, talent wins games, but teamwork wins titles. All our roles require a level of Studio attendance to help us collaborate effectively and stay connected as a team. Collaboration is the key to constantly topping our best. Everyone's contribution counts, no matter which part of the business you are in. We encourage and support our people in driving your own growth and realising your full potential. But, more than anything else, we are a team. A team with a down-to-earth dynamic, that has a lot of fun doing what we do.

And whether that’s technical tweaks or fine-tuning our creative process, everything is geared at producing the best game possible for our players. To do that, we need to be tenacious and ambitious and not be afraid of switching things up. It is these principles that have enabled us to produce a game that has defined year after year, and that will continue to push us for many more to come.

We’re also a London Living Wage employer and boast one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from any relevant candidate irrespective of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief.

SI is proudly a Disability Confident Committed employer, and we are dedicated to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible. Our studio has disabled access and facilities but please ensure you advise us if you require any other reasonable adjustments to be made to support you during the recruitment process.

Our Values:

• Keep collaborating: Teamwork wins titles - Here, ideas belong to everyone, whatever department you’re part of. Collaboration lets us score more as a team than we could individually.
• Be flexible: We think fast and adapt faster. The football and entertainment worlds never stand still, so we keep progressing and switching things up to stay ahead.
• Stay Tenacious: We don’t overlook the details. Everything we do is about producing the best game possible, in other words, never settle.
• Show Ambition: Let your drive lead the way - Your individual outlook can give everyone the edge. Make the studio’s purpose personal and let your drive lead the way.
• Bring the Passion: Have fun doing your thing - Don’t be fooled, what we do is not a game. Making our players’ passion come to life is our passion.
• Consider the Bigger Picture: Keep things in perspective - We want our impact to be a positive one. From built-in work/life balance to initiatives covering the most important topics of today, we have what matters in focus.