Senior Producer Racing

Zynga; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in interactive entertainment is seeking a Senior Producer for their Racing Studio in Greater London. The ideal candidate will drive feature development for a new mobile racing game, ensuring high quality and timely delivery. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage risks, and communicate effectively across levels. This position embraces a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility while contributing to an exciting project with a renowned company.

Benefits

Competitive salary and discretionary annual bonus scheme

26 days holiday plus bank holidays & 2 paid personal days

Fully paid maternity/adoption leave

Pension plan with double matching employer contribution

Private medical & dental insurance

Mental health and neurodiversity support programs

Fitness reimbursement plan worth 600 per annum

Flexible working hours

Weekly happy hours and seasonal parties

Qualifications

• Demonstrable ability in live operations and games as a service.
• Comfortable communicating to teams and stakeholders.
• Experienced in Agile methodologies and project scheduling.
• Strong status and risk reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan the feature development phase from backlog to sign-off.
• Ensure quality and timely feature delivery with teams.
• Coordinate communication across levels to manage expectations.
• Triage and prioritize bug fixes to maintain project health.

Skills

Project Management Methodology

Crew Management

Mobile Marketing

Waterfall

Qualitative Research Interviewing

Jira

Adobe Premiere

Leadership Experience

Google Suite

Job description

Level Up Your Career with Zynga!

At Zynga we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive our games have been downloaded over 6 billion timesconnecting players in 175 countries through fun strategy and a little friendly competition.

From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles mind-bending puzzles and social word challenges our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille Words With Friends Zynga Poker Game of Thrones Slots Casino Wizard of Oz Slots Hit it Rich! Slots Wonka Slots Top Eleven Toon Blast Empires & Puzzles Merge Dragons! CSR Racing Harry Potter : Puzzles & Spells Match Factory and Color Block Jamplus many more!

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California our teams span North America Europe and Asia working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether youre spinning strategizing matching or competing Zynga is where fun meets innovationand where you can take your career to the next level.

Join us and be part of the play!

We embrace a hybrid work environment. Within this role you will work 3 days per week in our London office and the remaining days at home.

Our Racing Studio - responsible for the CSR Racing franchise and the #1 Racing Game on Mobile CSR2 - is one of the most ambitious successful and creatively inclusive studios in the UK. Based across three locations London Birmingham and Bangalore - the team loves welcoming diverse humble straightforward and ambitious talent aspiring for award-winning excellence. People who want to find a place where they will be supported and encouraged to do the best work of their career.

Position Overview

We are currently looking for a Senior Producer to work with multiple cross-functional Feature Development teams on a new project reporting to the Lead Producer.

As a Senior Producer at NaturalMotion you will be the driving force within teams. You will own the planning and path to achieving the highest quality with a new premiere mobile Racing game. You will empower teams to deliver an amazing game at high quality on budget and on time. You will champion the improvement of the development processes through team retrospectives and feedback.

You will work with risk assessment and risk mitigation planning. As part of your job you will proactively resolve any dependencies and communicate the production status plans risk mitigation and development metrics back to the team and to the studio leadership. You are able to react and make decisions quickly and independently.

What Youll Do

• Planning: Take responsibility for planning phase of feature development from early stages (Backlog) up to the sign-off before full Production starts working closely with dev team leads and project leadership while communicating clearly at all stages.
• Delivery: Working with feature teams leadership and partner teams you will capture and track the work to be done work with stakeholders engineering leaders and the team to set backlog priorities ensure ownership build long and short term plans and communicate to all interested parties. Ensure high quality timely delivery of scope to the teams being supported. Responsible for delivering features and content according to approved plans and to quality standards and deadlines required.
• Triage and prioritize bug fixes maintaining a healthy manageable controlled bug backlog with well understood testing plans.
• Communication Across Levels: Collaborate closely with Game Teams LiveOps and craft leaders to understand their requirements and ensure alignment managing expectations up to stakeholders and downwards to team as required.
• Process Reviews to improve efficiency and communication whilst remaining suitable for the style and expectations of the development team.

What You Bring

• You will have demonstrable ability in defining overseeing and executing best-practice Live Operations and Games as a Service approaches delivering vibrant performant content week after week
• You are able to represent the players needs in backlog planning and refinement meetings to ensure their expectations are consistently being exceeded
• Comfortable communicating and presenting to big teams leadership and Zynga stakeholders. Effective in one-to-one as well as one-to-many communication. Effective team collaborator and meeting facilitator
• Highly capable and experienced in Agile SCRUM Kanban team management long and short-term project scheduling and execution
• Strong status and risk reporting skills including executive-level project reporting
• Effective at bringing order out of chaos excellent prioritization and decision making skills
• Capable of being responsible for a defined area of a project expected to provide best
• practice input and mentoring to the more junior members of the group

Bonus Points

• Knowledge about mobile games and the key design and monetization trends and opportunities that will shape live operations in the future
• A real passion for gaming especially mobile

What We Offer You

• Competitive salary and discretionary annual bonus scheme
• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays & 2 paid personal days
• 6 months fully paid maternity / adoption leave and 16 weeks fully paid paternity leave (eligibility criteria applies)
• Pension plan with a double matching employer contribution
• Private medical & dental insurance and healthcare cash plan
• Life insurance personal accident insurance and income protection
• Mental health and neurodiversity support programs
• Company Employee Stock Purchase Plan (eligibility criteria applies)
• Fitness reimbursement plan worth 600 per annum
• Flexible working hours
• Weekly happy hours seasonal parties and monthly social events
• Annual rail season ticket advance and cycle to work scheme

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Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

Project Management Methodology,Crew Management,Mobile Marketing,Waterfall,Qualitative Research Interviewing,Jira,Project Management,Project Management Software,Adobe Premiere,Confluence,Leadership Experience,Google Suite

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1