Assistant Producer (Hybrid Options)

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Posted 24 November 2022
Salary Negotiable
LocationGuildford
Job type Permanent
DisciplineProduction
Reference18377
Contact NameConnor Green

Job description

Supermassive Games are seeking an Assistant Producer to play a key role on their exciting projects! 

Supermassive Games are a BAFTA winning game studio who develop innovative storytelling titles. With a number of successful titles under their belt, Supermassive are best known for their critically acclaimed hits such as Until Dawn and their recent release, The Quarry.

As an Assistant Producer at the studio, you will ensure the successful delivery of the title, you will be taking ownership and responsibility for project planning and working together as teams to solve problems, achieve goals and deliver working software.

Your responsibilities…

  • Project planning and detailed week-by-week task-focused plans
  • Working with a wide range of people from the most senior to the most junior, willing to both listen carefully and challenge hard
  • Team management with an adaptable style, focused on facilitative leadership as opposed to ‘command and control’
  • A grasp of Agile and especially Scrum – for example, working as part of a Scrum team or acting as Scrum Master
  • Identifying process and planning issues and tenaciously following through to resolve them, adapting the team’s approach to improve performance
  • Experience of working in a constructively critical, open and honest culture
  • Supplier management, such as mo-cap, outsourcing or testing
  • Taking ownership of the project 
The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role…
  • Meticulously organised and detail orientated
  • In-depth knowledge of Excel
  • Familiarity with a variety of project management and bug tracking software such as Jira, DevTrack, and Trello
  • Passion for narrative-led games

Perks and benefits include…

  • Pension and life assurance
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Social events including the famously large summer party

Supermassive make big games with small teams and pride themselves on their supportive, inclusive, and friendly culture where work-life balance is both respected and protected. The studio celebrates and nurtures their devs and seeks to constantly improve tools and workflows so developers can focus on creativity, further supported by fast decision-making to allow good ideas to flourish.