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These games jobs were last updated on 01/09/10. If you are interested in any of them please quote the ref no(s) and send your CV to Julien.

Our client is the leader online games development, with 45 game websites in 17 languages. Since 2004, they’ve created game experiences for families, teens, and kids. In addition to partnering up with top-notch game developers and publishers for gaming content, they also have several in-house game studios creating specialised high-quality games that are focused on the needs of their audiences. As the Executive Game Producer, you will take ownership of overall in-house and third-party game studios’ project management. You will report to the Game Development Director and will lead a team of three direct reports.

Responsibilities:
· Ensure that the development of all game projects occurs in a timely manner and within budget while meeting quality standards
· Collect business requirements from stakeholders and delegate work packages to producers
· Optimise project management, communication, and reporting processes and implement a solid project-management reporting structure
· Manage a team of internal and external producers
· Manage overall risk analysis and the scope of the game development process
· Coordinate projects across different departments and geographical locations

Requirements:
· Minimal HBO/Bachelor’s education in a relevant field: marketing with solid understanding of web technology
· Leadership experience
· Experience managing multiple game development projects with large teams
· Scheduling and budgeting experience
· Conflict management experience
· Outsource experience a plus
· Risk analysis experience
· Positive, responsible, team player, constructively critical, with a proven ability to motivate others
· Passion for online games will be a plus.

The Netherlands €GOOD

Contact: Donna Ref: 36164 01/09/10

We are looking for an experienced Games Producer to become a part of their development team, managing all operation of one or more titles at the same time.

Responsibilities:
- Improving the performance of games
- Seeking ways to improve player experience
- Planning and tracking resources for ongoing development
- Setting and controlling the game budget
- Driving games end-user monetization on a daily basis
- Setting performance targets for usage and revenues
- Delegating and outsourcing work packages to relevant parties
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or higher education in relevant field
- Strong analytical skills
- Experience in realising successful games
- Experience with game business models (e.g., mobile and casual/social games).

The Netherlands €Good

Contact: Donna Ref: 36162 01/09/10

This cutting edge company creates games that appeal to more than just the hardcore gamer. They design social and innovative games that everyone can enjoy without facing a steep learning curve. They have won a BAFTA award for one of their games and been nominated three times. As a Senior Project Manager you will be leading a team of Project Managers and Coordinators delivering external and internal products.

Responsibilities:
- Forecasting, planning and reporting studio resourcing plans in line with the company business plan
- Developing, tracking and managing game budgets
- Reporting progress on game spend for all projects
- Overseeing all project schedules ensuring we can deliver projects on time and on budget every time
- Constantly assessing process with a view to improvement
- Ensuring the game teams keep on track
- Constantly assessing and producing solutions to solve risk
- Managing external and third party teams
- Driving our project management methodology and processes forward
- Delivering a strategic staff development plan within the Project Management team
- Reviewing department performance

Requirements:
- At least 5 years proven project management experience
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Experience of project management methodologies
- Proven planning, organisational and prioritisation skills
- Excellent numerical and process analysis skills
- Budget analysis and management
- Career development and coaching skills
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Leading and delivering projects.

South £ Good

Contact: Donna Ref: 36160 01/09/10

We are working with Sony Computer Entertainment's world class development studio in London. It has unrivalled development facilities and offers a creative and stimulating environment coupled with access to the best London has to offer from their Soho office. The Online Producer will be responsible for helping the team deliver a seamless online experience in our games and corresponding websites, and will be responsible for communicating with and building a base of passionate users by establishing the kind of web presence and communication channels necessary to keep our users engaged.

Responsibilities:
- Online Development
- Drive the planning, development, testing, and release of game's web/online presence with various stakeholders
- Write and manage community marketing content such as blog posts, announcements, etc
- Respond to customer incidents on the live service
- Coordinate QA and release process of game-integrated website
- Establish new online communication channels and streamline existing ones as necessary
- Work closely with marketing & community teams to engage end users
- Interface with external agencies and departments as necessary
- Project/Team management

Requirements:
- Successfully delivered online projects from inception to completion as a producer.
- Proven track record of managing and facilitating small teams.
- PS3 and/or social gaming would be an advantage.
- Excellent leadership, communication and negotiation skills
- Good organisational, scheduling, & planning ability
- Strong copy writing and editing ability

Additional requirements:
- Understands internet marketing, social media, SEO, etc
- Experience working with game-integrated websites
- Technical understanding of the web, knowledge of HTML, CSS
- Project management qualifications.

London £ Good + excellent benefits

Contact: Donna Ref: 36165 01/09/10

Our client is the worldwide leading provider and pioneer of online games with a number of awards won in the past year for the innovation and creativity. With their new technologies, they are able to realise new game concepts which contain graphics with a quality similar to that of console games but can still be played without downloading anything. Project Manager will be responsible for games developed by third parties and published by our client.

You have to have a good understanding of monetisation of games and their portal distribution.

It's also vital that you have a good understanding of games development and some technical knowledge of online space.

Germany €Very good

Contact: Donna Ref: 36161 01/09/10

Our client is the worldwide leading provider and pioneer of online games with a number of awards won in the past year for the innovation and creativity. With their new technologies, they are able to realise new game concepts which contain graphics with a quality similar to that of console games but can still be played without downloading anything. A Producer is responsible for the content and characteristics (KPIs) of the game/s assigned to them, and influences the personnel make-up of the corresponding product team.
Your main task is to ensure the success of the product, which you can achieve mainly through further development (updates/features), events, and by monitoring the Community.

Responsibilities:
- Setting up, optimising and supporting production processes
- Planning, introducing, implementing and monitoring the products
- Ensuring the performance and quality that are set as targets
- Secure and binding interface communication within the Company
- Ensuring continuous operation
- KPI.

Germany €Very Good

Contact: Donna Ref: 36163 01/09/10

We are working with Sony Computer Entertainment's world class development studio in London. It has unrivalled development facilities and offers a creative and stimulating environment coupled with access to the best London has to offer from their Soho office. The Content Producer will be responsible to creating a content for online products and services that is in line with business objectives by supporting the brand and breeding consumer loyalty.

Responsibilities
- Create a broad range of creative and entertaining interactive content for online channels
- Research new game content, hardware, peripherals and industry news with a view to generating new content ideas.
- Understand and implement branding guidelines; follow industry and best practice writing guidelines.
- Edit, update and proof-read content.
- Source design assets and maintain an awareness of visual assets for Portal content.
- Build content in Flow content management system and approve for upload.
- Annotate content with territory notes and feed back on localisation queries.
- Arrange, brief in and conduct video or text-based interviews, creating transcripts where applicable.
- Review and approve content with business stakeholders.
- Manage the creation of sensitive content.
- Review existing content with a view to increasing its effectiveness.
- Plan and schedule daily/weekly content in collaboration with business stakeholders and the Content Production Manager.
- Assist with agency briefings when required.
- Disseminate knowledge of guidelines to internal and external clients.
- Foster, manage and maintain close relationships with Campaign Producers, First Party Producers and PR, Third Party Producers and PR (for news, assets and code), Online Design, Localisation and Marketing and, less frequently, with Business Affairs and the New Release team.

London £ Good + excellent benefits

Contact: Donna Ref: 36166 01/09/10

Our client is an interactive services provider with a great reputation in their field. As the production Manager you will be fostering a production pipeline of new and library game titles onto new and existing platforms. You will oversee the entire process as well as contributing creatively to functional design, creating and maintaining documents and liasing with all production staff to ensure games are of a high standard and delivered in a timely fashion.

Requirements:
- Proven game design and production credentials (preferred a design or development background)
- Min 3 years experience
- Fluency in production/planning software tools
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Sound technical knowledge of current and emerging platforms
- Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing priorities
- Top tier organizational skills
- Passion for social gaming

Responsibilities:
- Manage end-to-end production of all games across all platforms
- Manage a multi site team of developers, artists and QA
- Report progress to all stakeholders
- Contribute to functional design
- Documentation of all functionality and processes
- Establish and maintain product quality threshold to support key business objectives
- Maintain an up to date knowledge of the casual/social gaming sector.

London £GOOD

Contact: Donna Ref: 36107 19/08/10

This cutting edge company creates games that appeal to more than just the hardcore gamer. They design social and innovative games that everyone can enjoy without facing a steep learning curve. Every game they've worked on has been BAFTA nominated. We are looking for a Senior Producer to:
* Lead an internal team developing titles for PlayStation3, maintaining the highest level quality standard throughout development
* Take responsibility for working relationships with our publishing partner and their producers
* Play a key role in the development of new concepts that fit under the umbrella of the franchises

Requirements:
* Have a proven track record in producing successful videogames
* Min 6 years experience
* Must have current gen experience, ideally multiplatform
* Have experience of managing or mentoring staff
* Demonstrate exceptional leadership and communication skills within large creative teams
* Have experience and understanding of large software publishing organisations and their processes
* Enjoy building sandcastles.

South coast £neg

Contact: Donna Ref: 36108 19/08/10

We are looking for a successful Senior producer with very strong managerial, production and business skills.

Responsibilities:

- search and identify new mobile product opportunities
- build business case for such and win stakeholders support for implementation
- lead and execute all new mobile initiatives, delivering products to the highest quality
- leading multiple projects simultaneously
- partner with senior production team in achieving successful development results
- develop, maintain and leverage a strong working knowledge of European mobile industry trends - business models, platform, consumer behaviour, etc

Requirements:
- mobile production experience min 3 years
- a proven track record identifying and achieving business opportunities in the industry
- established history of delivering complex development projects on-schedule and on budget
- very strong communication skills, including ability to present game concepts
- adept at building relationships across organisations and cultures
- strong understanding of game design
- experience managing multiple project and teams
- proficient with MS Office.

London £GOOD

Contact: Donna Ref: 35958

Development Director- Mobile Games - London

My client is one of the worlds best respected mobile games development studios in the world today. I am looking for a Development Director whose responsibilities will include day to day people management, end-to-end project management of mobile games development; budgeting, scheduling, tracking development, ensuring deliverables are met in a timely manner and reporting project progress to management.

Core Responsibilities:
* Partner with Producers to manage the complete end-to-end process for the making of video games on all target platforms for global launches incl. iPhone, iPad, J2ME, BREW, WinCE, Android, Palm and more.
*Experience running multiple projects in parralell
* Create project plans for all products assigned to the team from the development slate and ensure delivery on-time and on-budget.
* Manage relationship and milestone deliverables with third party developers and other external vendors.
*+ Many more!

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the very best studios in Mobile Games Development, you will be in charge of big budgets, the best resources available in the industry including a fantastic development team and will be an integral part of driving smartphone mobile games dev to the next level.

Please get in touch ASAP for more info!
Many Thanks!
Matt.

London Director Level

Contact: Matthew Ref: 32715

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's Third Party Relations Group provides a full range of services that supports the development of PlayStation products by both SCEE and its third party partners throughout Europe and Australasia. The main purpose of this role is to provide initial and key contact point for a range of SCEE's PlayStation Development community. Support accounts, recognise, seek, and nurture commercial opportunities.

Experience required includes:
1 Games industry background.
2 Technical understanding of development
3 Understanding of the lifecycle of development of a game
4 Publishing understanding
5 Commercial savvy of the games market at present and also the digital future.

If this is of interest, please apply in confidence to julien@datascope.co.uk.

London £neg

Contact: Julien Ref: 32597

This independent games company is a leading provider of Massively Multiplayer Online Game technology. They have developed rapidly since launch, led by a managerial team with over 80 years of games experience between them who have formed a team dedicated to producing creative and groundbreaking games while having a good time doing it - a strategy which has seen them deliver a growing number of commercial and critical successes. We are looking for a dynamic and results driven Game Director to manage all aspects of our clients F2P MMO game.

Responsibilities:
- management and production of the highest possible quality Game, whilst ensuring delivery to the agreed schedule
- 'vision' holder for the Game and have overall responsibility for game design and content alongside working with the publisher to develop the strategic vision of the game
- management of all publishing relationships and contractual issues, negotiating/finalising complex contracts with Head of Online.
- provide weekly reports to the Studio Head and Monthly Board updates on development activity and game progress

Requirements:
- excellent knowledge and proven experience of the Gaming Industry/challenges, new technology - specifically MMOs
- strong commercial acumen with a solid understanding of the online gaming industry
- ability to assess and create challenging yet realistic business development plan..
- high self confidence with the ability to interface effectively with all levels of management, team and external stakeholders
- contract negotiation experience
- proven team leader and developer of teams
- understanding of different technologies, tools, formats, and relative or technical approaches that are available
- passion for Online games, football knowledge essential.

Midlands £GOOD

Contact: Donna Ref: 32544

This central UK games company develops and publishes games for Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and PCs, as well as multiplayer and world games for internet play. They have been in existence for years and have had many No 1 hits across Europe. They have been voted Publisher of the Year by gaming magazines. We are looking for a Development Manager to act as the main point of contact for all projects related issues. You will be required to review current processes, team productivity, improve services, mentor and support production team.

Responsibilities:
- Monitor all aspects of project management and planning processes
- Establishing a realistic project scope
- Working directly with 3rd party partners
- Set up and monitor project plans, risk and issue registers
- Working closely with senior team including marketing, executive producers, project managers and offer support where needed
- Seek out outsourcing partners
- Build and maintain relationships with 3rd parties

Requirements:
- Experience planning and tracking multiple projects
- Experience generating and tracking contracts
- Min 3 years production experience
- Experience with MMOs or other online games
- Strong MS skills including MS project
- Programme management.

Midlands £GOOD

Contact: Donna Ref: 32529

This central UK games company develops and publishes games for Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and PCs, as well as multiplayer and world games for internet play. They have been in existence for years and have had many No 1 hits across Europe. They have been voted Publisher of the Year by gaming magazines. We are looking for an Executive Producer to work across multiple internal development. You will play a key role in bringing online games to market, overseeing and being responsible for planning, budgets and execution of all their online gams and teams.

Responsibilities:
- Delivery of multi-project game development and associated plans, reporting and budgets based on the games specifications, regular product reviews
- Work with senior team of the online studio
- Implement, monitor and audit all aspects of programme and project management & planning processes
- Direct management for team leads
- Recruitment
- Mentoring, training and appraisals
- Implement and review current process and procedures
Budgetary tracking, forecasting and reporting for dev projects

Requirements:
- Degree level or equivalent
- Experience developing MMOs
- Experience generating and tracking deals
- Experience managing multiple internal dev teams
- Min 5 years production experience
- Work knowledge of project management techniques and methodologies
- MS office and MS project
- Programme management.

Midlands £GOOD

Contact: Donna Ref: 32521

This games company has been in existence for years and have had many No 1 hits across Europe. They have built a new world-class studio, allowing their highly talented and capable teams to develop cross-platform original IP. They pride themselves on the culture and values of their working environment and understand what it takes to deliver the best. They are now looking for a Producer for new IP to manage the day-to-day tasks of the development in order to deliver projects on time maintaining highest standards.

Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years experience
- Understanding of project management techniques and methodologies
- Experience of M/S office including M/S Project
- Excellent communication skills
- Great leadership quality.

Surrey £Good

Contact: Donna Ref: 32507

This central UK games company develops and publishes games for Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and PCs, as well as multiplayer and world games for internet play. They have been in existence for years and have had many No 1 hits across Europe. They have been voted Publisher of the Year by gaming magazines.
The Senior Producer will manage the day-to-day and strategic functions of a project, using their experience to identify and resolve issues in order to deliver on time with required quality standards.

Responsibilities:
- To validate that all documentation required to pass Development Process gateways is produced on time and to the required quality.
- To work with Project Planning Manager to define development processes for the entire project lifecycle.
- Review detailed milestone deliverables and ensure they are fully achieved
- Validate weekly Project Progress Reports, including detailed Risk Register.
- Report to the Executive Producer on progress, budgets, risks and issues.
- Define in conjunction with Brand and Marketing the process and schedule for the supply of marketing assets.
- Work with Chief Game Designer and Producer to maximize game quality within time and cost constraints.
- Regular staff appraisal, review and objective setting for first line reports.

Midlands £GOOD

Contact: Donna Ref: 32506

Billing Specialist / Mobile Telecoms / Music Products / London

***My client is a world renowned award winning software house that specialises in delivering an unlimited media download service to multiple device platforms including Mobile, Web, and in-home devices. A leader in its field my client is growing rapidly having successfully opened up markets on four continents, the need has arisen to add to the technical operations team; specifically they need a Billing Systems Manager Manager.

Profile:
**Billing Systems Specialist
**Experience Billing System Design
**Exp Billing system reporting
**Technical Background / Developer
**Management Experience
**Client Facing
**Problem Solving Ability
**SQL knowledge and either Java or C/C++/C#

My client has a bespoke in house build billing system that due to exponential demand for my clients products now needs a dedicated billing expert to take control going forwards.

It s a fantastic opportunity to shape a key role within a company that continues to develop new leading edge solutions that is revolutionising peoples music listening / media viewing habits. A very competitive salary is offered and its offices are located truly stunning, prestigious London location.

All CV's considered / Referrals very welcome. Please get in touch ASAP to find out more.

London £60K

Contact: Matthew Ref: 32500

Our Client is an innovative developer and publisher of personalised 3D mobile games and mobile entertainment content. They are noticeably expanding at a rapid pace, not only in their content portfolio and partnerships with major master publishers and aggregators, but also investing in quality and experienced workforce to ensure that they continues to be a leading force in the industry. I'm currently looking for an Executive Producer to join a 3D games studio in Canada.

Requirements:
- min 5 years experience in games production
- excellent coaching and communication skills
- desirable: experience with casual / mobile games but not essential.

Canada CAD $ Good

Contact: Donna Ref: 32441

This is a fantastic studio that has a space open for your fantastic skills and games background. They are currently developing their next high paced, visually alive title for the next generation consoles and PC's. I'm looking for an experience FPS Producer to join a great studio in Eastern Europe.

Requirements:
- min 3 years experience
- at least one FPS tittle published
- excellent communication skills
- team management

Please get in touch for more details.

Warsaw Good

Contact: Donna Ref: 32407

We are working with Sony Computer Entertainment's world class development studio in London. It has unrivalled development facilities and offers a creative and stimulating environment coupled with access to the best London has to offer from their Soho office. We are looking for a highly experienced Producer to join the development team of one of their most successful products.

Role Overview:
- Responsible for the timely delivery of all titles developed by the franchise (internal and external), in accordance with the quality standards set by the Game Director and Discipline Leads, while continuously improving the work-life balance of the team
- Defining, evangelising and enforcing a best practice production methodology for the franchise

Key Skills/Experience:
- Successfully shipped at least 2 projects from inception to completion as a producer
- Proven track record of managing 20+ teams
- Outsourcing experience
- PS3 and/or social gaming would be an advantage
- Project management and organisational skills required

Key areas of responsibility:
- Responsible for the delivery of all titles developed by the franchise, internally, externally or via licensing, to the quality set by the Game Director and the time and cost standards set by the Production Manager
- Resolve time-cost-quality conflicts escalated by Discipline Leads within the franchise
- Supervise post-mortem execution at the end of each title, and ensure approved issues are turned into action points
- Define a schedule and budget and track the teams progress against it, identify critical paths, key risks, change and slippage and put solutions in place to mitigate them
- Define and enforce production processes as set by the Production Manager to ensure efficiency, focus and strong morale
- Balance production considerations with quality and creativity in decision-making
- Carry out secondary line management responsibilities for the Discipline Leads including personal development, training and appraising
- Point-of-contact for anything relating to the development and delivery of the title
- Maintain effective communication with the entire team, at all levels.

London £Good + excellent benefits

Contact: Donna Ref: 32408

We are working with Sony Computer Entertainment's world class development studio in London. It has unrivalled development facilities and offers a creative and stimulating environment coupled with access to the best London has to offer from their Soho office.
Responsibilities:
- The timely delivery of all titles within a single franchise developed by the group, in accordance with the quality standards set by the Game Director and timescales set by the Production Manager
- Defining and keeping track of all schedules for both internal and external teams
- Management of internal and external teams ensuring all risks are identified and mitigated against
- Promoting progress visibility within the team and upwards to the project stakeholders
- Defining, evangelising and enforcing best practice as set by the Production Manager

Skills and Experience Required
- Has an excellent understanding of the game development process and a solid knowledge of the techniques of design, art, programming, audio/video, and QA.
- Must have worked on at least three finished titles (or equivalent experience in the games industry or a related field) in a production/ project management capacity.
- Experience in managing a team of producers or project managers would be desirable
- Able to work across multiple disciplines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Practitioner in Scrum or equivalent methodologies is beneficial
- Experience working with internal and external teams.

London £Good + excellent benefits

Contact: Donna Ref: 32409