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Associate Producer

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Soul Assembly

Competitive

Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Production

ASAP

05/09/2023

Mid-Senior Level

Permanent | Full Time

No

ABOUT SOUL ASSEMBLY

Soul Assembly is an exciting and rapidly growing games developer, currently consisting of 70+ employees. We have created some of the most high profile and most downloaded titles in the XR space today, from our lovely offices in the heart of Leamington Spa. Joining Soul Assembly now will give you the opportunity to be a part of a growing team exploring the exciting new opportunities that XR and the metaverse offer. This new opportunity, will give you the chance to help us create the next successful title in our catalogue of amongst the most purchased games in the VR market. We pride ourselves on the supportive and creative environment we have within the studio, where our focus is always "Making Games With Heart and Soul."

THE ROLE

As the Associate Producer, y ou will be a key member of the development team. You will be empowered to solve problems and seek to improve processes. This is the chance to have a key role and ownership on our projects. You will have a strong understanding of agile development principles and practices and you'll help to steer our exciting projects and be a main driver for innovative feature development.

This is a great opportunity to join a rapidly growing and successful developer at an exciting time in the studio's journey and work on our titles that continually push the limits of the latest mobile and VR hardware with highly talented and experienced colleagues.

As part of the role, you will assist the Production team in the running of live projects, responsibilities include: working with multidisciplinary teams to develop features on time and within budget, the coordination of daily stand-ups and ownership of sprint planning meetings, as well as helping to identify development impediments and finding solutions in a creative and cohesive manner.

Other responsibilities include:

• Resource balancing

• Identifying new tasks for current or future sprints

• Clarifying and expanding task descriptions

• Tracking development over time and reporting to Production

• Identifying and mitigating development risks

REQUIRED SKILLS

  • Demonstrable experience of Agile project management methodologies, and a solid understanding of game production processes.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication with a keen eye for detail.
  • Able to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, inspiring and leading them to achieving goals.
  • Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills with a cool, calm approach.
  • Ability to work well in a team
  • Proven ability to achieve targets and hitting their deadlines
  • Effective meeting management skills, confidently setting agendas and driving resolution of follow-up actions.


NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

  • At least 2+ years of relevant experience in the games industry.
  • Strong experience of JIRA & Confluence.
  • Qualifications in Agile game development.
  • Passionate about games and XR.


WHY APPLY TO SOUL ASSEMBLY?

Joining the team now will give you the chance to be a part of a successful and growing team, that is going from strength to strength. We'll also give you the opportunity to:

  • Enjoy a relaxed, friendly and progressive work environment.
  • 25 days annual leave, with the ability to take 5 days over per year when needed and a "Duvet" day after one year.
  • Help define the studio culture and values.
  • Contribute your input and ideas to our games and to all areas of our business.
  • Be involved in defining studio processes and working practices.


In addition, we will:
  • Pay a competitive salary, negotiable based on experience.
  • Enhanced Sick Pay.
  • Enhanced Parental Leave.
  • Private Medical Insurance.
  • Provide regular activities such as pub, cinema nights and team-building events.
  • Relocation package for non-UK residents with support for all dependants.
  • Commitment to adding additional benefits as we grow.


At Soul Assembly, we strive to provide an inclusive environment where everyone, irrespective of background, can do their best work and be part of our rapid success and growth. Recruitment selection is based on skills, experience and being a good fit with our company values and mission statement.

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