Producer - Project Zanaris

4 Months ago • All levels • Game Production

Job Summary

Job Description

The Producer for Project Zanaris at Jagex will lead a multi-discipline team in creating new content for Old School RuneScape. Responsibilities include fostering communication and collaboration across teams, building and tracking milestone delivery plans, providing team support and coaching, communicating objectives, collaborating on the production roadmap, and identifying areas for improvement. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in a games production role, strong relationship-building skills, experience with various development methodologies (Agile, Lean, etc.), and proficiency with project tracking software (JIRA). This is a highly collaborative role involving close work with the Development Director and other stakeholders.
Must have:
  • Proven games production experience with multi-discipline teams
  • Effective working relationships at multiple seniority levels
  • Conflict management & cross-functional communication
  • Translating team vision into operating strategy
  • Understanding of games industry & relevant audiences
  • Experience with Agile/Lean development methodologies
  • Proficiency in project tracking software (JIRA)
Perks:
  • Private Healthcare (including Dental)
  • Pension contributions (minimum 6%)
  • Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
  • Life Insurance
  • Discretionary annual performance bonus
  • Enhanced family leave policies
  • Flexible working hours
  • 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays + option to buy/sell holidays

Job Details

Description

Are you an experienced Producer in games who wants to drive a talented multi-discipline team, producing the next iteration of content creation for Old School RuneScape?

As a Producer on Project Zanaris you will work closely with leaders across the teams, building and maintaining autonomous cross-functional collaboration between teams with shared goals and milestones.

This is a hugely impactful and collaborative role in the studio where you will be a key stakeholder for many of the individuals working on this exciting new product for Jagex.
You’ll be a driving force for the team, working closely with the Development Director and the wider team to help them achieve their goals.

 

What you’ll be doing:

  • Work closely with multi-discipline leads across the development team, fostering strong ongoing communication channels that increase productivity & collaboration across the team.
  • Build & Track milestone delivery plans, incorporating cross-functional input, objectives and deliverables.
  • Provide motivation, coaching and support for teams, ensuring they have the resources they need to accomplish their goals.
  • Communicate what business and team objectives are and how those will manifest with the wider team’s input.
  • Work closely with the Development Direct to create, update and carry out a production and delivery roadmap for Zanaris.
  • Identify areas for improvement and facilitate and drive continuous improvement using both proactive and reactive methods.

 

What we’re looking for:

  • Proven experience in a production role at a games studio working with multi-discipline teams.
  • Demonstrable experience of forging effective working relationships at multiple seniority levels with successful results.
  • Experience with conflict management, relationship building and cross-functional communication of challenges with a solutions-driven mindset.
  • Proven experience translating team vision into operating strategy and implementing these strategies.
  • A strong understanding of the games industry & relevant gaming audiences to Jagex.
  • Experience with various development methodologies and their applications (e.g. Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.) 
  • Experience effectively utilising project and quality tracking software (JIRA or similar).

 

 

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

  • Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
  • Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
  • Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling.
  • Life Insurance.
  • Discretionary annual performance bonus.
  • Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Please note that due to us approaching the Christmas & New Year break, we have many people among the hiring teams who are on annual leave or will be absent due to the studio closing over the holiday period.
This means that, in most cases, applications made during December are unlikely to proceed to interview until January 2025. We appreciate your patience during this time.

 

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise.

If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

 

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.

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About The Company

A leader in creating deep and engaging forever games on PC, Console & Mobile that empower our communities. Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.


Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 300 million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are forever games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.


Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focused development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.


Jagex has added to its skill set with the acquisitions of Pipeworks and Gamepires in 2022, bringing our expertise to titles such as SCUM, helping to make SCUM a forever game. It also works with external partners on products such as Melvor Idle and This Means Warp; bringing these titles to new and existing audiences.


Jagex employs more than 600 people at its Cambridge headquarters and around the world at Pipeworks in North America, and Gamepires in Europe. We’re always on the hunt for talented people to work across the business, to help the company to achieve its goals.

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