Lead Producer (Systems)

divspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Job Title: Lead Producer (Systems)/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Team:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" Football Manager Production/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Reporting into:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" Director of Development/span/divdivbspan style="font-family: Archia;"Hybrid working status:/span/bspan style="font-family: Archia;" Fully remote available/Hybridbr /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Studio Overview/span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"We are Sports Interactive /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;background: white;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"The gaming studio behind: /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;background: white;"⚽/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;background: white;" Football Manager./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"Founded in 1994, Sports Interactive became a wholly owned subsidiary of SEGA Europe in 2006. Based at the Here East technology hub in Stratford, East London, the SI team continues to expand as we bring our titles to an ever-growing audience across an increasing variety of platforms./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;background: white;"To support our growth, we welcome the opportunity to connect with passionate people with the drive to match our ambitions and initiative to realise your individual potential./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Position Overview/span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"We’re looking for a Lead Producer to lead delivery efforts across our Systems team and to /spanspan /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;"help shape the technical direction of the studio and ensure our use of Unity and our in-house tools and systems are robust, scalable, and future ready.br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"In this role, you’ll be working closely with our Technical Director and take ownership of roadmap delivery across a variety of highly specialised teams, spanning tools, backend services, build amp; test pipelines, graphics, mobile/handheld, and shared frameworks amp; libraries/spanspan./spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"You’ll provide mentorship and direction within the team to ensure consistent production practices, cross-team coordination, and timely, high-quality output. You’ll also be a key voice in longer-term planning conversations, helping define how we evolve to support current and future product needs.br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"This is a high-impact role in which you’ll balance long-term technical vision with the flexibility to respond to evolving business priorities. Our plans are ambitious and fast-moving, so we’re looking for a proactive team player and strong motivator who can bring clarity, energy, and organisation to a demanding but rewarding environment.br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Key Responsibilities/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divul style="margin-top: 0.0cm;"li style=""span style="font-family: Archia;"Own and drive the overall production strategy for the Systems amp; Technology department, ensuring delivery is aligned with studio-wide goals./span/lili style=""span style="font-family: Archia;"Collaborate with the Technical Director and other leaders to shape and maintain long-term technical roadmaps and team structures./span/lili style=""span style="font-family: Archia;"Anticipate and resolve cross-team dependencies and bottlenecks, proactively addressing risks and aligning teams around priorities./span/lili style=""span style="font-family: Archia;"Communicate progress and plans clearly to studio leadership, ensuring transparency across both short-term sprint work and long-term goals./span/lili style=""span style="font-family: Archia;"Champion high-quality planning and delivery practices, evolving workflows where necessary to improve predictability and efficiency./span/lili style=""span style="font-family: Archia;"Represent Systems amp; Tech in studio-wide planning, collaborating with other Leads to align initiatives, resources, and release planning./span/lili style=""span style="font-family: Archia;"Representative of the Line Managers cross-studio team to co-ordinate studio leads and input and participate in developing studio culture, priorities and policies. /spanspan /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lili style=""span style="font-family: Archia;"Establish and maintain SEGA cross-studio relationships with peers to share experiences and opportunities./span/li/uldivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Knowledge, Skills, and Experience/span/divul style="margin-top: 0.0px;"lispan style="font-family: Archia;"Experience in a senior or lead production role within games or software development./span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Strong understanding of technical workflows, systems architecture, and development pipelines./spanspan /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Proven track record leading production efforts across multiple teams or departments with experience managing, mentoring, or coaching producers or PM’s./spanspan /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Comfortable working across engineering heavy domains and translating technical plans into actionable, trackable roadmaps./spanspan /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Clear communicator and strong stakeholder manager with the ability to tailor information to developers, producers, and SLT./spanspan /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Highly organised, solutions focused, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving environment./spanspan /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/lilispan style="font-family: Archia;"Knowledge in agile and waterfall processes, and SCRUM and Kanban methodologies./spanspan /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/li/uldivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Benefits of Working at Sports Interactive:/span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"A flexible working policy to best suit you and your team. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Subsidised mental health, therapy and coaching sessions are available. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 7% of annual salary). /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Free onsite evening bar in the Sports Interactive London HQ. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"A well-stocked breakfast bar with cereals, fruits, teas, and coffees. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Regular events in collaboration with our partnered football clubs. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" ️/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Access to our on-site physical and massage therapist services. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Multiple clubs and societies to join e.g., book club and art workshops. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Free access to games released under the SEGA Europe umbrella. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" ️/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"A range of Gym Membership options through our Benefits partners. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" ️/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Fully Subsidised Healthcare and Dental Plans. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"Free Travel Insurance for yourself and your family. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;"✈️/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"A personalized football shirt upon passing probation. /spanspan style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Emoji' , sans-serif;" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';" /span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"What is it like to work here?/span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"span style="font-family: Archia;" /spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" /span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"span style="font-family: Archia;"We approach everything with bpassion/b, whether that is making our mark on the gaming and football industries or doing our bit for the world around us. We want to share that outlook with everyone who shows up to work here each day. /span/divdivspan style="font-family: Archia;"For us, talent wins games, but teamwork wins titles. Collaboration is the key to constantly topping our best. We believe beveryone matters/b, no matter which part of the business you are in, so we encourage and support our people in driving your own growth and realising your full potential. But, more than anything else, we are a team. A team with a down-to-earth dynamic, that has a lot of fun doing what we do./span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"span style="font-family: Archia;"And whether that’s technical tweaks or fine-tuning our creative process, everything is geared at producing the best game possible for our players. To do that, we need to be tenacious and move quickly, and not be afraid of switching things up. It is these principles that have enabled us to produce a game that has defined year after year, and that will continue to push us for many more to come. /span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"span style="font-family: Archia;"Our flexible working culture gives you the opportunity to optimise your workload, with in-office, hybrid, and remote working options dependent on role. So, if you want a work/life balance, we are behind you. Because while we live to create extraordinary games, we know that is not all you have got going on. You can trust that we always keep things in perspective, fostering an environment bwhere work can be more than just a job/b.br /br //span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"span style="font-family: Archia;"We’re also a London Living Wage employer, boast one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry and are proud to have won the ‘Best Places to Work’ award by Gamesindustry.biz in large company category in 2023.br /br //span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"ispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 107.0%;font-family: Archia;"We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from any relevant candidate irrespective of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion, or belief. /span/ispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 107.0%;font-family: Archia;" /span/divdiv style="line-height: 107.0%;"ispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 107.0%;font-family: Archia;"SI is proudly a Disability Confident Committed employer, and we are dedicated to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible. Our studio has disabled access and facilities but please ensure you advise us if you require any other reasonable adjustments to be made to support you during the recruitment process./span/ispan style="font-size: 10.0pt;line-height: 107.0%;font-family: Archia;" br /br //span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Our Values:/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Keep collaborating:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" Teamwork wins titles - Here, ideas belong to everyone, whatever department you’re part of. Collaboration lets us score more as a team than we could individually.span style="color: rgb(15,71,97);" /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Be flexible:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" We think fast and adapt faster. The football and entertainment worlds never stand still, so we keep progressing and switching things up to stay ahead.span style="color: rgb(15,71,97);" /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Stay Tenacious/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;": We don’t overlook the details. Everything we do is about producing the best game possible, in other words, never settle.span style="color: rgb(15,71,97);" /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Show Ambition:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" Let your drive lead the way - Your individual outlook can give everyone the edge. Make the studio’s purpose personal and let your drive lead the way.span style="color: rgb(15,71,97);" /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Bring the Passion:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" Have fun doing your thing - Don’t be fooled, what we do is not a game. Making our players’ passion come to life is our passion.span style="color: rgb(15,71,97);" /span/span/divdivspan style="font-family: 'Archia SemiBold';"Consider the Bigger Picture:/spanspan style="font-family: Archia;" Keep things in perspective - We want our impact to be a positive one. From built-in work/life balance to initiatives covering the most important topics of today, we have what matters in focus./span/div