Senior Development Director – AAA Console/PC Games, Hybrid in North , UK

One Player Mission is working with an exciting studio founded in 2012 by a group of creative and management veterans with years of industry experience. A visionary game development studio based in the heart of Liverpool’s vibrant game development hub with over 200 team members.

They’re looking for a Senior Development Director to join their team and set up and maintain project schedules for both short and long-term project goals.

RESPONISIBILITIES:

• Assisting Game Director and Production Team with project direction, scope and milestone planning and risk assessment.
• Taking part in backlog creation and refinement, Sprint and Milestone planning.
• Running daily stand ups.
• Reporting progress to the team, studio management, and external partners.
• Work with the Production team to ensure quality targets are maintained alongside timescales and budget.
• Develop excellent relationships with Publishers and other external partners.
• Developing a positive and energetic team culture.
• Facilitating the development of the game, identifying and removing obstacles from the teams’ path.
• Be solutions-driven, reliable and honest.
• Manage risks, issues, and change requests and proactively solve problems before they impact the schedule.
• Collaborate with the Outsourcing Manager to plan feasible scope.
• Anticipate resource needs, both short-term and long-term, and able to work with changing design requirements.
• Manage risks, issues, and change requests and proactively solve problems before they impact the schedule.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Outstanding communication skills both verbal and written
• Working knowledge of project management practices (Agile, Prince2 etc).
• Working knowledge of industry standard packages (MS Office, Jira, Perforce etc).
• An appreciation of change management
• Friendly and approachable personality
• Energetic and positive attitude
• Proactive and entrepreneurial
• Must be able to work well under pressure
• Ability to work well with people at all levels of the organisation
• Previous games industry experience in a similar role

DESIRABLE (Good to have)

• Knowledge of Confluence for documentation
• Experience of Shotgun useful but not essential
• An understanding of PlayStation Content and release pipelines and back-end systems

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 427!