Producer

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Producer

Hutch are looking for a Producer to join the team in London. You should be a great collaborator and team member, believing that Producers help make the teams lives easier. You should have a strong understanding of project management techniques and the ability to work within an agile environment. Our teams are empowered to do great things and the Producer is an integral part of ensuring things run to plan and budget.

Responsibilities

  • Own the agile process. Being responsible for running daily scrums, fortnightly sprints, retrospectives and planning sessions
  • Run retrospectives to evaluate and improve the working processes with the team.
  • Identify, surface and manage risks
  • Work with the team to create a feature roadmap and project schedule, setting workable and realistic deadlines. Own and manage the schedule throughout development
  • Have budgeting responsibilities ensuring things stay on plan and on budget
  • Work with the team on performance management and development opportunities.
  • Liaising with other teams internally and externally such as marketing, outsourcers and localisation teams, to ensure priorities are communicated
  • Manage and monitor the team culture and health ensuring people are happy, healthy and harmonious

Requirements

  • Previous experience as a Producer or equivalent in video games, preferably in mobile free-to-play, running as a live service
  • An understanding of the mobile F2P business & mobile development.
  • A deep understanding of agile and scrum development
  • An understanding and appreciation of lean development principles and how to implement them
  • Strong emotional intelligence and a genuine interest in caring about your team and ensuring that people come first over project goals
  • Great communication skills to communicate in the team and across the studio

Bonus Points

  • Experience with Jira is preferred, for task and bug tracking, running sprints and managing workflows
  • A love of cars, motorsport and things with wheels!

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

  • Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote working 2 days per week
  • Excellent salaries
  • Stock Options
  • Private health care
  • Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
  • Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
  • Free snacks and drinks
  • Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

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