Assistant Producer New IP Oxford 2024

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool, and Wakefield. Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them. So, if you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support flexible/hybrid working options.

The role

We are looking for a highly motivated Assistant Producer to join our passionate and experienced Production team, to help work on a post-apocalyptic survival action game in development. The ideal candidate will be proficient in project management with an aptitude for prioritising and multi-tasking.

You will be part of the team that works with Rebellion’s internal development and publishing teams as well as external development teams. Working with external teams will give you an insight into how different teams work, giving you the opportunity to learn and evolve as an Assistant Producer with the longer-term aim of growing into the role of Producer.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate collaboration between Rebellion’s internal teams and external partners, supporting the work of the development partners ensuring a healthy communication flow exists.
• Ongoing assessment of production documents and Jira issues identifying bottlenecks and dependency issues and empowering the external partners to achieve milestone goals.
• Scheduling elements of the project and track the progress of tasks through to completion.
• Reviewing builds and milestone deliverables producing reports against the contracted milestones and production documents such as the GDD.
• Involvement in key meetings, document production and tracking action points & risks on Confluence.
• Coordinate outsourcing services such as localisation and track their progress.
• Sharing builds and compiling build notes for QA that are of a suitable quality and ensuring that QA have all relevant information that will allow them to test efficiently.
• Identifying release candidates, storing them in a predefined safe location and liaising with the submissions department to ensure the correct builds are submitted and released to schedule.
• Presenting the game to stakeholders and when called upon at press events.
• Co-ordinating the release of screenshots and demos with the marketing team and development partners.
• Liaising with the Community Support team making them aware of potential issues as well as helping them solve reported issues and updating them on fixes in the next release.

Requirements

• Good knowledge of Confluence, Jira, Office 365, and Microsoft Teams
• Understanding of how source control systems such as Perforce work.
• Excellent teamwork, with strong interpersonal and communication skills, particularly clear and accurate verbal, and written language, contributing to good working relationships throughout the Rebellion team and external partners.
• Perform well under pressure, able to schedule and plan ahead, setting and prioritising objectives, inspiring, supervising and delegating where necessary in order to deliver results.
• Self-confident and motivated, able to cope well and act decisively and sensitively under pressure.
• Determined to make both a great game and a great work environment.

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:  

• 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days) 
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision 
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover 
• Enhanced Family Leave  
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans 
• Enhanced Pension Scheme 
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support  
• Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!  

About Us 

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms. 

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being. 

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.