Executive Producer
Build A Rocket Boy
Remote
Posted on Mar 17, 2025
As our new Executive Producer, you will lead the strategic vision and execution of innovative user-generated content tools, ensuring the successful development and delivery of high-quality experiences. You will oversee production pipelines, manage multiple teams, and drive cross-functional collaboration to align with business goals. This role requires a proactive leader with a deep understanding of game development, strong project management expertise, and the ability to balance creative ambition with production efficiency.
- Department
- Production
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Remote
- Workplace type
- Fully remote
- Reporting To
- Deborah Harpur
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Vision
- Define and drive the overall production strategy, ensuring alignment with company objectives and creative vision.
- Oversee multiple production teams, establishing clear goals, priorities, and roadmaps for successful execution.
- Partner with leadership to set project scope, timelines, and key deliverables, ensuring the highest quality standards.
- Identify opportunities for innovation and process improvements to enhance production efficiency and team effectiveness.
Production Oversight & Execution
- Own the production pipeline, optimizing workflows and ensuring smooth development across all phases.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks, ensuring projects remain on schedule and within budget.
- Establish and maintain clear production tracking and reporting processes to provide transparency and accountability.
- Drive Agile methodologies and best practices to maximize team productivity and output.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication
- Act as the primary liaison between development, design, engineering, and executive leadership to ensure alignment.
- Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including partners and vendors.
- Champion clear, consistent communication across teams, ensuring alignment on objectives, milestones, and priorities.
- Lead key production meetings, including sprint reviews, retrospectives, and status updates, ensuring follow-through on action items.
Team Leadership & Culture
- Mentor and develop producers, empowering them to take ownership and drive results.
- Promote a positive, collaborative, and high-performance production culture.
- Ensure teams are properly resourced and structured for success, optimizing talent allocation and workload distribution.
- Advocate for team needs and provide strategic guidance to support their growth and development.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in game production, with a proven track record of shipping successful projects.
- Extensive experience in a senior production role (e.g., Senior Producer, Lead Producer, or Executive Producer).
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence, inspire, and align teams toward common goals.
- Deep understanding of game development processes, Agile methodologies, and project management tools (JIRA, Trello, MS Project).
- Experience managing multiple teams, large-scale projects, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to balance creative vision, technical feasibility, and project constraints.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
Benefits
Our Global Benefits & Perks
- Unlimited coaching & therapy — with Oliva, to support your mental health
- Stock Options — everyone owns a piece of our success
- Pension scheme — up to 5% employer matched contribution to finance those golden years
- Socials — office & remote events, play sessions and company-wide parties
- And even more benefits based on your location!
If you’re based in the UK
- 25 Annual Leave + 8 bank holidays - we’re flexible with most bank holidays so you can use the time to celebrate what’s important to you
- Private Medical Insurance - full cover with AXA
- Healthcare Cash Plan - Level 3 cover with Medicash
- Cycle2Work Scheme - lease a bike through us and save on tax too!
- Electric Car Charging - electric car charging at our Port office in Edinburgh, Scotland.
About Build A Rocket Boy
Build A Rocket Boy is an independent game developer, headquartered in Edinburgh Scotland, with operations in Budapest Hungary, the Netherlands, France, and California USA. Led by game developer Leslie Benzies, Build A Rocket Boy’s team includes hundreds of the industry’s brightest development talents with the shared vision to create new and innovative entertainment experiences. Build A Rocket Boy’s first project is EVERYWHERE – a new multi-world game experience that blurs the line between reality and the digital world.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Applied
Stage 2:
Review