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Executive Producer

Build A Rocket Boy

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