The Creative Assembly is the development team behind the hugely successful Total War franchise. From Shogun, through to Rome, Empire and now Napoleon: Total War; The Creative Assembly have continued to develop an award winning series of titles. Recent releases include the acclaimed Viking: Battle for Asgard on console and the epic Napoleon: Total War on PC.

 

The studio has won a host of major industry awards for past and present titles and recently received a BAFTA award for ‘Best Strategy Game’ an outstanding achievement in a competitive industry.

 

The studio has a strong historical record and a unique combination of vision and talent combined with the backing of one of the world’s largest publishers, SEGA. This partnership allows Creative Assembly to craft some of the most exciting and immersive games available today.

 

 

 

The role of Associate Producer is to work alongside and assist the producer managing the development of a game project from pre-production to release.

 

The successful candidate will assist with the day to day, and week to week process of managing a cross discipline game team.  The associate producer will be able to provide support to keep the project moving forward, and the team positive, informed and focused whilst keeping momentum. The role will also require working with the project leads to generate milestone schedules, identify dependencies, and prioritise work.

 

 

The role will also require the development and fostering of positive relationships and cohesiveness within the team and other relevant third parties including internal relationships with Sega.

 

 

Required:

 

·        Organised, driven and self-motivated.

·        Able to Identify/assess risks and strategies to mitigate.

·        Project management experience with a good understanding of scheduling, planning, tracking and resource allocation.

·        Problem solver. You will be aware of potential and current issues and formulate plans to solve them.

·        Pragmatic – you understand making games is complex, and you can weigh up the priorities when everything is high priority.

·        The ability to cope well and perform under pressure working to strict deadlines.

·        Excellent written and oral communication skills.

·        Always looking for ways to improve our process, team or project. Determined to make a great game and work environment.

·        Ability to handle the high stress of working and delivering to schedules.

·        Enthusiastic with a genuine passion for action games.

·        A team thinker - able to work within a team and to actively work to make that team perform cohesively.

·        Excellent working knowledge and experience of all MS Office applications.

 

Advantage:

·        Experience with MS Project

·        Experience with Agile/Scrum

·        Previous experience working with

o       QA

o       Localisation

o       Outsourcing

o       Perforce

o       Wikis

o       SharePoint and office macros

·        Good Presentation skills.