Lead Producer
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Occupation TypeProduction and process engineers
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£45,000
(£23.08 per hour)
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Description
Job Title
Lead Producer
Department
Production
Location(s)
Brighton
Reports To
Production Director
Job Type
Permanent
Who We Are
Home to the award-winning Mafia franchise, our team are united by passion for rich narrative storytelling, cinematic presentation and AAA craft.
We're looking for creative minds and driven professionals who share our love of story, style, and adventure. If you're ready to help shape the next generation of narrative driven games, we'd love to hear from you.
Job Summary
The Lead Producer owns a major project pillar such as Gameplay, World, Narrative, Tech, or Co-Development. They are accountable for planning, processes, staffing, risks, and delivery across the entire pillar. Lead Producers partner closely with Directors to translate creative and technical goals into executable development plans, while managing Senior Producers and serving as core members of the project's leadership team.
Duties And Responsibilities
Pillar Ownership & Strategy
Lead Producer
Department
Production
Location(s)
Brighton
Reports To
Production Director
Job Type
Permanent
Who We Are
Home to the award-winning Mafia franchise, our team are united by passion for rich narrative storytelling, cinematic presentation and AAA craft.
We're looking for creative minds and driven professionals who share our love of story, style, and adventure. If you're ready to help shape the next generation of narrative driven games, we'd love to hear from you.
Job Summary
The Lead Producer owns a major project pillar such as Gameplay, World, Narrative, Tech, or Co-Development. They are accountable for planning, processes, staffing, risks, and delivery across the entire pillar. Lead Producers partner closely with Directors to translate creative and technical goals into executable development plans, while managing Senior Producers and serving as core members of the project's leadership team.
Duties And Responsibilities
Pillar Ownership & Strategy
- Own the full planning and execution strategy for a major project pillar.
- Define pillar workflows, milestones, delivery structures, and quality expectations.
- Align pillar priorities with Directors, the Production Director, and the Executive Producer.
- Build and maintain multi-milestone plans, capacity forecasts, and long-range schedules.
- Lead Senior Producers and Producers across multiple domains within the pillar.
- Ensure alignment across Design, Engineering, Art, QA, Narrative, and other disciplines.
- Manage cross-domain dependencies and resolve high-impact risks.
- Drive decision-making around scope, trade-offs, and delivery approach.
Co-Development Leadership
- Set clear expectations, workflows, and integration points for co-development partners.
- Ensure external partners follow H13 task standards, documentation expectations, and communication norms.
- Manage cross-studio reviews, dependencies, and integration planning.
- Ensure pillar work aligns with overall product vision and player experience goals.
- Partner with Directors to evaluate design decisions, quality targets, and player impacts.
- Advocate for the player in planning, prioritisation, and trade-off discussions.
- Provide structured reporting to project leadership, the Production Director, and the EP.
- Represent the pillar in milestone reviews, project check-ins, and studio presentations.
- Maintain transparency and accuracy across Slack, Confluence, Jira / Flow, and planning tools.
- Mentor & Manage Senior Producers and support their development into future Leads.
- Encourage healthy, sustainable workflows across pillar teams.
- Support staffing decisions and hiring for the pillar.
- Promote a culture of clarity, accountability, and collaboration.
- Significant experience leading large discipline-led teams or multi-domain feature teams as Senior Producer.
- Strong strategic planning and risk management capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-disciplinary teams toward milestone delivery.
- Clear communication and influence with Directors, project leadership, and external partners.
- Strong understanding of player needs and system integration across the game.
Highly Desirable
As an equal opportunity employer, we are also committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation(s) to participate in the job application and/or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need to request reasonable accommodation.
SECURITY NOTICE - We have recently been made aware of increasing occurrences of bad actors posing as company HR personnel to gain information from "potential candidates", in the form of job interviews and offers. These scams can be quite sophisticated and appear legitimate.
Please know that Hangar 13 and 2K never use instant messaging apps to contact prospective employees or to conduct interviews.
If you believe you have been a victim of such a scam, you may fill out a complaint form at https://complaint.ic3.gov/ and https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ detailing as much as possible. We are taking these matters very seriously and apologize for any inconvenience.
- Experience delivering large-scale AAA systems or features.
- Familiarity with distributed teams and multi-studio development pipelines.
- Expertise in production process design and methodology.
- Experience managing Senior Producers and mentoring production talent.
- The pillar delivers predictably and consistently across all milestones.
- Teams maintain clarity, focus, and strong cross-discipline communication.
- Senior Producers perform effectively under Lead Producer guidance.
- Risks and dependencies are resolved proactively at the pillar level.
- Leadership trusts the Lead Producer to represent the pillar independently.
- Demonstrates readiness for Production Director responsibilities.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are also committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation(s) to participate in the job application and/or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need to request reasonable accommodation.
SECURITY NOTICE - We have recently been made aware of increasing occurrences of bad actors posing as company HR personnel to gain information from "potential candidates", in the form of job interviews and offers. These scams can be quite sophisticated and appear legitimate.
Please know that Hangar 13 and 2K never use instant messaging apps to contact prospective employees or to conduct interviews.
If you believe you have been a victim of such a scam, you may fill out a complaint form at https://complaint.ic3.gov/ and https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ detailing as much as possible. We are taking these matters very seriously and apologize for any inconvenience.