Senior Producer in London

About Tencent

Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life of people around the world. Founded in 1998 with its headquarters in Shenzhen China, our guiding principle is to use technology for good.

We are not only a major video game publisher in the world, we also produce other high-quality digital content, enriching interactive entertainment experiences for people around the globe. We offer a range of services such as cloud computing, advertising, FinTech, and other enterprise services to support our clients' digital transformation and business growth.

About IEG

Interactive Entertainment Group (IEG) is responsible for the R&D, operation, and development of the company's interactive entertainment business including games and eSports. Through online gaming, live broadcasts, and offline eSports, IEG assists the company in leading the global interactive entertainment market to create better interactive entertainment content experiences for users.

About the role

The Senior Producer will play an important role as part of Tencent Games’ second-party production team. You will build great relationships with our game studio partners and collaborate with them to deliver AAA titles across multiple-platforms. You will contribute to the overall strategy of the second-party team and help drive the strategy forward. You will manage AAA games through all development stages, from initial concept design right through to commercial release and post launch support/live-ops.

As a Senior Producer, you will manage and coach production staff, educating on production methodologies and internal processes. With a good background in Games as a service or having mobile experience, you will be educating teams on how to successfully deliver GaaS games and how they are managed successfully in the live environment.

Together, we will help our studio partners make great games!

Within this role you will:

• Work with one or more external UK/European based studios, including frequent travel
• Drive quality in a collaborative and constructive way
• Work with the teams to setup and understand the key KPI’s that will be used to measure the games’ success both ahead of and after launch
• Ensure that the development team understands GaaS components of a game and are structured to successfully deliver these games to our players
• Work with the development teams to ensure that they are setup to deliver and manage a game in a live service environment, so that the game is regularly updated with new content being delivered to players.
• Act as an internal product champion
• Be involved in strategic product planning, franchise and lifecycle management
• Ensure effective processes are in place for project tracking, including milestone reviews and feedback
• Be responsible for planning production in line with contractual obligations, budget, scope, timelines and quality standards
• Prepare and regularly communicate project status information to management
• Liaise with our partner team in China HQ including travelling to China as and when required
• Support the external development team to help them do their best work, in a satisfying and sustainable manner
• Represent games titles at industry events globally

To be successful you will have:

• 6+ years’ games production experience, shipping multiple titles
• An excellent understanding of what is required to build and deliver AAA titles and franchises
• Outstanding organizational skills and ability
• A track record of successful completed projects