Head of IT in Oxford

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION! For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We are on the lookout for an exceptional Head of IT to lead our IT function, shape our technology strategy, and build strong partnerships across the business. This is more than a technical leadership role. We are seeking an authentic and visible leader who can inspire teams, build strong relationships with key stakeholders, and ensure technology enables creativity, innovation, and business success across our studios.

You will be responsible for the strategic direction, operational excellence, and continuous improvement of IT services, ensuring our infrastructure, systems and support functions meet the demands of a fast-paced and highly creative environment, where technology is at the heart of everything we do.

• Define and deliver Rebellion's IT strategy and roadmap, ensuring technology aligns with business objectives, supports growth, and drives innovation.
• Provide clear, authentic leadership that develops and inspires a happy, high-performing IT team, while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a trusted advisor and partner to senior leaders and stakeholders, building strong relationships and translating business challenges into effective technology solutions.
• Lead the delivery and ongoing management of infrastructure, networks, cloud platforms, systems, and end-user services across multiple locations, ensuring availability, scalability, and performance.
• Ensure IT services are reliable, secure, scalable, and user-focused, driving continual improvement in service delivery, operational performance, and user satisfaction.
• Drive security, risk management, business continuity, and disaster recovery initiatives to protect the organisation, its assets, and intellectual property.
• Manage IT budgets, procurement activities, vendor relationships, and third-party providers to maximise value, performance, and commercial outcomes.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement by identifying and implementing new technologies, processes, and best practices that enhance efficiency, productivity, and creativity.

• Significant experience in a senior IT leadership role, with responsibility for strategy, multi-site operations, and people management.
• Proven ability to lead, develop, and inspire high-performing technical teams, with a passion for developing people and building relationships.
• Experience defining and delivering IT strategies, roadmaps, and transformation programmes that support business objectives and growth.
• Strong technical expertise across infrastructure, networking, cloud services, security, and end-user computing.
• Demonstrable success in improving IT service delivery, operational performance, and user satisfaction.
• Experience leading security, risk management, and business continuity initiatives in complex environments.
• Strong commercial awareness, including budget management, procurement, vendor management, and delivering value from third-party providers.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust and partner effectively across the organisation, ideally within a creative, technology, or game development environment.
• Any experience working within recognised service management, controls and project management frameworks (such as ITIL, COBIT, ISO 27001, Prince2, Agile or similar) would also be advantageous.

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including: 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days) Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover Enhanced Family Leave Interest Free, Tax-Free loans Enhanced Pension Scheme EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.

Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces. Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city’s train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.

Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers