Senior Development Manager

Join Creative Assembly and craft deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.

The role

This is an excellent opportunity for a talented Senior Development Manager to join the sequel to ALIEN:ISOLATION being built in Unreal Engine 5 (UE5).

This role will be based at our headquarter in Horsham, in the heart of West Sussex.

You will work with cross-discipline leads and other Development Managers to balance scope with capacity, track progress, implement and improve processes, people management, and mitigate risks while upholding and maintaining a quality bar.

This role can be offered as fully in-studio or hybrid with an expectation of 2 days a week in our Horsham studio. This role cannot offer fully remote working. Further details can be discussed during the recruitment process.

What you’ll be doing

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

• Facilitate teams of developers running them through their project life cycle stages
• Be accountable and drive the delivery of your strike teams and assigned key processes
• Oversee planning, execution and delivery of work assigned to the teams you are responsible for against project schedules, identify production risks or constraints, and troubleshoot dependency problems
• Facilitate communication between the project teams, leads and other producers
• Actively optimize and improve work methods and tracking and database management to drive team efficiency
• Stay aware of industry standards, both in terms of methodology and quality, and help team members stay on par or ahead of them when necessary.

What we are looking for

• Experience in development management (ideally in the games industry)
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Positive attitude with a team-oriented mindset
• Motivated individual with the capacity to learn new skills, use new tools, and meet new people
• Knowledge of production management software tools – Atlassian is essential, but ideally also Miro, Perforce, and PowerBI
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience of planning during pre-production

ABOUT CREATIVE ASSEMBLY

We care deeply about the experiences we create and put our players at the heart of our decisions. We are all game makers; no matter our role we are empowered to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities.

Most roles at Creative Assembly are hybrid; what this looks like will be discussed during the interview process. For many teams, this is 3 days a week in the studio. CA has the right to change requirements based on the needs of the business.

Benefits

• Work from Anywhere for a temporary period each year (restrictions apply such as VISAs)
• Enhanced holiday allowance, maternity and paternity breaks, flexibility with our core hours, and no-notice holidays
• Bespoke relocation package for you and your dependents
• Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening
• Additional benefits ranging from free games and work parties to discount on technology
• Wellbeing support and virtual confidential counselling

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Our studio sites have disabled access.