Executive Producer - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Jagex

Jagex
Jagex
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Cambridge, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Jagex is the home of the iconic massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape and its family of adventurous titles. We are a leading games studio that places our players at the heart of everything we do. Together we are building deep and engaging multiplayer gaming experiences for players everywhere.


Jagex has recently begun expanding into publishing, teaming up with development partners (internal and external) who share our passion for deep, community-driven games, to partner with them to bring their games to market and build sustainable communities of passionate fans.

Due to this, we're overhauling our Publishing Platform, E-commerce, Accounts, Data Platform and Marketing Technologies to improve the player's experience and improve the value of the customer throughout their journey.

The Executive Producer is accountable for Jagex's Publishing Platform, including the Account System, E-commerce, Launcher and Social Services. These products are critical to the continued success of RuneScape, Old School RuneScape and the new unannounced titles. This is an opportunity to modernise the Publishing Platform enabling Jagex's current and future portfolio.


What you'll be doing:


Product

  • Management of profit & loss for the product to ensure we invest at the right levels to maximize ROI in the correct time frame.
  • Responsible for stakeholder management. For overall collaboration/partnering with the different products/services to ensure the proper balance of the individual games in order to amplify the overall portfolio.
  • Creation of a thematic goal, 3year strategy/value and delivery plan.

Leadership

  • To enable a culture of transparency and the ability for everyone to understand how their work relates across the value chain in a consumable/easytounderstand fashion.
  • Responsible for ensuring we can deliver on the needs of the business through our people by creating an environment where they grow, develop and succeed.

Technology/Governance/Risk Management

  • Balance risk with feature delivery to ensure we keep players and the biz at the heart of everything we do. PCI/GDPR etc
  • Firm understanding of technology and architecture to help align integrations with Jagex games and the platform.

What we're looking for:


  • High level of business acumen (managing a profit/loss) on a playerfocused product(s) in the gaming industry
  • Proven experience leading/building highperforming teams
  • Tshaped leader that has expertise in business, product, technology, production and product management so the individual can properly balance those capabilities for an optimal outcome. (More experience in the different areas the better)
  • Experience building Gaming Platforms that make games more successful and players happier is a huge plus
  • Integration experience of games into platforms is another huge plus

What success looks like:


In the first 3 months, you'll build trust with the platform teams, the leadership team and product owners, EP's and product managers across the studio.

As well as the platform's capabilities and the portfolio's needs.

In 6 months, create/update a three-year-creation plan and delivery strategy. Ensure the platform is delivering and learning on its commitment. Continue to take strides in creating/enabling high-performing teams.


In 12 months, you will execute and deliver on the strategy while continuing to optimise the ROI for the platform and portfolio.


About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers.

We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.


We create spaces for our players to come together - with each other and with us - inside and outside of our games.

We empower our players with real influence on the game's evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they're playing, creating loyal forever fans.


These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers.

Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community.

We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.


We have 500 of the industry's most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we'd love to talk to you.

Worried you don't meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let's talk.

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