Senior Art Producer

It’s a really exciting time to be at Space Ape Games. We’ve created a fast-paced environment that promotes genuine autonomy and we have projects at all stages of the development cycle. We launched our hit music game, Beatstar, in 2021 and we’re following its success with Countrystar less than two years later. We also officially launched our first puzzle game last year, Chrome Valley Customs, and we’re preparing to scale this game to global success. On top of all this, we’re running several mature live games and working on some exciting new projects behind the scenes!

We seek a passionate, talented, creative producer to help with all aspects of art production and development. Working across a wide portfolio of new, in-development and live titles, you will be responsible for content pipelines, schedules and building key relationships with external partners. Alongside the Studio Art Director, you will be crucial in maintaining a healthy art culture and artists' personal development, growth and well-being. 

Responsibilities

• The building and maintaining of art production pipelines, both internally and with our external teams
• To find new art production partners, coordinate with existing collaborators and take on prominent aspects of partner management from contract negotiations
• Facilitate the art production schedules - partnering with art, product and marketing teams to define the scope and verify all asset requests are scheduled
• Provide transparency on art production status and communicate frequently with the rest of the production team/leads on asset status, risks, and problem-solving opportunities
• Schedule team meetings and run art reviews (as well as in-game content reviews) while providing actionable notes and follow-up info to attendees
• Provide mentorship of artists, helping set goals and providing feedback
• Motivate and provide support to the art team, contributing to a positive environment and culture through organising training, events and the improvement of existing rituals
• Facilitate communication, organisation, processes and pipelines across art disciplines

• 3+ years as a producer, project management or equivalent experience
• Experience in supervising production pipelines
• Solid understanding of creative pipelines, approval processes, and dependency chains.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Self-starter - Someone who can approach challenges creatively and see things through to their final resolution
• Ability to build, track, and maintain feature and content schedules
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Familiar with Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall project management methodologies
• Be able to give feedback internally and externally in a professional manner

Why Space Ape is right for you

• Be a part of one of several small empowered teams who inspire and challenge one another in the pursuit of our mission
• Autonomy to make your own impact with the support to help it happen
• Designated ‘Ape Space’ creative time where you are free to work on game concepts and ideas away from your day to day
• The freedom to further your skill set the way you want with a generous training budget
• An award winning studio that has been crowned one of the best places to work, for the last 5 years in a row!
• Help run and create games which bring joy to millions of players all over the world
• 5* Glassdoor rating - Check out our reviews 
• Entered a long-term strategic partnership with Supercell in 2017
• Competitive salary & stock options

About Space Ape:

Space Ape is an award winning mobile game studio in Central London and founded in 2012. Since then our five games have been played by over 170m people, generated half a billion in revenue but we're just getting started. We are around 150 employees, from 30 different nationalities and diverse backgrounds united in a mission to make the world's next great game. In 2017 we partnered with Supercell (makers of Clash of Clans etc and part of Tencent) by way of majority acquisition.

Our music game, Beatstar, reached #1 download in 24 countries and is the top grossing music game globally. With BILLIONS of song plays and millions of people discovering it each month Beatstar is an important new platform for music discovery with top artists releasing their songs in Beatstar on the same day, or in some cases before, they are dropped on streaming platforms. If country music is more your thing check out Country Star, a recent follow up to Beatstar that might be more your thing.

Chrome Valley Customs brings an innovative twist to cater to a large underserved segment of the world's most successful game genre. Within the first two months it became the top grossing car game globally and we're just getting started.

Space Ape was voted Best Game Developer, and Beatstar Game of the Year in the 2022 Pocket Gamer Mobile Game Awards in BAFTA London (April 2022). Its game lead Charmie Kim won Best Newcomer at the DEVELOP Awards (July 2022), and it was short listed as one of Google Play User Choice Awards (Dec 2021). Space Ape won Mobile Developer of the Year in the Pocket Gamer Awards (2023).

Benefits

• Be a part of one of several small empowered teams who inspire and challenge one another in the pursuit of our mission
• Autonomy to make your own impact with the support to help it happen
• Designated ‘Ape Space’ creative time where you are free to work on game concepts and ideas away from your day to day
• The freedom to further your skill set the way you want with a generous training budget
• An award winning studio that has been crowned one of the best places to work, for the last 5 years in a row!
• Help run and create games which bring joy to millions of players all over the world
• 5* Glassdoor rating - Check out our reviews 
• Entered a long-term strategic partnership with Supercell in 2017