About the role
About the role
Secret Level Studios is seeking an experienced, highly organised, and proactive Producer to drive the delivery of current and upcoming projects. This is a hands-on production role requiring excellent organisation and communication skills combined with a deep understanding of game development. The Producer will work with the Creative Director, team leads, and development team to plan and deliver projects, align priorities, manage scope, remove blockers, and maintain focus on quality. The role acts as the primary point of contact for publishing partners to ensure clear communication, alignment, and transparency. The ideal candidate has shipped commercial games and is comfortable balancing creative ambition with production constraints, risk identification, and collaborative decision-making. The role involves shaping the production culture of the growing independent studio.
Responsibilities
Project Leadership
- Own the day-to-day production and successful delivery of multiple game projects.
- Manage sprints, Jira projects, backlogs, and production planning activities.
- Build and maintain realistic production schedules, roadmaps, and milestone plans in collaboration with the Creative Director.
- Work with studio leadership to ensure production plans align with project budgets and resource constraints.
- Build and maintain a strong working relationship with publishing partners, ensuring delivery against agreed priorities, milestones, and commitments.
- Identify production risks early, develop mitigation plans, and make informed recommendations on scope, priorities, and trade-offs to protect quality and delivery.
- Drive projects forward while maintaining transparency, accountability, and clear communication across the studio.
Development Management
- Act as the central point of communication between design, programming, art, QA, leadership, publishing partners, and off-site freelancers.
- Ensure all stakeholders have a clear understanding of project priorities, responsibilities, milestones, and deadlines.
- Facilitate productive meetings, remove blockers, and ensure clear decisions, ownership, and follow-up actions.
- Foster a collaborative, supportive, and enjoyable development environment and culture.
- Establish and maintain production practices that support sustainable, predictable, and high-quality game development.
- Monitor project health, schedules, and key production metrics to identify trends and support informed decision-making.
- Maintain clear visibility of project status, communicating progress, risks, and priorities to internal stakeholders and publishing partners.
- Contribute to long-term studio planning across multiple projects and support studio growth.
- Help shape production strategy, processes, and ways of working as the studio evolves.
- Represent the studio in production discussions with publishing partners.
Requirements
Essential skills & experience
- Proven experience as a Producer, Senior Producer, Development Manager, or equivalent production role within a game development team.
- Proven track record of shipping one or more commercial game titles.
- Strong understanding of the full game development lifecycle, from concept through to release.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary game development teams.
- Experience managing project scope, schedules, risks, dependencies, and milestone delivery.
- Excellent communication, organisation, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and prioritisation abilities.
- Ability to balance creative ambition with production realities while maintaining project quality and delivery goals.
- Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid production methodologies.
- Passion for creating memorable games and player experiences.
Highly desirable
- Passion for game design and a desire to be involved in game design choices.
- Experience working within independent or AA game studios.
- Experience managing multiple game projects simultaneously.
- Experience working closely with publishing partners or external development teams.
- Experience working within milestone-driven game development and publisher/developer production processes.
- Experience supporting teams through game launches and post-launch development.
Important to us at SLS
- Teams always have a clear understanding of priorities, goals, and what success looks like.
- Risks are identified early and addressed before they impact delivery.
- Development schedules remain realistic, achievable, and aligned with project goals.
- Scope is actively managed to protect quality, delivery, and team wellbeing.
- Healthy discussion and constructive challenge are encouraged.
- Communication across the studio and with publishing partners is clear, consistent, and transparent.
- Production processes enable teams to do their best work without unnecessary overhead.
- Team members feel supported, informed, and empowered to deliver outstanding games.
About Secret Level Studios
Secret Level Studios is an independent game development studio based in Letchworth Garden City. They develop original IP alongside co-development projects for PC and consoles.
What we offer
- Competitive salary (depending on experience).
- Flexible hybrid working.
- Company pension.
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
- Opportunity to shape the production culture of a growing independent studio.
Location & working arrangement
The role follows a hybrid working model:
- Two days per week in the Letchworth Garden City office (Tuesday and Wednesday).
- Three days per week working remotely.
- Candidates must be comfortable working within this arrangement.
How to apply
Send your CV and portfolio to jobs@secretlevelstudios.com. Include your current location and confirm your availability for the hybrid working model.