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Senior Producer (Live Service)

Secret Mode

Leamington Spa, England

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The role, as advertised by Secret Mode

  • Take production ownership of several live-service titles across PC and console.
  • Work with external development partners to establish clear roadmaps, update cadences, milestones and delivery plans.
  • Support games transitioning from traditional premium releases into sustainable live-service models.
  • Coordinate the delivery of updates, downloadable content, seasonal content, quality-of-life improvements and platform releases.
  • Ensure project plans account for development, QA, localisation, age ratings, platform submissions, certification, marketing and community requirements.
  • Track schedules, scope, budgets, dependencies and team capacity across multiple concurrent projects.
  • Identify project and portfolio-level risks early, establish clear mitigations and escalate issues when necessary.
  • Lead regular project meetings and ensure decisions, actions and responsibilities are clearly communicated.
  • Build strong, constructive relationships with external studios while holding teams accountable for agreed deliverables.
  • Work closely with Commercial, Marketing, Community, Creative, QA and Platform teams to align development priorities with wider publishing plans.
  • Use player feedback, community sentiment, performance data and commercial priorities to help inform live content roadmaps.
  • Support release readiness, launch planning and the management of live incidents or urgent post-release issues.
  • Provide clear and concise project reporting to the Head of Production and wider leadership team.
  • Support other producers, strengthening their development and providing oversight across their projects.
  • Act as a senior point of contact for the Production team, providing guidance and decision-making support when required.
  • Help improve Secret Mode’s live-service production processes, planning standards and ways of working.
  • Significant experience in game production, including experience at Senior Producer level.
  • Strong experience delivering and operating live-service games.
  • Experience working across PC and console platforms.
  • A track record of shipping games, major updates or downloadable content through the full development and release lifecycle.
  • Experience managing multiple projects, releases or development workstreams simultaneously.
  • A strong understanding of live-service planning, including content roadmaps, release cadence, ongoing support and reactive development.
  • Excellent project-management skills, with the ability to turn high-level goals into clear, realistic and measurable plans.
  • Confidence assessing schedules, challenging assumptions and identifying delivery risks.
  • Experience line-managing, mentoring or developing other producers.
  • Strong stakeholder-management skills and the ability to communicate clearly with people across different disciplines and levels of seniority.
  • A collaborative but decisive approach, with the confidence to lead difficult conversations and drive projects towards clear outcomes.
  • A practical understanding of how development, QA, platform, marketing, community and commercial teams contribute to a successful live game.
  • The ability to remain calm and organised when managing changing priorities, live issues and competing demands.
  • A willingness and ability to work from our Sheffield office two days per week.
  • Experience working within a games publisher or managing relationships between a publisher and external development studios.
  • Experience with console certification, platform submissions and release management.
  • Experience transitioning an existing premium title towards ongoing live development.
  • Experience delivering multiplayer or online games.
  • Knowledge of downloadable content, cosmetic content, player progression, retention, monetisation or seasonal content models.
  • Experience working with co-development partners, porting studios or outsourced development teams.
  • Experience using player data, telemetry and community feedback to inform development priorities.
  • Experience working across different genres, team sizes or live-service models.

    • This role at a glance

    This is one of 34 production and leadership roles open in England today, out of 546 live games jobs across the UK, and Secret Mode is hiring for 3 other roles alongside it. Going by the title it’s a senior role, usually asking for several years’ experience and shipped titles. Like most UK games roles it doesn’t publish a salary, and too few production and leadership roles do for a fair comparison. Our salary guide covers typical ranges.

    Discipline
    Production/Leadership
    Level (from the title)
    Senior
    On gamesJobs since
    22 Sept 2026
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    About Secret Mode

    Secret Mode is an independent games publisher based in Leamington Spa. It was set up within Sumo Group, and in March 2025 its leadership, including co-founder James Schall and publishing vice-president Ed Blincoe, bought the business from Sumo with backing from the investment firm Emona Capital.

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