Head of Publishing -£ Competitive market related package – This is an amazing opportunity for an Expert Marketer to drive the publishing strategy and operations.

The Role

The VP of Publishing is responsible for the development and deployment of integrated publishing strategies for Cambridge Venture’s game development studios, portfolio companies and clients. The VP of Publishing will be responsible for Advertising, PR, Community, BI, Market Research and Digital reporting in to him/her for Asian, European and US territories.

Desired Skills and Experience

The Person:
• 8-10+ years of increasing responsibility in marketing in industries including but not limited to Telecoms, Online Retailing and videogames
• Expertise in data-driven marketing
• Experience working with big impact and progressive brands
• Ability to take learnings from Publishing functions and helping the development team make requisite improvements in the game
• Proven Leadership skills
• Can develop and maintain great working relationships
• Facilitates partnership and collaborative working.
• Can shape outcomes through influence.
• Should be able to handle various pressure situations and workload through proper work balance, prioritisation and delegation.
• ‘Have done, Can do, will do’ approach
• Positive attitude & high degree of professionalism
• Keen understanding and passion for the videogames market
• Ability to lead, build and motivate a high performance team
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills

Head of Analytics & Market Research – £ Competitive market related package – This is an amazing opportunity for an experienced analytics and market research manager for building an integrated framework of data sciences and market research tools for driving actionable recommendations towards ROI improvement for our games and publishing initiatives.

The Role

The head of analytics and market research will lead the data and analyst team in building analytical frameworks for identifying opportunities, deconstructing and solving commercial problems and putting in place an actionable KPI reporting structure for Cambridge Venture’s game development studios, portfolio companies and clients.

Desired Skills and Experience

The Person
• 6+ years of experience of managing analytics team within the online/mobile games space.
• A masters degree in marketing from a top global university
• Deep understanding of online games metrics.
• Demonstrated experience and high proficiency in market research methods (CSI, Conjoint Analysis, Scientific surveying methods etc.)
• Degree (postgraduate preferred) in statistics, mathematics, or similar fields; or equivalent
• Deep understanding of statistics, including experimental design for optimisation (e.g. split / multivariate testing on the web) and a variety of predictive analytics techniques: Bayesian methods, support vector machines, principal components analysis, graphical models, supervised and unsupervised learning, clustering, regression, Monte Carlo Method etc.
• Experience leading a small team or the desire to manage a team of data scientists and market research analysts.
• Experience applying advanced statistical techniques to real-world application
• Knowledge of SQL and at least one data processing language, such as Python or R
• Ability to create and discuss complex models in detail, and to translate these choices into a business objectives discussion with business leaders
• Ability to identify and prioritize the analysis that will be most impactful for each product and for the business overall
• Proven ability to lead, build and motivate a high performing team
• Client focused with strong analytical skills.

Manager PPC and Social – £ Competitive market related package – This is an amazing opportunity for a Manager PPC and Social to drive PPC and Social advertising strategy.

The Role: The Manager for PPC and Social will collaborate on the digital marketing strategy and operationalize it with the Director of Digital Marketing. This individual will be an avid learner with growing expertise in PPC (Google, Bing, Yahoo!) and Social (Facebook, Twitter, Tinder) based advertising. The individual will be managing PPC and social campaigns: organizing asset delivery, setting up campaign targeting and making sure they are able to deliver value for Cambridge Venture’s game development studios, portfolio companies and clients.

Desired Skills and Experience

The Person

• Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent
• 2 -3 years of experience in PPC and Social Media advertising ideally within media agency but will consider other backgrounds
• Solid background in Google Analytics
• Performance reporting and analysis of ongoing campaigns, with the aim to continuously improve reporting
• Keen understanding and passion for the videogames market
• A good grip on various automation platforms like Kenshoo and Nanigans
• Ability to take learnings from PPC and Social campaigns and helping the development team make requisite improvements in the game
• Strong analytical skills and ability to improve ROI

Manager Video and Display – £ Competitive market related package – This is a great opportunity for a Manager Video and Display to drive rich media advertising strategy and operations.

The Role

You will be responsible for the day to day running of a range of existing and new Video and Display marketing campaigns ensuring they remain fully optimised whilst also tracking and analysing their profitability on a daily basis.
You will also be expected to research new marketing avenues to increase their exposure for both the existing services as well as researching new potential products and territories to expand the revenue channels.

Desired Skills and Experience

The Person

• Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent
• 2 -3 years of experience in Video and Display advertising ideally within media agency but will consider other backgrounds
• Understand the best practices in the Digital advertising marketplace
• Solid background in Google Analytics
• Performance reporting and analysis of ongoing campaigns, with the aim to continuously improve reporting
• Keen understanding and passion for the videogames market
• A good grip on various automation platforms like Data Xu, Kenshoo and Nanigans
• Ability to take learnings from rich media campaigns and helping the development team make requisite improvements in the game
• Strong analytical skills and ability to improve ROI

Senior Data Warehouse Administrator – £ Competitive market related package – This is an amazing opportunity for an experienced Data Warehouse Expert to be a part of the next big thing.

The Role

Development, deployment and maintenance of a Hadoop data warehouse. Owner of entire BI infrastructure across our development studios and portfolio companies.

Desired Skills and Experience

The Person:
• Preferably a PhD Degree in Computer Sciences.
• 5+ years as a Data Analyst and Data Warehouse Administrator
• Experienced in automated data aggregation and replication of live/production data
• Proactive monitoring, maintenance and capacity planning.
• Defining data retention policies.
• HDFS and MapReduce administration.
• Hive administration.
• Deployment and administration of a PostgreSQL data warehouse – Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Debian Linux, LVM, Perl and Bash advantageous
• Development of automated reports and alerts – SQL, Perl, Bash and Procmail.
• Managing and maintain data feeds to external partners – Apache HTTPD, SFTP, SCP/Rsync, SQL, Perl and Bash.
• Monitoring of essential services
• Strong appetite for R&D projects
• Top-tier user support.
• Experienced System administration.
• Should be highly passionate about programming.
• Should have strong work ethics.
• Should be a team player.
• ‘Have done, Can do, will do’ approach
• Keen understanding and passion for the video games industry
• Ability to lead, build and motivate a high performance team

Head of Community Engagement – £ Competitive market related package – This is an awesome opportunity for a Community Engagement Manager for developing and executing a community engagement strategy and operations.

The Role

The community engagement manager will collaborate on the publishing strategy, develop community engagement roadmap in line with marketing initiatives and coordinate with marketing and development functions for execution. The ideal community manager will enable the integration of community feedback into product management and directly contribute to key commercial KPI’s.

Desired Skills and Experience

The Person
• 8-10+ years of experience in online games community management and player support.
• A deep understanding of online game communities, player behavior across different games segments, building and managing community forums, tracking community sentiment and fostering feedback towards improving player satisfaction.
• Sound understanding and ability to track and take action on key community management metrics including CSI, Sentiment surveys and NPS.
• Demonstrated success in integrating community feedback towards driving product improvements and scaling revenue, player acquisition, churn reduction, ARPPU improvement etc.
• Keen understanding and passion for the video games market
• Ability to lead, build and motivate a high performance team
• Client focused with strong analytical skills.

Senior Developer – £ Competitive market related package – This is an amazing opportunity for an Expert Game Developer to be a part of the next big thing.

The Role

Own, drive and maintain the strategic roadmap across commercial, production and development teams. Primary responsibilities will include rapid game development, programming, debugging and testing. The role will involve working closely with game designers, artists, other iOS and Android developers, and backend API developers.

Desired Skills and Experience

The Person:
• Preferably a Bachelors Degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent.
• 5+ years of hard core development including but not limited to games and backend API’s.
• Extensive programming experience in Java, C, C++, C# and/or Objective-C.
• Experience with Unity3d, CryEngine, Unreal Engine or previously built proprietary AAA game engines
• A solid foundation of computer science concepts with a deep understanding of data structures, algorithms and software design.
• A firm understanding of client-server networking.
• Should maintain high quality code and be familiar with source control.
• Should be highly passionate about programming.
• Should have strong work ethics.
• Should be a team player.
• ‘Have done, Can do, will do’ approach
• Positive attitude & high degree of professionalism
• Keen understanding and passion for the video games market
• Ability to lead, build and motivate a high performance team
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills

Senior 3D Artist – £ Competitive market related package – This is an amazing opportunity for a 3D artist to create high quality content for our games.

The Role

Can you build and texture awe-inspiring 3D environments and characters? We’re looking for a highly creative, self motivated artist with solid 3D modeling, texturing, and lighting skills for environments, characters and prop work.

Desired Skills and Experience

The Person:
• 5+ years of experience using Adobe Photoshop and 3d Studio Max/Maya.
• Have experience with real time shaders.
• Know their way around Unity 3d.
• Ability to take direction well and bring out the best in others
• Self-starter, self-motivated and takes accountability and ownership of projects from start to finish.
• Have excellent artistic skills and the ability to adapt to different artistic styles.
• Have a great understanding of the rigging and animation for characters.
• Should have an excellent eye for detail.
• Should have solid technical understanding of game asset creation and its dependencies, and can be pro-active in working together with other disciplines.
• Positive attitude & high degree of professionalism.
• Keen understanding and passion for the video games market
• Ability to lead, build and motivate a high performance team

Tools:
• Adobe Photoshop.
• 3D Studio Max.
• Maya.
• Marmoset toolbag.
• Quixel suite.
• Any sculpting package :Mudbox/Zbrush/3dcoat (preferably zbrush or mudbox)

Data Scientist – £ Competitive market related package – This is an awesome opportunity to lead the design and delivery of Data Science tools and analysis which will drive insight, improved decisions making and greater player engagement with our games.

The Role

The Data Scientist will be tasked with using advanced analytics to make sense of and produce insight & trends from Player and Game Data.

The Data Scientist will be responsible for finding, understanding, explaining, and using deep data relationships through the use of complex models and predictive analytics to drive player engagement and pinpoint development effort.

Desired Skills and Experience

The Person:
• 4+ years of experience of building complex models or algorithms in a procedural or functional language.
• Deep understanding or passion for games.
• A strong numerate academic background i.e – Maths, Stats, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Economics, etc.
• Programming / Scripting experience with languages such as Python, C++, R, Matlab, Java etc.
• Experience of Database technologies such as – MySQL / SQL Server etc.
• Any experience of machine learning / Algorithm Design is a plus.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Experience applying advanced statistical techniques to real-world applications.
• Ability to create and discuss complex models in detail, and to translate these choices into a business objectives decision with business leaders.

Job Description

Cambridge Venture Partners is looking for a highly skilled Unreal Engine Developer to work on an exciting new and original IP for console and PC.

The ideal candidate will have an in-depth understanding of the Unreal Engine at the C++ level, as well as with the Unreal toolset and production pipeline. In addition, they will have hands-on experience of the technical procedures required to take a product through the full development life cycle, from the prototyping stage to shipping a finished product on both console and PC. They will also provide architectural oversight across the entire application.

As an experienced Unreal engineer, the ideal candidate will be able to create clean and efficient solutions to problems and have the ability to clearly explain and demonstrate their approach to colleagues in order to educate other team members on technical aspects of Unreal. As a member of this dynamic and high-performing team, you will work closely with the Art and Design teams to help materialise concepts whilst balancing the need for robust and resilient systems in the long-term.

The ideal candidate would have the industry knowledge and a passion for games. The position is home based with team meetings in Cambridge, UK.

Skills and Requirements

• 5+ years industry experience of games programming

• 3+ years industry experience of C++ programming in Unreal Engine

• Shipped at least one triple AAA game title or multiple other titles using Unreal Engine

• Excellent understanding and knowledge of Unreal Blueprints

• Ability to modify and build Unreal Engine source code

• Proven experience of developing for and publishing onto console platforms (PS4, Xbox One) using Unreal Engine

• Excellent understanding of at least 2 of the following disciplines in Unreal Engine:

• Graphics/Rendering

• Audio

• Physics

• Online subsystems and game session management

• Multiplayer game systems, networking and replication (including ReplicationGraph)

• Editor tooling and automation

• Good working knowledge of git

• Excellent communication and collaborative problem-solving skills

PLUSES:

• Working knowledge of C#

• Experience with python scripting

• Experience of cloud-based hosting technologies, e.g. AWS/Azure/Google Compute or similar

• Passion for competitive gaming, Esports or live events

Qualifications

• Computing / Development related degree or ability to demonstrate equivalent work experience

To apply

• The role is home based with regular meetings in Cambridge.

• Send your covering letter, CV and portfolio to [email protected]

About Cambridge Venture Partners

The Cambridge Venture Partners is a team of passionate game developers located in Cambridge, UK. 

It’s an exciting time to join PlayFusion as we embark on our journey of creating an exciting and original fps with broader ambitions in multiple entertainment spaces.

We’re a diverse group of veterans with decades of experience working at multiple award-winning studios on a vast range of titles on PC, console and mobile.

Job Description

Want to work with an awesome team on an exciting next gen AAA FPS?

Even in these uncertain times, the awesome talent at Cambridge Venture Partners is expanding! We’re looking for a highly-skilled, driven and deeply creative Art Producer to work on an exciting new and original IP for console and PC.  You will be a senior member of the leadership team helping to set and maintain a coherent art vision for the project as well as working with production to effectively plan art team delivery.

We’re looking for someone with an exceptional eye for detail, creative flair and the ability to convey the artistic vision to the team whilst understanding its impact on the development lifecycle. 

If you understand the importance of delivering and establishing an artistic vision that enhances and supports the creative direction, game design, product and marketing strategy, then we’d very much like to hear from you.

The ideal candidate would have good industry knowledge, game development experience and a passion for games. Whilst the position is based from home, there are regular meetings in Cambridge, UK.

Sound like your thing? Then come join a highly experienced team on this incredibly exciting and unique project.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with Art Director to define, own, and champion a mature semi-realistic AAA vision

• Manage multidisciplinary art teams giving actionable constructive feedback

• Produce Art Direction visuals, pitches, guides and documentation

• Work with Production to plan and prioritise Art deliverables

• Facilitate and lead art reviews for internal and external teams

• Actively participate in the recruitment of project team members 

• Regularly update the leadership team on status and progress

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Portfolio demonstrating Art Production capability

• End to end game development experience

• Working knowledge of modern game development workflows 

• Proven experience formulating and developing IP

• Strong leadership skills leading by example

• Willingness to adapt to an evolving environment

• A passion for playing and making games

• A highly positive and proactive work ethic

• A creative eye and aesthetic judgement to help drive and critique visual quality

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and organisational skills

BENEFICIAL SKILLS:

• Familiarity with the capabilities and limitations of Unreal Engine

• Experience collaborating with 3rd parties in an outsource capacity

TO APPLY

You must be eligible to work in the UK.
The role is home based with regular meetings in Cambridge.

Send your covering letter, CV and portfolio to [email protected]

ABOUT Cambridge Ventures

The Cambridge Venture Partners is a team of passionate game developers located in Cambridge, UK. 

It’s an exciting time to join PlayFusion as we embark on our journey of creating an exciting and original fps with broader ambitions in multiple entertainment spaces.

We’re a diverse group of veterans with decades of experience working at multiple award-winning studios on a vast range of titles on PC, console and mobile.