Production Intern

Who We Are:

Gram Games is the studio behind popular titles like 1010!, Six!, Merge Dragons!, and Merge Magic!, with more exciting projects in the pipeline. We are proudly part of the Zynga & Take-Two Interactive family. We do things differently here: we work in small self-managing teams, giving you an incredible amount of ownership, autonomy, and impact. 

At Gram, everyone is expected to have a razor-sharp focus on creating a tangible impact on their team, their work environment, and on the overall company strategy. If you are motivated by autonomy, constant improvement, collaboration, and a sense of belonging, this is the place for you.

Position Overview:

Love the process of making great games? Do you like to help guide others through the process from concept through to managing live games? We are looking for a Production Intern to join us at Gram Games and partner with our producers on all aspects of production

You will be a driving force within your team, assisting them with planning and execution to achieve the highest quality. You will empower your team to deliver an outstanding game with high quality, on budget, and on time.

Come join us! You’ll find a dynamic and engaging culture while being a key driver in rapidly delivering features to our players.

Duration: 12 Months

What You’ll Do:

• Planning & Execution: Working with design, product management, feature teams, leadership, and partner teams, you will ensure clarity of the team’s goals, work with stakeholders and the team to set backlog priorities, and foster ownership of these goals within the team.

• Communication & Leadership: Facilitate and ensure clear communication, written, verbal, and visual, between disciplines, teams, and individuals. This includes transparent progress, status, and risk reporting, as well as quantitative production delivery metrics. You are adept at keeping everyone in sync with plans and any updates as they happen.

• Release Management: Ensure high-quality releases by working with QA, Development, Design, Art, Product, and other teams to make sure our releases are well-defined, clearly communicated, high-quality, and compliant with all requirements.

• Process Improvement: Craft the right processes for the team. Work with your team’s senior leadership to iterate on processes through team input and continuous exploration.

What You Bring:

• Recent graduate (having completed an undergraduate or postgraduate degree within the past 12 months) in Game Development, Game Production, Game Technology, Computer Science, Business, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Effective at driving order out of uncertainty, with excellent prioritization and decision-making skills.

• Influential across both in-person and written communication channels.

• Effective in one-to-one as well as one-to-many communication.

• Effective team collaborator and meeting facilitator.

• Experience with development methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, or Kanban.

• Experience with project status and risk reporting.

• Basic understanding of planning tools (such as Atlassian Jira, Airtable, Smartsheet, AI tools, etc.).

• A real passion for games.

• Ability to work hybrid from the Gram Games London office at least two days a week.

How to Apply?

You can apply with your CV, cover letter, and a portfolio or showcase of your work, such as game jam projects, personal builds, or team case studies. We encourage you to highlight your role in facilitating team collaboration, project organization, and feature planning across both team and solo projects.

Your cover letter should address the following:

• Why would you like to do an internship with Gram Games?
• Why have you chosen this specific internship?

Benefits

In return for bringing your expertise to this top-priority role, we offer some of the best benefits in the gaming industry!

• Paid internship, with a competitive salary
• Private medical and dental care
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats
• Life insurance and the right to opt into our pension scheme
• Access to digital health care services
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization.  Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic - not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at [email protected] to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.

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