UI Artist | Art | London | Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

UI Artist

Hutch is looking for a UI Artist to join the team in London and deliver visually impressive free to play gaming experiences. We really value our players and you will be a key part of defining how they interact with our games. You will have a strong understanding of UI Art and Design and have an ability to create sleek, clean and stylish user interfaces. You should be collaborative with the ability to quickly understand and translate requirements into beautiful user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Designers and the Product Owner to prepare an excellent UI design
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and Art Director to define an appropriate UI art style
• Create high quality UI artwork and the associated source assets to match the sleek, high quality visual style of our games
• Creation of UI wireframe prototypes
• Work with client engineers to implement well functioning and bug free UI within Unity
• Design elegant UX layouts in conjunction with the design team, including wireframes and user flow
• Be required to attend regular design meetings and team presentations.
• Contribute to planning and scheduling

Requirements

• Proven UI Art experience within the games industry with a portfolio of work examples
• Strong logo and iconography design skills
• Experience of the design workflow, starting from paper level, through wireframes to functioning prototypes
• The ability to demonstrate a practical understanding of UX/communication design conventions and how they affect player behaviour and be aware of current and emerging trends
• Excellent visual design skills (sense of proportion, layout, graphical form, typography, colour, composition and negative space)
• Have a good sense of colour and composition, understand what looks great
• Technical proficiency with; Photoshop, Illustrator, Unity
• An interest in working on mobile games
• A desire to have a big impact within a small empowered team

Bonus Points

At Hutch we have very varied roles, so we’d welcome any of the additional skills but it is not a requirement

• Experience in VFX, 2D animation and motion graphics
• Experience with 3D art software such as 3DS Max, Maya, Modo or Zbrush
• UX prototyping design software such as Figma, Adobe XD or Flinto

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Games Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch Games uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

3D Artist / Art Generalist | Art| London |Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

3D Artist / Art Generalist

We’re looking for a 3D Artist / Art Generalist to join the team in London to create visually impressive props and environments for one of our hit games. You’ll join a cross-functional independent team that is empowered to make their own decisions.

You should be adaptable and motivated to produce quality artwork. You should have an expert knowledge of 3D asset creation and a broad range of digital art skills gained in either mobile or console games development. We strive for high quality visuals and look for people that want to achieve that on mobile.

Responsibilities

Here at Hutch we have small teams and like generalists who can work within a creative role covering a variety of tasks

• Create high quality environments, vehicles and props for mobile games
• Leverage a number of different skill sets to create quality art for one of our successful titles
• You will be embedded within a small cross functional game team, working closely with other team members in a fast paced and iterative environment

Requirements

• Great 3D skills in both high and low poly
• Comfortable modelling hard surfaces and organic forms eg buildings, cars, vegetation and rocks
• Texturing skills. We like to see the ability to create simple, clean looking textures without an over reliance on noise overlays or photo source
• Assemble & place assets in order to achieve strong scene composition.
• Be stylistically adaptable. Happy to change between different art styles according to the needs of the product.
• Lighting: A good understanding of lighting principles and experience with either in-game or pre-rendered tools
• Can demonstrate a good use of real time shaders. Familiar with setting up materials such as water, metals and vegetation
• Expert knowledge of a major 3D package such as Maya, Max or Modo
• Experience with sculpting packages such as zbrush or Mudbox

Bonus Points for any of the following

• Pre-visualisation: Preliminary and exploratory work including use of illustrations and basic 3D to explore composition.
• 2D vector art, graphic design, UI
• Experience with particle systems to create real time VFXs
• Motion graphics
• Camera work & composition
• Unity experience or a similar engine is highly desirable

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Senior 3D Artist | Art| London | Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Senior 3D Artist

We’re looking for an expert Senior 3D Artist to join the team in London and help set the standards for 3D within the studio. You will be proficient in both high and low-poly modelling, sculpting, texturing, lighting and a general expert of 3D pipelines and practices.

Day to day day you’ll create visually impressive props and environments for one of our hit games, within a cross-functional independent team that is empowered to make their own decisions.

In addition to practical skills, you should be able to work independently with minimal input from the AD, act on constructive criticism in a timely manner, show initiative and share your work regularly. As a Senior team member, you will lead by example, inspiring the team, sharing your knowledge and creating industry leading artwork. You’ll also support the Art Director with duties such as mentoring, feature breakdown and time estimations, so this is a great opportunity for a seasoned Leader or someone looking to develop in that area.

Responsibilities

Here at Hutch we have small teams and like generalists who can cover a variety of tasks, a selection of which we have listed below:

• Leverage a number of different disciplines to create quality art for one of our hit games
• Taking the initiative with your work, using good decision making skills and communicating/sharing your work regularly with the team
• Leading by example to the other Artists and been a great bastion of Hutch Culture
• Make best in class, bar setting environments and hero assets, inspiring the team
• Help the AD with tasks such as estimating, task management and documentation
• Mentor the team members and raise the expertise bar within the studio
• Potentially own projects outside of 3D modelling and texturing depending on the candidate

Requirements

• You're creative & passionate about games with proven games industry experience
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, agile environment, with the ability to change between different art styles according to the needs of the product
• Great communication skills with a passion to share your work, techniques and mentor artists
• You know how to create polished and distinct gameplay and environment assets with a great eye for silhouette and composition
• Excellent 3D skills in both high and low poly
• Experience with hard surface and organic modelling, cars, environment objects and landscape
• Texturing skills. We like to see the ability to create simple, clean looking textures without an over reliance on noise overlays or photo source
• Can demonstrate a good use of real time shaders. Familiar with setting up materials such as water, metals and vegetation
• A strong understanding of lighting principles and experience with either in-game and pre-rendered tools
• Understanding and experience in technical art and optimisation/technical constraints
• Expert knowledge of a major 3D package such as Maya, Max or Modo
• Experience with sculpting packages such as zbrush or Mudbox
• Being a key stakeholder in pipeline & work flow development

Bonus Points for any of the following

• Experience with written documentation such as style guides and mood-boards
• Experience with tasks such as estimating or mentoring
• Experience with particle systems to create real time VFX eg; explosions, waterfalls, impacts and ambient environment effects
• 2D vector art, graphic design, UI
• Motion graphics / Camera work & composition
• Unity experience or a similar engine is highly desirable

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Player Support Specialist | Customer Support | London | Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Player Support Specialist

Hutch are looking for a Player Support Specialist to join their team in London. You should be a great communicator and team collaborator that is passionate about games and supporting our community of platers. Players drive what we achieve and so engaging and supporting them is an essential role within the studio. You should have strong experience in community support and a passion to work at a company that is striving to be the best in the industry at CS. Hutch currently have a 90% CSAT rating, come and join a company that values its players as much as it’s people.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Customer Support Manager you will focus on Customer Support on one of our successful titles
• Respond promptly and professionally to customer enquiries including complaints and refunds when appropriate
• Being the first point of contact for VIP players, ensuring they receive a A+ service
• Be the face of the company – work with passion and integrity, being honest, polite and helpful to our players, building strong relationships and providing a superb service
• Provide feedback on the efficiency of the customer service process
• Initiate campaigns that will drive activity for high net worth customers, ensure that they are generated in a timely manner, results monitored and reported
• Work alongside game teams to plan and execute in game events and promotions
• Acquire knowledge of customers and build profiles including playing behaviours, interests, likes and dislikes and feedback to game teams
• Take on some supervisory responsibilities, including working out remote and outsource workers and helping with training and development

Requirements

• Previous and proven experience working within Customer support, ideally in a Senior role
• Past experience working in a fast paced and high demand environment with a large number of users and enquiries
• Experience working within games, mobile or tech in a fast paced and agile team
• Expert knowledge of CRM systems such as helpshift, zendesk or similar
• Excellent written English skills and the ability to communicate with a wide range of people both internally and externally
• Attention to detail and accuracy with the ability to dive deep into our games and externally represent the Hutch team

Bonus Points

• Previous experience within a Lead or Senior role, within the games industry
• Experience training and supporting outsource teams
• Prior knowledge of designing and building bespoke player support tooling
• Bi-lingual with a background in localisation
• Racing genre gaming fan

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Product Manager| Product| London| Full-time

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Product Manager

Hutch are looking for an experienced Product Manager with proven Free to play (F2P) games experience. You will join a cross functional game team, based in London and develop a successful Hutch title.

You should be collaborative, creative and self-motivating. You should have a strong understanding of games, Free to Play and Monetisation. You’ll be working closely within a development team, reporting into a Game Director helping to develop new features and systems.

Hutch supports their employees and helps them develop and grow. We would welcome candidates with proven Product Management expertise and we would also consider strong Designers or Analysts that would like to progress into a Product role.

Responsibilities

• Dive deeply into our game and develop an expert knowledge of the economy and systems
• Develop new features and systems for our mobile title that will improve monetisation, engagement, retention and virality
• Be a key player in the product development, strategic vision, and business operations of a mobile gaming title
• Explore the best opportunities for the game keeping an eye on commercial outcomes and player experience
• Own the data operation of your title, including the management/improvement of tools and technology and creating reports to communicate across Hutch
• Be an expert in understanding the players; identifying strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for growth in the game experience.
• Work with the developers to define, plan, and iterate game features to a high-quality standard.

Requirements

• Experience working on a successful mobile F2P game
• Experience of working in a live operation setting
• Strong understanding of game economy,
• Strong design mentality and intuition for game mechanics and the appeal of different game types
• Strong quantitative analysis skills and the ability to refine hypotheses/model by digging into user data and iteratively improving metrics
• Ability to write clear and concise specs for new features
• Ability to understand and think creatively about the most engaging and profitable game mechanics and themes
• Hands-on and impact-driven you focus on results and the desire to make the best games possible

Bonus Points

• A background in design and a deep understanding of balancing and systems is great, but not essential

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Technical Game Designer | Design | London | Permanent

We’re Hutch Games, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Technical Game Designer

Hutch is looking for a Technical Game Designer to join the team in London. Reporting directly to the Game Director, the Technical Designer will be responsible for crafting the core gameplay experience and ensuring it works in harmony with the wider F2P game structure. Our teams are small and autonomous, so you’d have the chance to work collaboratively and really impact the game and studio. We make racing games, so a desire to help us make the most engaging and successful racing titles in the industry would be ideal.

Responsibilities

• Help to craft core Gameplay experiences such as track design, car setup/handling, opponent design, progression balancing, customisation, cameras and more
• Contribute towards game design, including meta-game and economy decisions
• Work on a small game team, collaborating closely with other Designers, programmers, Artists and Analysts
• Work with a fast paced environment with a regular release cycle
• Responsible for balancing complex sets of game data

Requirements

• Previous experience working as a Designer within the games industry
• Strong understanding of monetisation and free to play mechanics
• Ability to work independently and efficiently as part of a small, fast-moving team
• Working hands-on and being the driving-force behind overall gameplay quality
• A strong collaborator, who is able to work collectively and iterate on ideas
• The ability to provide ideas and take direction
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with the Game Director and other team members to deliver your area of the game to the highest possible quality.
• A passion for mobile games

Bonus Points

• If you have a passion for cars, motorsport or racing, this would be a huge bonus
• Knowledge of Unity

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see company name Candidate Privacy Policy for details on how company name uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Server/Network Programmer| Development| London| Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Server Developer

Hutch are looking for a Server programmer to join the team in our central London studio. This will be a role designing, prototyping and developing server-based multiplayer game systems for our successful mobile games. This is an exciting role for someone who enjoys taking a lot of ownership for their work, would enjoy working in a high-load environment and the technical challenges that it presents. Our Developers work on a specific game team, closely with Artists, Designers and other programmers, allowing them to have a huge impact day-to-day and allowing them to have a lot of input into the development of the backend services for a successful game.

Responsibilities

• Designing, prototyping and developing server-based multiplayer game systems
• Working across synchronous and asynchronous gameplay, matchmaking, leaderboards, DLC and more
• Working very closely with designers, programmers and the technical director to solve the many challenges involved in creating a high quality, scalable, secure and performant online user experience in the most efficient manner possible
• Growing our multiplayer service into innovative new areas across new titles, using the latest technology to develop the most compelling online experience for our players
• Designing and building new online functionality in a maintainable, robust and flexible manner, ensuring scalability and readiness for rapid post-launch updates in response to customer feedback
• Writing tools where necessary to empower artists, designers and customer services to administrate the online services as much as possible
• Be actively involved in design discussions to make best use of technology

Requirements

• Previous and proven commercial experience as a server/network or backend developer, working in a high load environment
• Strong technical design and code skills in suitable Web technologies and frameworks, including JavaScript/C#/.NET, Node.js, Azure/AWS, SQL/NoSQL, Redis, DC/OS, Docker, Marathon, or similar
• Broad experience of server/network programming and principles, including database design, replication, load balancing, reliable/unreliable messaging, latency minimisation, security
• A passion for the latest Web technology, an interest in games a definite advantage

Bonus Points

• Games and/or Unity experience are desirable but not essential

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Senior Gameplay Programmer| Engineering | London | Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Senior Gameplay Programmer

Hutch are looking for a Senior Gameplay Programmer to join the team in our Central London studio. You will be working on one of our successful games within a small cross-functional game team. Collaborating with designers, artists and programmers, you will work in a fast paced and iterative environment working on challenges and problems around making, releasing and maintaining a successful mobile game. This role would suit someone who would like a lot of impact and autonomy, that likes being involved in the decision making process and someone who enjoys working quickly in an agile development environment. We look for people who want to bring their own ideas to the team who want to work across multiple areas and who enjoy the freedom and responsibility of the team owning their own decisions.

Responsibilities

• Working across a variety of tasks related to game programming Including; gameplay, player controls, game simulation behaviours, AI, meta-game behaviour, user interface, visual effects, audio effects, analytics hooks, and social features
• Designing and writing code in a maintainable and easily updatable manner, ready for post-launch updates in response to customer feedback
• Writing tools where necessary to empower artists and designers to make the game as much as possible, and providing mentoring and support to junior programmers
• Be responsible for the performance of the game, both frame-rate and memory usage
• Be actively involved in design discussions and prototyping

Requirements

• Strong technical design and code skills in either C# or C++
• Proven commercial games development experience within the games industry, we’re open to mobile, console and/or PC development experience
• At least 2 commercial titles developed from start to release, having gone through a full QA cycle, and preferably beyond post-release support developing updates or DLC
• A passion/interest for making mobile games and exploring new approaches to development within the Free to Play field
• A proactive nature, with a desire to have a big impact and take a lot of ownership for your work

Bonus Points

• Experience working with Unity is ideal

• Previous mobile games experience, working within a commercially successful studio

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Client Developer | Engineering | London | Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Client Developer

Hutch are looking for a Client Developer to join the team in our central London studio. You will be working on one of our successful games within a small cross-functional game team. Collaborating with designers, artists and programmers, you will work in a fast paced and iterative environment working on challenges and problems around making, releasing and maintaining a successful mobile game. This role would suit someone who would like a lot of impact and autonomy, that likes being involved in the decision making process and someone who enjoys working quickly in an agile development environment. We look for people who want to bring their own ideas to the team who want to work across multiple areas and who enjoy the freedom and responsibility of the team owning their own decisions.

Responsibilities

• Working across a variety of tasks related to game programming Including; gameplay, player controls, game simulation behaviours, AI, meta-game behaviour, user interface, visual effects, audio effects, analytics hooks, and social features
• Designing and writing code in a maintainable and easily updatable manner, ready for post-launch updates in response to customer feedback
• Writing tools where necessary to empower artists and designers to make the game as much as possible, and providing mentoring and support to junior programmers
• Be responsible for the performance of the game, both frame-rate and memory usage.
• Be actively involved in design discussions and prototyping

Requirements

• Strong technical design and code skills in either C# or C++
• Proven commercial games development experience within the games industry, we’re open to mobile, console and/or PC development experience
• At least 2 commercial titles developed from start to release, having gone through a full QA cycle, and preferably beyond post-release support developing updates or DLC
• A passion/interest for making mobile games and exploring new ways of making development within the Free to Play field
• A proactive nature, with a desire to have a big impact and take a lot of ownership for your work

Bonus Points

• Experience working with Unity is ideal
• Previous mobile games experience, working within a commercially successful studio

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Campaign Manager - Performance Marketing | Marketing | Dundee | Permanent

We’re Hutch a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Campaign Manager - Performance Marketing

Hutch are looking for a Campaign Manager - Performance Marketing to join the team in Dundee. This is a high impact role, working on the activities that directly generate revenue for our studio. Day to day you should be comfortable around data and numbers and a great collaborator, taking strategic direction from UA Managers and working with the broader marketing team. You’ll be working closely with an experienced User Acquisition team who will provide coaching and mentoring to ensure you have all the skills and knowledge you need to execute this role and develop your career. This great opportunity to develop professionally in this rapidly growing and in demand discipline.

A Campaign Manager at Hutch works within the Growth and Insights team and they are responsible for User Acquisition. This is the number of users that our games have and the revenue that is generated through them. Campaign managers work across different networking channels and within the app stores to test and refine what the consumer sees related to Hutch games, that ultimately makes them play our games. The goal of the team is to make our games appealing and increase the player base. This is an exciting field that is varied and constantly evolving and offers and exciting career path for the right person

This role would suit a recent Graduate or someone that is looking to learn and develop more within performance marketing.

Responsibilities

• As a Campaign Manager, your task will be to run UA campaigns that maximise profit across multiple titles on channels such as: Facebook, constantly testing and refreshing
• Managing, analysing and optimising campaigns to ensure that we are maximising the number of players we acquire
• Work closely with the UA Managers who will provide strategic direction, mentoring, support and training around budget controls, targeting and quality

• Make detailed creative briefs and work closely with the Marketing art team on creative optimisation and generating new creative art work for our campaigns
• Building daily and adhoc reports around typical UA KPIs such as daily spend and ROI
• Keeping up to date with the field in order to exploit new opportunities
• You will also help with App Store Optimisation
• Over time help to refine our approach to measuring true ROAS

Requirements

• Degree in Economics, Business, marketing or something similar
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent knowledge of Excel
• Passion to work within games, with an idea of what makes mobile games succeed or fail and who the audience might be.
• You have previously played a Hutch game and can talk about what you like and dislike
• A curious nature, your driven to discover underlying explanations of things, just for fun and you can think of creative solutions to problems

Bonus Points

• Previous experience running campaigns on Facebook, Google Ads and other networks
• Comfortable running and optimising multiple campaigns
• Experience in statistics, or modelling, or other such generally useful techniques
• Knowledge of SQL or any similar languages

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Games Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch Games uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Game Analyst | Analytics | London | Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Game Analyst

Hutch is looking for a Game Analyst to join the team in London. You should be a data driven person that obsesses about details. You should also be a great collaborator and communicator, with the ability to explain complex data and concepts to other people. You’ll be working closely within the game teams to analyse and offer predictions for our existing and in development games.

Responsibilities

• Work in a highly impactful role at a studio that values data, through collaboration with the game teams to analyse data and enable them to make data driven decisions
• You’ll estimate impact and prioritise different initiatives such as (retargeting/reactivation, CRM, churn prediction, Ad LTV modelling
• Create models to predict word-of-mouth/k-factor uplift for each game
• Run a regression to sense-check a 3rd party’s estimate of Ad LTV
• Work with the marketing team to test and optimise retargeting/reactivation campaigns
• Consult with game analysts to identify analytical opportunities across all our games

Requirements

Requirements

• Previous, proven experience working as an Analyst/in an analytical role
• You’re deeply comfortable with numbers. Your instinctive approach to any problem is to quantify it first. You always notice when news reports fail to contextualise numbers
• Your analysis has led to quantifiable improvements
• Excellent knowledge of SQL
• Proficiency with Excel

Bonus Points

• Experience with one or more data tools/languages – Excel, Python, R
• Interest in games and an understanding of what makes games fun
• Experience of great visualisation using tools such as Tableau, Looker or something similar
• Experience in statistics or modelling

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Senior Games Marketing Artist |Marketing| London | Permanent

We’re Hutch a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Senior Games Marketing Artist:

Hutch is looking for a Senior Marketing Artist to join the team in London. This is a rare and exciting role for someone who wants to create visually stunning art. You’ll spend your days making glossy, polished, high quality visuals for both internal and publicly facing customers. You’ll have the time and resources to lavish on creating visually stunning pieces that showcase our new and existing games. Our teams are small and autonomous, and as a Senior team member you’ll have the ability to work independently and help coach others on the team.

Responsibilities

• Create high quality artwork that showcase our games and story to a global audience
• Work with Art Directors and creative stakeholders across our portfolio of games to create dynamic digital art for marketing, branding and presentations
• Contribute to ideas at an early stage of the visual design brief, providing thumbnails and mock-ups.
• Ensure all assets are at the required quality level and adhere to the artistic style and identity of the game
• You’ll work across a variety of mediums such as; graphics, ad creatives, posters, videos and more allowing for a broad and varied role
• As a Senior you’ll help coach the team around 3D and Rendering best practices
• You’ll help the Art Director with tasks such as; requirement gathering, scoping, estimating and task management

Requirements

• You should be a high quality render / marketing artist with world class composition and paint abilities
• Have solid foundational art skills and are able to iterate quickly and efficiently
• A comprehensive understanding of compositional rules and values including form, weight and space
• Able to demonstrate a solid understanding of colour theory
• A good feel for the effects of light and atmospherics.
• An understanding of outdoor lighting and an ability to create depth and atmosphere within an image
• An understanding of how to use materials and surfaces (e.g. car paint shaders)
• A curiosity for new techniques and the ability to adapt your workflow and render styles for multiple projects
• Experience with 3D software packages and tools
• You’re great at collaborating and communication, with the ability to build great relationships with internal and external teams

Bonus Points

The roles at Hutch are varied, it is great if you have any of the following skills, but not essential

• Experience of Maya and V-ray
• Experience with Motion graphics packages such as After Effects or something similar
• Previous management experience

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

2D Marketing Artist | Marketing | London | Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

2D Marketing Artist

Hutch are seeking a 2D Marketing artist to work within our marketing team, supporting our portfolio of successful mobile games. Our marketing team works closely with the games teams, to promote, showcase and make our games a success. It is a fast-paced and ever developing discipline that plays a huge part in the success of our Studio allowing a huge impact and sense of achievement.

You will work closely with marketing and product teams to create a wide variety of stunning visual work that will show off our games, for marketing purposes, which will be seen by millions around the world

We are looking for a self motivated, pragmatic and iterative person who thrives on the ability to be creative and is happy to engage with the brand guidelines. You will have a passion to work on mobile games and to immerse themselves in the marketable positioning of each game.

Responsibilities

• Work on Hi-res 2D promotional banners for iTunes and Google Play, Game icons, in-game promotions
• Compile and edit marketing videos using captured gameplay footage amongst and other assets
• Compose images, icons and videos using vehicles, characters, logos, environmental elements and gameplay footage to create stunning visual work
• Work quickly, iteratively and collaboratively with the marketing and games teams taking the time to understand briefs and take onboard feedback

Requirements

• Previous experience working as a Marketing artist with an up to date portfolio
• 2D art skills including excellent sketching and drawing
• Strong understanding of foundational art such as compositional rules and values
• Innate sense of colour and the ability to demonstrate a solid understanding of colour theory
• Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Creative including Photoshop, illustrator and After Effects

Bonus Points

• Knowledge of Unity
• Previous experience with 3dMax or Maya
• Experience using Illustrator

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Producer | Production | Location | Permanent

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Producer

Hutch are looking for a Producer to join the team in London. You should be a great collaborator and team member, believing that Producers help make the teams lives easier. You should have a strong understanding of project management techniques and the ability to work within an agile environment. Our teams are empowered to do great things and the Producer is an integral part of ensuring things run to plan and budget.

Responsibilities

• Own the agile process. Being responsible for running daily scrums, fortnightly sprints, retrospectives and planning sessions
• Run retrospectives to evaluate and improve the working processes with the team.
• Identify, surface and manage risks
• Work with the team to create a feature roadmap and project schedule, setting workable and realistic deadlines. Own and manage the schedule throughout development
• Have budgeting responsibilities ensuring things stay on plan and on budget
• Work with the team on performance management and development opportunities.
• Liaising with other teams internally and externally such as marketing, outsourcers and localisation teams, to ensure priorities are communicated
• Manage and monitor the team culture and health ensuring people are happy, healthy and harmonious

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Producer or equivalent in video games, preferably in mobile free-to-play, running as a live service
• An understanding of the mobile F2P business & mobile development
• A deep understanding of agile and scrum development

• Strong emotional intelligence and a genuine interest in caring about your team and ensuring that people come first over project goals

• Great communication skills to communicate in the team and across the studio

Bonus Points

• Experience with Jira is preferred, for task and bug tracking, running sprints and managing workflows
• An understanding and appreciation of lean development principles and how to implement them
• A love of cars, motorsport and things with wheels!

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Friday night drinks and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

Senior Systems Programmer | Engineering | Canada| Permanent

We’re Hutch Games, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 280 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Senior Systems Programmer

Hutch is looking for an experienced Senior Systems Programmer to join the team in our Nova Scotia studio in Canada. We’re a small team that supports the games teams with tools and technology, to enable our games to run and be successful. This is an exciting and varied role, working on tools and technology across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, tvOS, Amazon) using the Unity engine. The team has a lot of autonomy and the ability to make a big impact in an already successful studio.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with game development teams in London, UK and the technical team in Nova Scotia to solve the many diverse technical challenges involved in developing multiple titles on multiple platforms
• Tackling a wide variety of technology challenges including, but not limited to, platform ports, automated testing, server development, third-party sdk integration, analytics, social-networking, advertising, and platform-specific features
• Creating tools and services for teams such as UA, including working with SDK’s and analytics
• Designing and writing code in a maintainable and easily updatable manner, ready to be used by programmers in the London Studio on multiple game titles both existing and in the future
• Documenting systems delivered such that they can be used by remote programmers who may not have any prior knowledge of the system.
• Working closely with stakeholders to ensure clarity of requirements and appropriateness of design. Delivering incremental solutions and seeking feedback to ensure transparency at all times. Adjusting priorities or design approach to changing ideas or business needs

Requirements

• Previous commercial experience working in a complex technical environment
• Strong software design and code skills, preferably in C# or C++
• A keen interest in creating technology to help other developers with a service mindset
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with remote teams
• A degree in Computer Science or something similar

Bonus Points

• Unity, console, PC or mobile game development experience would all be pluses, but not necessary if the candidate demonstrates a propensity to be able to learn new technologies.
• Experience with Javascript
• Prior knowledge of web services

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our Canadian office is based in the beautiful coastal town of Mahone Bay, NS with our HQ based in Shoreditch, London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with:

• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salaries
• Stock Options
• Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, and vision care
• Pension - Matched RRSP contributions
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Reduced Rate Gym membership
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, Friday drinks, team lunches and much more

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/