Nathan Peters

Animator – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAPDuration: 18 MonthsLocation: 1-2 days in Twycross & 3-4 days working from homeRate: £300 - £332 per day PAYESummary:Technical animators are responsible for supporting the technology used to play animations in game. As part of the Technical Animation team, you will work directly with the Engineering team, and you will support the Art, AI, and Game teams to build animation systems for runtime. You will be using Unreal to create higher standards of animation across a wide variety of our clients’ unique and stylised characters. They are also invested in ongoing R&D into new and emerging animation technology. This role is a real opportunity for a problem solver with a creative technical mindset.Skills:Several years of experience working as technical animation in the videogame industry (doesn’t have to be Triple AAA)Unreal Engine experienceExperience in Animation blueprints (Locomotion)Demonstrable experience in the development of locomotion and character control systemsProved ability to work on engine animation blueprints including overlaying, IK, control rigs or similar technologies.To have completed at least one full game development cycleDemonstrated good collaboration skills.Demonstrable ability in the use of revision control softwareResponsibilities:Work with design and engineers to understand and implement gameplay animation features.Support engineers and game teams to fix game issues, troubleshooting animation graphs and artwork.Be aware of the performance issues and be responsible for performance improvements.Participate in R&D into emerging animation technologies.Advise and create tools to improve workflows and asset quality.Support engineers and game teams to fix game issues, troubleshooting animation graphs and artwork.Desirable Skills:Knowledge of 3D maths and creative problem-solving skillsProgramming or scripting skillsExperience with motion matching and other data driven systems

Site Reliability Engineer – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAPDuration: 18 MonthsLocation: RemoteRate: £300 - £329 per day PAYE Summary: As an SRE your main purpose is solving for scale through collaboration and automation, bringing engineering principles to infrastructure and operational problems. You will work closely with the different teams to help improve manual tasks, operational processes, lower complexities & risks, break down team silos through improved communication and really get involved with them to reinvent how they work to help them succeed.You will work with a scaling platform, maintaining its programmable infrastructure and maximising the availability of the workloads that run on it, both at a live production & deliverable lifecycle level.With constant improvement and automation as core principles, a lot of this role is thinking about inefficient and time-consuming things that are happening and putting a stop to them as soon as possible. You will always arrive at most problems by saying “I’m going to take the time to automate this right now and stop anyone else from having to do this painful thing”Skills:Experience within C#, Azure, DevOps & BicepManaged/implement large scale distributed server systems within Azure.Worked on modern release pipelines – CI/CD (Octopus Deploy/Azure DevOps/TeamCity)Knowledge of Azure monitoring, alerting, message queuesUnderstand or worked within an Incident Management Process (ITSM)Responsibilities:Minimising downtime to products & servicesEnsuring the platform is stable, scalable, and completely automated.Helping to improve and shorten development/process lifecycles.Applying effective monitoring & alerting in placeSupporting release through stable and automated pipeline processes

Marketing Associate – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAP Duration: 12 Months Location: 3 days per week in London office, 2 days per week remote workingRate: £245 - £300 per day PAYE Summary:Our client is looking for an exceptional Partner Enablement Manager to take on a key role in driving our channel marketing strategy & execution with EMEA mobility partners like Vodafone. Reporting to the Director of Partner Enablement for EMEA, this experienced channel leader will be responsible for all marketing operations for bringing all RL products and services to market, including retail/channel marketing budgets, experiential programs, customer acquisition and retention, and measurement while continually improving our toolset and processes to meet our goals. You will need to feel comfortable in a fast-paced environment with democratized information and working across Product Management, Business Development, Marketing, and Operations teams and at the same time, working with our customer’s cross functional leadership teams. Responsibilities:Develop go-to-market EMEA retail channel marketing strategy in concert with our RL Category and Product Marketing teams.Focus on building programs that optimize awareness, trial and conversion and retention of our clients’ users across multiple products and services.Lead & execute marketing and merchandising initiatives with EMEA retail partners within agreed upon budgets and KPIs Continuously measure, manage, and optimize marketing programs to drive efficiency recommending tools development and processes as necessary to achieve these goals innovation.Oversight and management of channel co-marketing and OPEX budget, focusing on performance and delivering against agreed upon metrics.Present key marketing programs to retailer partners, executives, and business development teamsManage content & campaign activities across retailers ensuring our content meets brand standards and is in service of overall strategy.Always be innovating and partnering.Identify new channel marketing opportunities in EMEA and in partnership with other geographic leaders and position these opportunities for review to drive to a decision.Coordinate and manage marketing elements of regularly scheduled marketing reviews e.g. (Quarterly Business Reviews) including regional share, context & performance across our business channels and partners.Deliver and receive candid feedback on both sales/marketing metrics and personal performance.Key Skills:4 years’ experience in a Channel Marketing or similar fieldCandidates should have a demonstrable achievement and success with a consumer technology brand.4 years’ experience in building go-to-market strategies, planning and execution across digital and physical retail channels.4 years’ experience working directly with online retail partners with demonstrable knowledge of key advertising metrics and programs. CPC (Cost per Conversion), CPA (Cost per Acquisition), LTV (Lifetime Value) and ROAS (Return on Advertising Spend) as examples.Knowledge in Gross Margin Return on Investment (GMROI), inventory turns, etc.Demonstrate presentation skills.Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Economics, or related fieldExtremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail, able to detect inconsistencies and errors.Experience managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors.Highly effective at managing conflict.Can address issues between stakeholders swiftly to maintain a positive team spirit that is consistent with Facebook values.Strong interpersonal skills, approachable and flexible.Experience with navigating various organizational environments where culture and structure vary.Understand how to create and manage project trackers.Excellent communicator, superb verbal, and written communicationExperience with challenger/new business technologies that have changed the way human beings work and socialize e.g., Uber, Nest, Apple iPad.Creative/ Design background a plusExperience within a brand executing a direct-to-consumer physical retail strategy.Experience in bringing projects from concept.

Site Reliability Engineer – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAP Duration: 18 Months Location: Remote Rate: £300 - £332 per day PAYE Summary: As an SRE your main purpose is solving for scale through collaboration and automation, bringing engineering principles to infrastructure and operational problems. You will work closely with the different teams to help improve manual tasks, operational processes, lower complexities & risks, break down team silos through improved communication and really get involved with them to reinvent how they work to help them succeed. You will work with a scaling platform, maintaining its programmable infrastructure and maximising the availability of the workloads that run on it, both at a live production & deliverable lifecycle level. With constant improvement and automation as core principles, a lot of this role is thinking about inefficient and time-consuming things that are happening and putting a stop to them as soon as possible. You will always arrive at most problems by saying “I’m going to take the time to automate this right now and stop anyone else from having to do this painful thing”Skills:Experience within C#, Azure, DevOps & BicepManaged/implement large scale distributed server systems within Azure.Worked on modern release pipelines – CI/CD (Octopus Deploy/Azure DevOps/TeamCity)Knowledge of Azure monitoring, alerting, message queuesUnderstand or worked within an Incident Management Process (ITSM)Responsibilities:Minimising downtime to products & servicesEnsuring the platform is stable, scalable, and completely automated.Helping to improve and shorten development/process lifecycles.Applying effective monitoring & alerting in placeSupporting release through stable and automated pipeline processes

Art Producer – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAP Duration: 6 Months Location: Remote Rate: £375 - £450 per day PAYE. Summary:The main function of an Art Producer is to drive execution of Horizon Worlds initiatives by defining and maintaining processes and systems that create team efficiencies, proactively communicating with stakeholders, and coordinating demands across multiple projects. As an Art Producer for Horizon Worlds, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and experiences, helping shape the future of virtual reality. Responsibilities:You will be responsible for coordinating Art team projects from start to finish, ensuring that they are completed on time and within budget, outlining operating processes to maximize team collaboration and efficiency, and supporting RL Art initiatives. This includes working with a team of talented artists, art directors, technical artists, and cross-functional teammates, such as designers, product managers, and engineers, to create immersive and engaging experiences for users.Engage with the art and cross-functional teams to define the art scope for key features within various projects.Partners with Lead Art Producer to create and execute processes that help the art team run efficiently and smoothly.Proactively identify and mitigate production risks while executing against ambitious targets.Create schedules and communicate updates to partners.Confirm scope with stakeholders, Art Producers, Art Managers, and Artists.Coordinate with external vendors and outsource teams for critical milestones, visual targets, and content development.Initiate and manage vendor contracts/purchase orders.Track asset pipeline, releases, and versioning that pertain to content developed by outsource and internal art teams.Support team culture, operational improvements and wider Reality Labs Art as needed, including support for team onsite.Key Skills7 years’ experienceProgram manager within either gamming/AR, VR/VFXStakeholder managementExcellent communication skillsTechnical or creative production experience or combination of both Experience with Game, Animation, or 3D pipelines for content creation and development 5 years’ experience working in a studio environment, with preference for Games, Animation, VFX Post-Production or 3D Asset focus.Nice to have SkillsGaming technical animation pipeline knowledgeVR AR3D

Client Solutions Manager – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAP Duration: 12 Months Location: 3 days in London & 2 days working from home Rate: £337 - £400 per day PAYE Summary: The main function of a Client Solutions Manager is to partner with client partner to identify, create, and implement marketing solutions.Skills:5 years’ experience, familiar with Meta’s Business Manager suite of Ad solutions Proven track record in performance and brand marketing.Expertise in analysing data from a variety of different sources (quantitative and qualitative), presenting the data in a clear and concise manner, and developing actionable insights.Proven track record in storytelling through data visualization, developing data-driven hypotheses and driving learning plans to build compelling business cases and influence key decisions.Responsibilities:This is an outstanding opportunity to build and manage key relationships, serve as a consultative product expert, and lead media planning, strategy, and measurement to some of our highly performance-driven top clients in the Travel portfolio.With a passion for marketing, this role is responsible for building executional and functional partnerships, using data sets and analytics to detect performance patterns and to translate them into comprehensive solutions and strategies that deliver on our client’s business objectives, whilst driving growth in innovative ways.Sales operational rigor, updating internal sales trackers and revenue and forecasting.Performance analysis on the ads manager platforms to check the campaigns are preforming.Running analysis and reports on campaigns and measurementRunning and leading calls with media agencies and leads.Preparations for senior clientsClients they will work with airlines and accommodation – BA, easy jet, Hilton, Marriot, CSM only accounts, secret escapes and haven holidays and hotels.

UX Researcher – HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAP Duration: 10 Months Location: RemoteRate: £320 - £400 per day PAYE Responsibilities:Work closely with product and business teams to validate research topics Design and execute end-to-end custom primary research using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research methods.Influence cross-functional partners to build with user-centricity.Develop and execute research roadmaps.Contribute to product strategy, execution and go-to-market plan Partner with researchers, content & product designers, data scientists or engineers, product managers and software engineers.Key SkillsFoundational research experienceStatistical evaluation experienceUsability testing5 years’ experienceWorked with a Big Tech company in the past.5 years’ experience executing hands on primary research with a strong rasp of quantitative and qualitative methods.

IT Asset Manager – OUTSIDE IR35 – SC CLEARANCE REQUIREDStart date: ASAP Duration: 12 Months Location: 2 days per month in Portsmouth rest of the month working from home Rate: £450 per day OUTSIDE IR35SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREDSummary: The IT Asset Manager is responsible for overseeing and optimising the lifecycle management of the organisation's diverse IT asset portfolio, including hardware (such as computers, mobile devices, and peripherals) and software. The role involves ensuring the efficient acquisition, deployment, maintenance, and disposal of IT assets while adhering to organisational policies, budgetary constraints, and regulatory requirements. The IT Asset Manager plays a crucial role in maximising asset utilisation, minimising costs, and contributing to the overall efficiency and productivity of the organisation.Skills:Public sector experience (ideally MOD)Responsibilities:Asset Lifecycle ManagementDevelop and implement comprehensive IT asset management strategies and policies.Oversee the procurement, deployment, maintenance, and retirement of IT assets in alignment with business needs and budget constraints.Establish and maintain accurate inventory records of all IT assets, including hardware and software.Optimise asset utilisation and reduce costs through effective lifecycle management and strategic planning.Compliance and GovernanceEnsure compliance with software licensing agreements, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.Conduct regular audits and reconciliations of IT assets to maintain data accuracy and identify discrepancies.Develop and enforce IT asset management policies and procedures to mitigate risks and ensure compliance.Financial ManagementCollaborate with finance and other departments to forecast IT asset needs and manage budgets effectively.Analyse and report on the financial impact of IT asset management decisions and initiatives.Identify opportunities for cost savings and implement strategies to optimise asset-related expenses.Reporting and AnalyticsDevelop and deliver comprehensive reports on asset status, utilisation, and performance to senior management and stakeholders.Utilise data analysis techniques to generate insights and support data-driven decision-making.Monitor and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to IT asset management.Process Improvement and AutomationContinuously evaluate and improve IT asset management processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.Explore and implement automation technologies to streamline asset management tasks and reduce manual effort.