FuturLab

Role Description We’re looking for a Producer to join the exciting world of PowerWash Simulator! You’ll be joining an award-winning studio where you’ll use your exceptional communication and organisational skills to manage the infrastructure which supports our growing relationships with outsource partners, from concept to delivery. You’ll be the bridge between our development team and the external businesses we work alongside to ensure smooth communication and timely delivery. You’ll be responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing work produced by external teams, ensuring it meets quality, scope and schedule expectations. You will also be identifying risks, keeping development on track, liaising with marketing and business development. Role & Responsibilities: - Owner of the PowerWash Apple Arcade Production pipeline - Responsible for overseeing outsourcing content production for PowerWash 2 - Working alongside our internal team, co-dev partners and Apple to produce regular content drops to the Apple Store, ensuring contracts, SOWs and invoicing is organised in a timely manner - Responsible for the roadmap, backlog and keeping documentation up to date - Keep internal teams aligned, such as tech, QA and marketing - Risk management and Stakeholder updates - Store and release management for Apple Store Qualifications - 3+ years in games production, with knowledge of the full game development cycle - Excellent communication, organisational, documentation and stakeholder management skills - Comfortable using project management tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Excel, Miro) and running daily scrums, sprint planning and retrospectives - Proven experience working with outsourcers, or co-development partners - History of managing external commercial relationships (publishers, vendors etc) - Experience with cross-team collaboration, quality and risk management - Understanding of contract structures, SOWs, milestone‑based delivery and invoicing - Ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities simultaneously - Understanding of project management and bug tracking software such as Jira - Experience shipping one or more console, PC, or live‑service titles Requirements - Experience working across geographically distributed teams and time zones (Desirable) - Knowledgeable with localisation processes and pipelines (Desirable) - Previous experience in shipping games on the Apple AppStore (Desirable) - Interest and appreciation of relaxing games (Desirable) Benefits - Competitive salary (dependent on experience) - Performance related bonus - Bi-annual salary reviews based on your performance - Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm (No weekends, No overtime, No Crunch!) - Opportunity to work from home (UK only), out of our Brighton office, or hybrid - 27 days of paid annual leave, including 21 standard days, 3 days over the Christmas closure, 2 discretionary 'Duvet Days,' 1 day to celebrate your birthday, plus all 8 UK bank holidays and an extra day off for our very own FuturLab bank holiday! - 5 paid training and 2 paid volunteer days per year to work on your personal development - Opportunities to attend and speak at gaming events/conferences - Free MS Game Pass or PS+ subscription - Free game codes, game swag and merchandise - Bike2work scheme - Enhanced Maternity - 9 months full pay (statutory benefit topped up by FL) - Paternity leave - 8 weeks full pay - Enhanced Sick Pay - Enhanced Pension - Private Healthcare, includes dental and optical cover - Remote therapy service through Spill - 8 x 50-minute virtual sessions over 6 months whenever you need them. Unlimited ‘ask a therapist’ text questions - Eye tests for display work - Amazing offices with a great culture. E.g. Regular social activities, Free fresh fruit, Free iced treats in the Summer and Free locally roasted Coffee and Speciality Teas!

Role Description FuturLab are looking for a Senior QA Tester to join the PowerWash Simulator 2 team on a 12-month fixed term contract. We are hiring this role as remote; however, a successful candidate could be office-based or work a hybrid setup, if preferred. If you are a QA professional who’d like to help us enhance the quality of the soothing PowerWash Simulator 2, we’d love to hear from you. Key Responsibilities - Work autonomously toward objections that have been set - Review feature or content specifications and create test plans - Review feature or content health, and report accordingly - Investigate high-risk bugs and provide risk assessments to help prioritization during bug triage - Mentor and help develop junior members of the team - Contribute to and help develop internal QA processes Qualifications - 3+ years in QA, preferably at a game development studio - Exceptional communication and organisation skills - Experience with all, or most PC and console gaming platforms - Experience creating and maintaining test plans - A solid understanding of the game development process Requirements - Strong knowledge of the PowerWash Simulator franchise - Knowledge of Microsoft, Sony & Nintendo certification requirements - Experience co-ordinating internal and external QA teams - At least one title supported from concept to release Benefits - Competitive salary (dependent on experience) - Performance related bonus - Bi-annual salary reviews based on your performance - Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm (No weekends, No overtime, No Crunch!) - Opportunity to work from home (UK only), out of our Brighton office, or hybrid - 27 days of paid annual leave, including 21 standard days, 3 days over the Christmas closure, 2 discretionary 'Duvet Days,' 1 day to celebrate your birthday, plus all 8 UK bank holidays and an extra day off for our very own FuturLab bank holiday! - 5 paid training and 2 paid volunteer days per year to work on your personal development - Opportunities to attend and speak at gaming events/conferences - Free MS Game Pass or PS+ subscription - Free game codes, game swag and merchandise - Bike2work scheme - Enhanced Maternity - 9 months full pay (statutory benefit topped up by FL) - Paternity leave - 8 weeks full pay - Enhanced Sick Pay - Enhanced Pension - Private Healthcare, includes dental and optical cover - Remote therapy service through Spill - 8 x 50-minute virtual sessions over 6 months whenever you need them. Unlimited ‘ask a therapist’ text questions - Eye tests for display work - Amazing offices with a great culture. E.g. Regular social activities, Free fresh fruit, Free iced treats in the Summer and Free locally roasted Coffee and Speciality Teas!

• Assist the Publishing Producer in scheduling and coordinating teams involved in content and quality-of-life updates for live and unreleased games across multiple platforms. • Assist in ensuring all required checks and approvals for releases are completed and communicate any exceptions or changes to the Publishing Producer. • Maintain accurate release records to track content, changes, and historical data. • Support the external submission and certification process for self-published titles under the guidance of the Publishing Producer. • Help maintain an understanding of build submission requirements and contribute to ensuring the team follows proper certification guidelines. • Maintain and update internal documentation relating to releases, publishing procedures, and operational workflows. • Coordinate with Product Management, Marketing, and Production to support release content planning and risk tracking. • Act as a support between the development team and platform holders, escalating issues to the Publishing Producer as needed. • Work with QA to help triage issues, maintain priority lists and support planning of hotfixes, patches, and content releases. • Help develop and refine checklists, templates, and tools used for publishing and release management. • Participate in discussions around future release planning, offering knowledge of certification processes to help inform decision-making.

We’re FuturLab, the award-winning game studio behind PowerWash Simulator, the Velocity series, Peaky Blinders Mastermind, and many more awesome games.    We’re looking for an Associate Publishing Producer to join the team.    The Associate Publishing Producer supports the Publishing Producer, Product Manager, QA Manager, and Marketing team in delivering high-quality releases and content updates to players on time and within budget.   This role is ideal for someone early in their production career who wants to specialise in publishing, release management, and live operations. Key Responsibilities:  - Assist the Publishing Producer in scheduling and coordinating teams involved in content and quality-of-life updates for live and unreleased games across multiple platforms.  - Assist in ensuring all required checks and approvals for releases are completed and communicate any exceptions or changes to the Publishing Producer.  - Maintain accurate release records to track content, changes, and historical data.  - Support the external submission and certification process for self-published titles under the guidance of the Publishing Producer.  - Help maintain an understanding of build submission requirements and contribute to ensuring the team follows proper certification guidelines.  - Maintain and update internal documentation relating to releases, publishing procedures, and operational workflows.  - Coordinate with Product Management, Marketing, and Production to support release content planning and risk tracking.  - Act as a support between the development team and platform holders, escalating issues to the Publishing Producer as needed.  - Work with QA to help triage issues, maintain priority lists and support planning of hotfixes, patches, and content releases.  - Help develop and refine checklists, templates, and tools used for publishing and release management.  - Participate in discussions around future release planning, offering knowledge of certification processes to help inform decision-making.

We’re FuturLab, the award-winning game studio behind PowerWash Simulator 1 and 2, the Velocity series, Peaky Blinders Mastermind, and many more awesome games. FuturLab is entering the next phase of its development. We operate primarily as a remote-first studio, with a small, intentional team based in Brighton. Maintaining strong communication, alignment and culture across a distributed team is a key part of how the studio operates. With a studio of around 100 people and a deliberate focus on strengthening consistent, values-led leadership capability and team effectiveness, we are looking for a Head of People who can help shape how the studio operates as it approaches its long-term scale.  This role sits on the Senior Leadership Team alongside the Head of Production and Head of Technology and works directly with the founders to support the studio’s next stage of development. Rather than focusing primarily on HR administration, this role centres on leadership capability, organisational effectiveness, and people strategy. The Role The Head of People acts as a strategic partner to the leadership team, helping the studio strengthen leadership capability, improve organisational alignment, and ensure the people function supports studio performance. Key areas of focus include: - Improving organisational design and team effectiveness - Shaping and implementing the studio’s people strategy - Supporting culture, communication and alignment across teams - Developing and strengthening the people function About You You will likely bring experience from organisations that have grown from around 50 to 200 people and understand the challenges of scaling teams, leadership capability and organisational structure. You will be comfortable working directly with founders and senior leaders and confident helping organisations navigate periods of growth and change. You are likely someone who: - enjoys working at the intersection of leadership, culture and organisational effectiveness - is comfortable advising senior leaders and providing constructive challenge - brings both strategic thinking and practical judgement You will align strongly with FuturLab’s values, including humility, kindness, resilience and a commitment to continuous improvement, and be comfortable operating in an environment where behaviours such as collaboration, accountability and “doing the right thing, kindly” are actively expected and reinforced.