Jobs at Cloud Imperium Games

Manage end-to-end production of the Squadron 42 launch campaign across media and brand partners. Coordinate briefs, assets, approvals, timelines, deliverables, feedback, quality checks, milestone tracking, risk escalation, cross-functional alignment, and post-campaign reporting. Serve as the primary contact for external partners and travel as needed for meetings, press events, and activations.

Lead production coordination for a large-scale, live-service character development project. Partner with leadership to deliver project goals, identify and resolve risks, manage and mentor producers, improve team processes, support distributed collaboration, and maintain a healthy, motivated team environment. The role requires experience with character art production pipelines, player-facing cosmetics and customization content, recurring live-ops releases, and video game project management.

Own end-to-end CRM email campaigns, including copywriting, deployment, A/B testing, reporting, retention, re-engagement, and monetization initiatives. Support paid media campaigns across major advertising platforms, collaborate with creative, community, and social teams, and analyze CRM, media, and player behavior metrics to provide actionable recommendations. Monitor PC gaming trends, competitor activity, and player sentiment while managing multiple digital marketing workstreams.

Supports Senior Producers in delivering Core Technology Group projects across global teams. Manages day-to-day production, tracks and resolves risks and changes, drives deadlines, improves processes, supports team motivation and collaboration, resolves conflicts, builds distributed teams, and assists with hiring efforts.

Own and operate the Manchester studio’s audiovisual environment across live stages, motion-capture facilities, production sets, audio rooms, and conferencing spaces. Responsibilities include daily system checks, fault diagnosis, live audio and video management, broadcast-quality studio support, livestreaming workflows, vendor and contractor coordination, AV strategy, installations, upgrades, documentation, and stakeholder support.

Support the Engine team by creating, executing and maintaining test cases, verifying game features, tools, and backend services. Provide feedback, reports, and QA liaison duties while improving testing procedures and documentation.

Capture and direct bespoke Star Citizen gameplay for social media, including multiplayer clips, community highlights, and short-form vertical videos. Collaborate with developers and gameplay capture artists, participate in community events, identify shareable moments, pitch creative concepts, and apply cinematic filming techniques. Maintain strong awareness of Star Citizen, internet culture, trends, memes, and community interests while quality-checking captured content.

Own end-to-end UX/UI design for high-volume e-commerce and platform experiences. Design checkout, cart, upsell and pledge flows focused on conversion and clarity. Work iteratively within the Orion Design System, collaborate with product, engineering, QA and marketing, contribute to design tokens and system evolution, and deliver high-fidelity production-ready designs.

Supports marketing leadership by coordinating web, creative, and promotional projects across international teams. Responsibilities include developing project plans and trackers, managing schedules and changes, coordinating delivery of creative assets, facilitating cross-team communication, identifying risks, resolving issues, maintaining documentation, and improving processes. The role serves as a liaison among marketing, web, creative, social, CRM, PR, community, and platform technology teams.

Design character concepts for Star Citizen from research to final images, creating humanoids, clothing, creatures, and hard-surface armor/machinery. Collaborate with Concept and Character teams, participate in feedback loops, and deliver visuals that meet team expectations.

Lead development of gameplay systems using a bespoke multithreaded engine. Mentor and direct a gameplay programming team, design and implement reliable C++ systems, integrate PC hardware and APIs, enforce coding standards and best practices, and drive feature delivery across disciplines.

Create high-quality hard-surface vehicle models for Star Citizen from concept to flyable game-ready assets. Collaborate with designers, technical artists, and animators to implement PBR materials, animation-ready mechanisms (landing gear, cockpits, cargo systems), and follow engine file naming and directory standards.

Manage day-to-day production to deliver large-scale game projects. Support Senior Producers, identify and resolve risks, mentor other producers, champion efficient processes, and collaborate with leadership and distributed teams.

Own and operate the corporate network across multiple global studios: switching, routing, wireless, firewalls, VPN, and inter-site connectivity. Optimize performance for high-throughput workloads, design segmentation and zero-trust access, lead monitoring/capacity planning, manage ISPs and vendors, and participate in on-call incident response.

Responsible for owning corporate server, virtualization, and storage estates across multiple studios; administering Microsoft security and identity systems; operating cloud workloads and infrastructure-as-code; leading patch management, backups and restores; supporting development infrastructure (Perforce, build servers); and participating in on-call coverage for critical infrastructure incidents.

Lead the design vision and team for Star Citizen and/or Squadron 42 in Manchester. Provide creative direction, architect content and workflows, hire and mentor senior designers, coordinate cross-discipline collaboration, manage priorities and iteration, and align design goals with production schedules.

Support the Controller by performing full-cycle accounting tasks: journal entries, month/quarter/year closes, reconciliations, financial reporting, government remittances, intercompany processing, payroll validation, audit support, and process improvements (ERP/Workday). Collaborate with production and HR to ensure accurate project financials.

Design, build, document, maintain, and improve internal content development tools for Star Citizen. Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers on requirements and design, evaluate third-party tools, provide user support, and contribute ideas across production and tooling to optimize content creation and performance.

Design, implement, and maintain reliable, bug-free gameplay code in a large shared codebase. Collaborate with teammates to deliver gameplay systems, document and peer-review designs, support QA testing, mentor internal users, promote best practices, and stay current with software engineering methods.

Manage full-cycle accounts payable and biweekly US payroll for a distributed workforce. Oversee vendor management, 1099 and year-end reporting, reconciliations, month-end accruals, compliance, process improvements, and stakeholder relationships while mentoring staff and supporting ad hoc reporting.