Pete Young · Founder
Pete started as a programmer and worked through every level of games development: engineering, production, platform teams, studio leadership. Some of the waypoints:
Multiplayer Director on Driver: San Francisco - cross-functional ownership of direction, design, technical, and UX on a critically acclaimed, technically demanding feature. Building and leading the eight-person team that shipped Grow Home, BAFTA nominated - proof that constraints, handled well, are a creative catalyst. Production Director across a 200+ person studio running multiple simultaneous projects, including The Crew, Just Dance andWatch Dogs. Leading the Live Services platform team at Creative Assembly and the Productivity & Infrastructure team at Ubisoft Reflections - central technology and shared services built to improve delivery across the whole organisation, not just any single project.
A PhD in Computer Science sits underneath all of it, which is why the conversation works as well with a technical director as it does with an MD.
Three things, in order.
Align. Make hidden dependencies and conflicting priorities visible, and get the people who own them into the same conversation.
Execute. Work alongside the team while decisions get made and stick - present in the room, sharing accountability for what happens next.
Deliver. Stay until momentum is real, measured in shipped work rather than workshop outputs.
What it isn't: advice from the sidelines, process for its own sake, or an assessment that arrives, reports, and leaves.
Publishers want titles shipped faster, with smaller teams and less slack. Studio structures that worked at fifty people crack at a hundred and fifty. And full-time senior delivery leadership is expensive to carry between the moments it's actually needed.
Fractional, embedded engagement exists for exactly that gap: senior enough to matter, present enough to help, without the permanent overhead. Twenty-five years spent inside game teams - from large, multi-studio AAA productions to the eight-person team that shipped Grow Home - means the patterns are recognisable, with enough distance from any one team's project to see clearly what's hardest to see from inside it.