VICE Studios
Development Producer
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VICE Studios is expanding its premium unscripted formats business and is looking for a Development Producer to join its growing development team.
We are building a slate of ambitious, entertainment formats across competition, reality, studio entertainment and social experiments, with strong hooks, distinctive visual identities and the potential to travel internationally.
This is a hybrid role, with up to four days a week based in our King's Cross office.
Contract length: 6 months
THE ROLE
We’re looking for an ideas-led Development Producer who loves creating original formats from the ground up and turning them into compelling, market-ready pitches.
You will be involved in:
- Generating and developing original unscripted entertainment, factual entertainment and premium doc ideas
- Creating sharp, visually compelling pitch decks
- Researching concepts, talent, trends and potential markets
- Developing ideas with both UK and international audiences in mind
- Working collaboratively with the wider creative team in the UK and US
- Taking ideas from initial thought through to buyer pitch
- Using AI and emerging creative tools to accelerate research, development and presentation
- Creating sizzles and visual treatments where required
ABOUT YOU
We’re looking for someone who:
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- Has a strong track record in unscripted entertainment or factual development with a love of formats
- Is genuinely passionate about ideas generation
- Is an excellent deck builder with a strong visual and editorial eye
- Is AI savvy and comfortable exploring new creative tools
- Can take an idea from a rough thought to a compelling, marketable format
- Has experience developing ideas for the US market as well as the UK
- Is a strong collaborator who enjoys working as part of a creative team
- Is generous with ideas, encourages others and actively contributes to a positive, ambitious creative culture
- Brings energy, curiosity, creativity and a willingness to challenge convention
Experience of the US market, cutting sizzles and a desire to pitch your ideas is a strong advantage.
WHY VICE?
This is an opportunity to join VICE Studios at an exciting stage of growth and help build a new generation of premium documentary and entertainment formats.
We want ideas with ambition, originality, and formats that feel contemporary, culturally relevant, and unmistakably VICE.
To apply, please send your CV and examples of relevant development work.
We are committed to being an inclusive hirer and employer. If you require any assistance in submitting your application, or have any questions about reasonable adjustments you might need during the recruitment process, please contact us.
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ABOUT VICE Studios:
VICE Studios, a division of VICE Media Group, sources, develops, finances and produces premium, award-winning and culture-defining content for the global marketplace. Operating with a full-service production facility, VICE Studios powers scripted, unscripted and branded content that anticipates culture with a distinct bold, authentic, raw and unfiltered VICE lens. The studio is behind the critically-acclaimed Gangs of London, recently renewed for a fourth season and the adrenaline-charged thriller Atomic, both for Sky, and the satirical feature Bad Apples, starring Oscar-nominated Saoirse Ronan, which premiered at TIFF in 2025 and was selected for San Sebastián, BFI London, and AFI Film Festival. Unscripted projects included Into the Void (Hulu), Hollywood Hustler: Glitz, Glam, Scam (Prime Video), Pavements (Mubi), Bama Rush (HBO), and Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now (Netflix). VICE Studios owns and operates the Cuba Pictures label, behind the hit Channel 5 series The Rumour and RTE’s The Walsh Sisters. At VICE, we take creative risks, challenge convention, and we live to tell the story.
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