Double Eleven takes on 200th employee

Games developer and publisher Double Eleven has doubled the size of its team after welcoming its 200th employee.

The company, which started life in a loft 12 years ago, has remotely recruited 103 new crew members to its Teesside headquarters and grown its Kuala Lumpur studio to 20 in the last 12 months.

Founder and chief executive Lee Hutchinson said: “Our recent growth has been phenomenal; it’s a reflection of the increasing scale and complexity of the type of projects we work on. 

“We’ve built new teams and created new roles within the organisation to support our online services and infrastructure needs, people development and, most importantly, wellbeing.

“We are quite comfortable recruiting outside the game industry to find individuals we believe have the right capabilities and experience to help us grow and advance different business areas.”

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