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teamLFG · 3 months ago

Game Engineering Director

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$255K/yr - $383K/yr

teamLFG is a company focused on creating innovative games that foster community among players. They are seeking an Engineering Director to lead the technology organization, developing and maintaining a live production game service while inspiring a diverse team to create a beloved new franchise.

Entertainment

Responsibilities

Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary project leadership team to develop and maintain a product technology strategy that is informed by product vision, technical costs, and long-term technology goals

Leveraging the Unreal Engine and technology the team has built, direct the engineering organization to tackle challenging problems, find combinations of innovative technology with proven models, and build reliable solutions that deliver game experiences while sensibly managing technology risks

Recruit, nurture, and retain an engineering organization (30+ engineers, both internal FTE and external codev) with the skills, capacity, and adaptability to navigate uncertainty and deliver on the changing needs of the project

Manage multiple senior engineering leads, providing management support, technical guidance, constructive feedback, and career development coaching

Work with production leadership to schedule, track, deliver, and close out game features and releases, anticipating and mitigating any critical risks encountered, technical or otherwise

Communicate with PlayStation executives, directors, and technology teams, as needed

Qualification

Managing 20+ engineersDirecting co-development teamsDeveloping online gamesUnreal EngineAgile development methodologiesTeam alignmentStakeholder negotiationEffective communication

Required

Experience managing an organization of 20+ engineers on AAA game engineering teams

Experience working with and directing co-development engineering teams

Experience with developing and running online games in a live service environment

Ability to align with leadership and executive stakeholders, translate goals into strategic technology solutions with a thorough understanding of cost, efficiency, and quality tradeoffs, and then lead an organization to execute on a technology strategy

Effectively communicate with and inspire fellow engineers by driving team alignment and buy-in on technology vision and architectural principles

Ability to work with a team in a hybrid environment, leveraging real time chat communications and documentation across an entire game studio

Ability to communicate with stakeholders of different business, technical, and non-technical backgrounds, to help align objectives and negotiate common goals