Technical Director

Technical Director

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional and relevant experience in a game development environment with 2+ years’ experience leading an engineering team within a game project.
• Shipped multiple PC or console games as a Lead or above.
• Extensive experience leading several engineering teams through a complete development cycle in partnership with co-development or outside vendors or specializes in set-up or release phase of development.
• Proven track record of managing multiple technical disciplines and guiding teams through various game development cycles.
• Broad understanding of all major facets of large-scale game engine architecture.
• Excellent skills in C++ programming and object-oriented architecture
• Sound technical judgement in estimating task complexity.
• Strong personal communication skills.
• Leadership experience directing other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with Creative Director, Art Director, Senior Producer and other project leadership to identify team needs, set team goals and feature specifications.
• Implement and oversee the technical direction of game projects, guiding the creative process to achieve high-quality output.
• Develop high-level strategies and translate them into actionable plans and team capacity.
• Oversee real-time game, tools/infrastructure and team workflow.
• Determine team policy and practice with all technical matters – specs for art and design, code standards, code reviews, etc. within the framework of overall company best practices.
• Lead and mentor engineers through the complete development cycle, collaborating with Game Director, Lead Producer and other project leadership and external vendors.
• Manage leads and managers to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Help build the engineering team, including interviewing, hiring and developing engineering talent.
• Hands-on coding as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.