teamLFG · 2 days ago
Game Engineering Director
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$255K/yr - $383K/yrteamLFG is seeking a Game Engineering Director to lead the technology organization in delivering innovative game experiences. The role involves hiring and directing a team to develop and maintain a live production game service while collaborating with project leadership to align technology strategy with project goals.
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
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
Preferred
Experience with development using the Unreal Engine
Experience with development on a variety of platforms (PC, console)
Experience with agile development methodologies
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Matching 401(k)
Paid time off
Wellness program
Coveted employee discounts for Sony products
Bonus package
Company
teamLFG
Bellevue, WA-based studio driven by a mission to create games where players can find friendship, community, and belonging.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase