Manage a team of 4 leads and 6 individual contributors across experience levels, providing coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development
Foster a collaborative, challenging, and satisfying environment for your development team members
Partner with production, pod owners, and studio leadership to deliver sprints and milestones on time and at the expected quality bar
Allocate engineering resources across pods to best match skills, knowledge, and project needs
Empower engineers with the tools, context, and cross-studio support required to execute effectively
Represent the engineering organization by surfacing concerns, proposing solutions, and maintaining alignment while protecting technical integrity
Advise leadership on engineering systems, technology, and infrastructure, identifying and mitigating technical risks
Contribute hands-on as needed to gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5 (Blueprints and C++)
Maintain strong stakeholder relationships and communicate regularly with pod leaders on delivery, resourcing, and performance
Support critical milestones with urgency, including playtests, in-person events, and occasional travel.

Requirements

10+ years of game development experience, including 5+ years in people management
Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams while delivering results
Deep expertise in at least one core engineering discipline (gameplay, systems, graphics, etc) and Unreal Engine implementation
Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills across disciplines
Demonstrated ability to delegate effectively, manage competing priorities, and mitigate risk
Solid understanding of end-to-end game development pipelines and how engineering disciplines come together to ship a product
Experience working with outsourced engineering partners.

Benefits

Up to 10% air travel required
Equal Opportunity Employer

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Unreal Engine 5BlueprintsC++game developmentgameplay systemssystems engineeringgraphics engineeringend-to-end game development pipelinesperformance managementtechnical risk mitigation

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationstakeholder managementdelegationprioritizationcoachingfeedbackcareer development