
Senior Technical Director – Temp, SFD, Cinematics
Blizzard Entertainment
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Irvine • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $101,000 - $186,754 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Join Blizzard Entertainment's Cinematics team as a Senior Technical Director
- Support artists and their workflows, building tools, solving technical challenges
- Develop innovative technology to bring iconic stories to life
- Collaborate closely with artists, producers, and fellow technologists
Requirements
- Strong background in software development, with experience in developing, modifying, deploying, and debugging software on Linux and Windows environments
- Experience writing tools or plugins for widely used third-party computer graphics programs
- Solid understanding of computer graphics (CG) pipelines and workflows
- Experience with third-party computer graphics programs such as Maya, Houdini, or Katana
- Strong problem-solving abilities and collaboration skills within multidisciplinary teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for cross-departmental interactions
- Proficiency in Python and object-oriented programming
- Genuine interest in a technical support capacity, assisting artists and team members
- Ability to adapt to shifting priorities during production schedule changes
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account
- Healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts
- Life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement
- Charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs
- Free and discounted games
- A variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software developmentLinuxWindowstool developmentdebuggingcomputer graphicsPythonobject-oriented programming
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcollaborationverbal communicationwritten communicationadaptability