Own the people management of the engineering team through regular one-on-ones, design reviews, and feedback sessions.
Partner daily with creative leadership, production, art, and design to ensure engineering execution is aligned with milestone goals and upcoming roadmap milestones.
Own workload balancing and sustainable production practices for the engineering team.
Ensure Directors’ feedback is heard and actioned upon, and that iteration and progress trends toward established success criteria.
Represent and advocate for the engineering team in cross-disciplinary discussions, clearly communicating resource constraints, tradeoffs, and intent.
Hold the team accountable to defined standards of excellence, including problem-solving quality, velocity, and delivery against agreed timelines.
Directly manage gameplay and backend engineers, including performance management, feedback, and career development.
Partner with the Tech Director, CCO, and creative leads to support game stability and execution against the overall vision.
Establish and maintain clear team goals, execution processes, and operational best practices for engineering.
Be accountable for the delivery of engineering commitments in collaboration with production.
Support the technical pipeline by ensuring dependencies, risks, and resourcing needs are surfaced and addressed.
Participate in hiring by assessing team fit, growth needs, and onboarding readiness.
Foster a healthy, inclusive, and collaborative team culture aligned with Gardens’ values.
Lead the team through ambiguity, ensuring progress on high-impact, complex initiatives.

Requirements

Proven experience managing and mentoring a team of game development engineers.
Deep understanding of Unreal Engine, stability needs in a live action game, pipelines, and development processes.
Expertise in at least one engineering discipline (game play, back end)
Shipped games successfully (ideally on PC or console)

Benefits

Competitive Salaries and Pay Transparency
Stock Options
Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage (100% for Individuals and 90% for Dependents)
Life Insurance, Short Term & Long Term Disability, and numerous other benefits
401k contributions (USA) / RRSP plan + DPSP contributions (Canada)
Paid Parental Leave
Biannual Company Retreats
Continued Education Allowance
A fully-distributed studio across North American Timezones (US & Canada)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Unreal Enginegameplay engineeringbackend engineeringgame development processesperformance managementworkload balancingsustainable production practicestechnical pipeline managementproblem-solvingdelivery against timelines

Soft Skills

people managementmentoringcommunicationcollaborationaccountabilityleadershipteam culture developmentfeedbackadaptabilitygoal setting