Managing Associate Director, Digital Advertising
Wheelhouse Digital Marketing Group
Technical Director
That's No Moon
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $272,000 - $355,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Own the technical strategy for Unreal Engine usage, balancing existing proprietary systems with evolving UE5 capabilities.
- Evaluate and direct the future of proprietary tech: determine what to maintain, refactor, or replace with native Unreal solutions, and assign work accordingly.
- Partner with the Game Director, Art Director, and Production Director to ensure technical decisions align with creative vision, production priorities and project feasibility.
- Define and maintain a clear technology roadmap through ship, including milestones, risks, and dependencies.
- Provide technical leadership across the engineering team: mentorship, standards and clarity of direction.
- Own and enforce performance targets (eg. frame rate, memory budgets, load times, streaming).
- Oversee build stability, integrations and platform certification readiness.
- Manage relationships with external studios, middleware providers and platform partners to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
- Identify long-term technical risks and debt and drive mitigation strategies proactively.
Requirements
- Proven Unreal Engine 5 shipping experience, ideally on a AAA console/PC title.
- Deep experience with gameplay systems, AI, streaming and performance optimization.
- Strong background in engine architecture and tech refactoring.
- History of providing technical direction at a leadership level and driving alignment across creative, production and engineering.
- Demonstrated ability to balance innovation with shipping viability, making tough calls to protect schedules and stability.
- Excellent communication skills, able to clearly translate complex tech decisions to non-technical partners.
- Track record of cross-platform delivery and platform certification.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401(k) match
- flexible PTO
- supplemental life and disability
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Unreal Engine 5gameplay systemsAIstreaming optimizationperformance optimizationengine architecturetech refactoringcross-platform deliveryplatform certificationtechnical direction
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentorshipcommunicationcollaborationdecision makingrisk managementproblem solvingalignmentinnovation balanceclarity of direction
