Development Director for Engineering
SF Bay Area, CA
Partnering with senior studio management, the Development Director provides leadership and manages the execution of one or more components of a complex, large and strategic game development project.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provides supervision to a team of engineers including coaching staff for improved performance, evaluating performance and recognizing achievements.
- Set objectives, prioritize and organize task/people assignments.
- Build and maintain effective working schedules to ensure achievement of project development milestones. Proactively manage risks.
- Effectively partner with Line Producer to optimize the trade-off between scope, quality, time and resource for product decisions.
- Maintain regular communication with team and key stakeholders to provide project status updates; encourages others to express their point of view.
- Manage change requests and obtains appropriate approvals; advise key stakeholders on the impact of each change request on project schedule, budget, and resources.
- Ultimately responsible for the on-time delivery of the game.
Job Qualifications:
- 5+ years managing engineers.
- 4+ years of software development experience.
- 4+ years project management experience.
- Effective communication skills across all levels of an organization.
- Extensive experience using MS Project.
- Familiarity with source control and change management tools and practices.
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