Studio: Skydance Interactive
Job Opening: Technical Director – VR
Location: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, US
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Technical Direction
- Coordinate with Creative Director, Art Director, Senior Producer, and other project leadership to identify team needs, set team goals and feature specifications.
- Implement and oversee the technical direction of game projects, guiding the creative process to achieve high-quality output.
- Develop high-level strategies and translate them into actionable plans and team capacity.
- Oversee real-time game, tools/infrastructure, and team workflow.
- Determine team policy and practice with all technical matters – specs for art and design, code standards, code reviews, etc. within the framework of overall company best practices.
- Leadership & Management
- Lead and mentor engineers through the complete development cycle, collaborating with Game Director, Lead Producer and other project leadership and external vendors.
- Manage leads and managers to ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Help build the engineering team, including interviewing, hiring and developing engineering talent.
- Hands-on coding as appropriate
Qualifications & Skills:
- You have 10+ years of professional and relevant experience in a game development environment with 2+ years’ experience leading an engineering team within a game project.
- Shipped multiple PC or console games as a Lead or above.
- You have extensive experience leading several engineering teams through a complete development cycle in partnership with co-development or outside vendors or specializes in set-up or release phase of development.
- Proven track record of managing multiple technical disciplines and guiding teams through various game development cycles.
- Broad understanding of all major facets of large-scale game engine architecture.
- Excellent skills in C++ programming and object-oriented architecture
- Sound technical judgement in estimating task complexity.
- Strong personal communication skills.
- Leadership experience directing other engineers
