RESPONSIBILITIES

• Games technology strategy, development and prototyping: Being able to find opportunities to integrate ML/AI technologies with not entirely known game development systems and processes is key, and being able to do enough hands on prototyping work in the early days to demonstrate inspiring traction is needed. 
• Team Leadership: Able to work across disciplines with minimum process to organize work and create predictability in an unpredictable space, eventually working with leadership to recommend, specify, and build a team around whatever discoveries the team finds that represents a major opportunity.
• Creative:  The ideal candidate is able to bring player empathy to the technical work and can reasonably pursue “fun” as well as technical creativity.  In the long term, the team will consider dedicated design resources but in the short term until there’s a better understanding of what is possible, a technology leader who also understands game design and perhaps proactively works with other design leaders in our organization to hone thoughts will be important.

REQUIREMENTS

• 10+ years experience shipping AAA, casual or mobile games, with high complexity innovations (vs solely iterative or pure sequels), in a technical director type role.
• High comfort with technical complexity and ambiguity, and an interest to pioneer
• Exceptional communication, cross discipline collaboration and leadership skills
• Passion for making video games, and how technology enables joy in innovative ways

Bonus Skill

• Strong product/design sense
• Familiarity with multiple game engine technologies such as Unity3D and UnrealEngine
• Expertise in leveraging mixes of “cloud” services and APIs to create complex game features and architectures