Senior Technical Director

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      "text": "What You'll Lead and Deliver",
      "content": "\n<li>\n<p><strong>Lead engineering leadership across the studio</strong>, directly managing technical leads spanning 4 to 8 active projects. Support their technical decision-making, team effectiveness, and execution quality.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Own hiring for key technical roles</strong>, including technical leads and senior engineering individual contributors. Partner with project leadership to define needs, assess candidates, and build strong teams with the right mix of experience and specialization.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Drive technical assessment for partner opportunities</strong>, including remasters, ports, live operations, and other proposals. Review existing codebases across proprietary and commercial engines, identify risks and constraints, inform estimates, and staffing plans.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Help set new projects up for success</strong> by establishing strong technical foundations early, including build and release pipelines, middleware evaluations, engineering staffing needs, and development workflows that support long-term delivery.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Provide ongoing engineering leadership across the portfolio</strong>, helping teams respond to emergent technical issues, production pressure, platform complexity, performance concerns, integration challenges, and architectural drift.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Partner closely with Production and project leadership</strong> to track technical risks, schedule impacts, capacity constraints, and expertise gaps. Help teams make informed tradeoffs and ensure technical realities are reflected clearly in project planning.</p>\n</li>\n<li><strong>Champion engineering standards and cross-functional alignment</strong>, improving technical planning, architecture review, dependency management, and collaboration across engineering, production, design, art, QA, and partner teams.</li>\n\n<div>&nbsp;</div>"
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      "text": "You'll Thrive Here If You",
      "content": "<div>\n\n<li>\n<p>You have significant experience in game development in a senior engineering leadership role, with a track record of influencing technical direction and delivery across multiple projects.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>You've managed technical leaders and know how to support them in both people leadership and technical decision-making.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>You're comfortable assessing unfamiliar codebases quickly and forming clear opinions about technical feasibility, architectural risk, staffing implications, and delivery complexity.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>You've worked with both proprietary and commercial engines, and you understand the realities of remasters, ports, live ops, co-development, and partner-driven production environments.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>You know how to set projects up well from the beginning, including build pipelines, tooling, middleware choices, team composition, and technical planning practices that reduce risk over time.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>You're effective at stepping into projects that are facing emergent technical problems and helping teams regain clarity, momentum, and technical control without undermining local ownership.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>You work well with Production and understand how to translate technical realities into clear conversations about schedule, risk, capacity, and staffing needs.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>You're a strong people builder who enjoys hiring, mentoring, and leveling up technical talent, not just solving difficult engineering problems yourself.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>You're an excellent communicator who can build confidence with internal teams and external partners, and you balance long-term technical quality with practical execution.</p>\n</li>\n\n</div>"
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      "text": "Bonus XP",
      "content": "<div>\n\n<li>\n<p>Experience contributing to business development efforts, including technical due diligence, partner proposals, RFP responses, or project scoping.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Experience across remasters, ports, live operations, co-development, or franchise adaptation work.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Experience working with multiple game engines, including Unreal, Unity, and proprietary technology stacks.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Experience working across AAA, AA, and external partner game projects.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Experience building or improving studio-wide engineering practices, pipelines, or technical review processes.</p>\n</li>\n\n</div>"
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