Development Directors at our client’s studio establish and drive the game’s development plan and schedule, successfully moving the development team from one project phase to the next, while ensuring a strong focus on quality, collaboration, communication, and improvement.

Development Directors partner closely with internal and external project stakeholders, like producers, product managers, art directors, design directors, technical directors, and QA groups, to manage the project on time, to quality, and within budget.  They own the project plan.  They make data-driven decisions on the team’s forward-looking plans. They use this data to articulate the truth on the ground, and to be the voice of reason, as teams balance artistic ambition with their demonstrated capacity to execute on time.  They represent the state and the outlook of the project internally as well as to external partners.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the operational aspects of game development, including scheduling and roadmap construction and maintenance; risk management; scope and capacity planning; resource management; and team financial management.
• Partner with internal and external project stakeholders to define milestones and key deliverables.
• Develop and publish KPIs tracking progress, project quality, and predictability; and drive improvements and efficiencies by inventing and improving processes across the team.
• Help the team focus on the most critical issues with ruthless prioritisation.
• In partnership with the rest of team leadership and business leadership, contribute to business planning, and to establishing and reaching business targets.
• Recruit and manage development directors or producers: coaching, mentoring and helping them level up.

Essential Skills and Experience

• 2+ game development cycles managing production on AAA game franchises or similar software development projects.
• Experience managing a team of project managers, development directors, and/or producers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; able to understand and simplify complex problems, and deliver solutions.
• Highly developed relationship building skills.
• Passion, energy, and enthusiasm to drive results.
• Proven Games Industry experience driving agile software development.
• Live services experience a big plus!

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