Creative Director

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

As Creative Director at Techland, you'll define the creative vision for games, establishing core elements like story, tone, and player experience. You'll foster a collaborative creative culture, guiding content directors and providing iterative reviews. Responsibilities include presenting innovative ideas, understanding player trends, guiding prototyping, communicating progress, managing quality targets, and presenting games to stakeholders. You'll work closely with various game development teams (programming, animation, art, design, marketing), leveraging your expertise to mentor and guide the team. A deep understanding of game engines (Unity or Unreal) is essential.
Must have:
  • 6+ years AAA game dev experience as Creative Director
  • Team building and leadership skills
  • Exceptional communication & presentation skills
  • Cross-team collaboration expertise
  • Technical & production feasibility awareness
  • Mentorship capabilities
  • Game engine knowledge (Unity or Unreal)
Perks:
  • Private medical care
  • Life insurance
  • Pro-health campaigns
  • Gifts for occasions
  • Flexible working hours
  • No dress code
  • HR Business Partner support
  • Development budget
  • Training days
  • Career paths
  • Internal/external training
  • Language classes
  • Chillout zones
  • Fully equipped kitchen
  • Gym (Wrocław)
  • Free car park (Warsaw)

Job Details

Company Description

Techland is one of the biggest video game companies in Poland, with over 30 years of experience in the gaming industry. From our studios in Wrocław and Warsaw, we’ve built an international team of more than 500 talented professionals, all dedicated to pushing the boundaries of game development.

We’re known for creating iconic franchises like Call of Juarez and the zombie genre-defining Dying Light, which has been played by over 45 million players worldwide. With a focus on open-world action, storytelling, and community engagement, we’re committed to delivering unforgettable experiences to our players.

We’re constantly striving to improve, innovate, and take on new challenges. With ambitious plans for the future, we’re looking for passionate people to be part of this exciting journey.

Job Description

Your daily tasks:

  • Defining a clear, creative vision, and establishing the foundations of our games (meaning, story, tone, player fantasy, game experience).
  • Establish and driving a creative culture that engages world class talent, maximizes team potential, and encourages proactive cross-discipline collaboration.
  • Providing guidance to all content directors and making iterative reviews to ensure the vision in maintained.
  • Presenting innovative ideas to drive the player experience and engagement to the next level.
  • Understanding new trends driving player expectations and behaviors.
  • Guiding early prototyping with innovative approach.
  • Communicating progress and resolution of issues with the ability to set guidelines,
  • Presenting game in communications, including delivering presentations and taking responsibility for internal reviews with stakeholders.
  • Managing the quality targets and achieved results.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in the video game industry, with shipped AAA titles as Creative Director.
  • Proven experience building and leading game development teams. 
  • Exceptional organizational, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
  • Effective cross-team communication skills: you have the know-how to comfortably communicate with all gamedev fields (programming, animation, art, design, marketing).
  • Ability to take technical and production feasibility into account when coming up with concepts.
  • Mentorship skills: you are always ready to share your expertise to guide the team.
  • Good knowledge of game engines (e.g. Unity or Unreal) and their limitations.
  • Very good command of English.

Additional Information

What we can offer:

  • A wide array of benefits: private medical care, life insurance, pro-health campaigns, gifts for different occasions.
  • An outstanding work atmosphere in a highly-skilled team of professionals, with flexible working hours, no dress code, and full support of the dedicated HR Business Partner.
  • A constant stream of company newsletters, PR & project updates so you will always be in the know.
  • Many opportunities for personal development: a dedicated development budget for each employee, extra two paid days for training and CSR, stable career paths, extensive internal and external training, and financing of English and Polish language classes.
  • State-of-the-art offices filled with chillout zones, a fully equipped kitchen, a gym (Wrocław office), and a free car park (Warsaw limited amount of space).

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About The Company

Techland is a long-established gaming industry success story. With more than 30 years in the market, we know how to keep delivering unforgettable experiences. Headquartered in Poland, our international team comprises over 500 professionals.

  

Our long history has produced well-known and critically acclaimed games, such as The Call of Juarez and the genre-defining Dying Light. But, we’re not stopping there! 


We want to continue to create compelling AAA titles around the cutting-edge gameplay that Techland is known for. Alongside exciting expansions to the world of Dying Light, work is also underway on our newest IP, an original fantasy title which will deliver intense action and exploration in a vast open world.


We pride ourselves on our drive for quality, innovation and community engagement. Every game starts and ends with our players. We’re grateful for their support and will continue to deliver them the best gameplay experiences in the world.


Join us on our adventures and let’s do something remarkable together!

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