Development Director (Presentation)

Finding great talent and supporting our studios to be the best place for people to do their best work is central to our philosophy. This is the principle behind our newly formed Seattle Studio focusing on open-world action-adventure games and pioneering next generation emergent storytelling. Join us to pursue your passion to craft unique, groundbreaking and inclusive games that empower players to generate incredible stories of heroic adventure.

Become a foundational part of an ambitious, respectful and diverse team as we are looking for a Development Director responsible for helping facilitate the Presentation team’s success.

Making games is unpredictable, and we're all in it together. Development Directors are our drivers, listening and working with all our experts to find a way through. Development Directors determine the “how” for the team and are responsible for ensuring the team is focused on the priorities identified by leadership while maintaining continuous alignment during development.

Reporting to the Development Director II, this role entails frequent complex cross-discipline coordination. As the Development Director over Presentation, you will work in tandem with your development partners to create roadmaps, maintain scope/capacity artifacts, identify and execute clear goals, and help the team maintain focus on the project’s top priorities. You will be responsible for helping the team execute day-to-day implementation while planning for the long term, while clearly understanding and communicating status and risk.

Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders such as the Principal Art Director, Senior Presentation Director, and Director of Product Development to understand their goals and create a strategic project roadmap, ensuring the roadmap, granular feature strategies, and development plans accomplish their needs while adhering to larger project goals
• Create, manage, and execute the project roadmap for Presentation, working closely with the Development Director II and the rest of the development team to maintain high level alignment during project lifecycle
• Understand the executional complexities around Presentation and ensure impeccable cross-discipline alignment and communication during feature development
• In collaboration with the rest of the production team, take responsibility for production processes and health for assigned area of responsibility, continually ensuring that the team’s infrastructure and rituals support healthy, productive outputs
• Inspire fresh thinking and new ideas to ensure the team has the structure and processes that empowers them to innovate within our games and our development methodology
• Communicate the development plan to internal and external stakeholders.
• You will also have a passion and empathy for solving people's problems and building happy, motivated teams.

Qualifications:

• 5+years working with game development teams in a DD or Production role.
• Experience managing diverse team across different time zones and locations
• The ability to talk across all levels of an organization
• Experience of agile project management processes
• Experience obtaining insights and developing strategies through analytical metrics-driven analysis and design experimentation.
• Experience using KPIs to set product success goals, monitoring of the product and informing necessary changes to the game.
• Team player that brings excitement and enthusiasm to work each day.
• Strong communication and writing skills, with experience preparing and presenting decks to various stakeholders.