Senior Development Director

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Game Production • $222,000 PA - $308,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Development Director at Believer, you'll collaborate with leadership and various disciplines to prioritize player-centric game development. Responsibilities include translating product vision into executable roadmaps, driving team progress, maintaining focus on player value, and ensuring alignment with product and business goals. You'll build lightweight processes, manage product progress and risks, and provide production leadership to the team. Key responsibilities also encompass overseeing communication, creating product roadmaps, fostering team motivation, and supporting the implementation of long-term player engagement strategies. This role requires strong leadership, experience in game production, and a deep understanding of player-centric development.
Must have:
  • 10+ years leadership in game development
  • 2+ shipped live game titles
  • Experience in team scaling and leadership development
  • Shipping a game from prototype
  • Strong production voice for leadership
Perks:
  • Great compensation package and equity
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
  • Spring Health mental health services
  • 10 observed holidays + 10 days Winter Break + flexible PTO
  • Remote-friendly

Job Details

Senior Development Director

There are many things that make Believers who we are, but our defining characteristic is an unwavering dedication to the player experience. We believe that player-first development is critical for games, esports, and all forms of media that allow us to engage with our favorite worlds and heroes. We are not just a game company; we are a company for Gamers. We believe that collaboration and diverse thought drive innovation, and we foster a development culture around that principle.

As a Senior Development Director, you will work closely with leadership and all disciplines to focus efforts on the most resonant game for our Players. In this role, you’ll take the product vision and translate it into an executable roadmap, and develop ways to drive the team forward.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Using your experience as a leader in game production, you’ll help the team maintain focus on delivering player value and provide leadership with great visibility into product progress and risks.  You’ll help the team relentlessly prioritize the most impactful features while ensuring alignment with product and business goals.  You’ll move teams towards predictability using a combination of process and relationship building, and keep a keen eye on product progress, risks and team health.  You’ll build lightweight processes in service of the player and product while flexing to let teams have room to tailor their processes for their own requirements.  You’ll provide a strong production voice for the leadership team to help maintain scope control and risk visibility, and push for places to make the game or team better; improving velocity, reducing risk, or shifting attention.

  • Maintain visibility for Product and Studio leadership on product progress, risks and team health, via structured process and organic conversations

  • Work with the Game Director, Studio Leadership, and Players to gather and document the goals the product must meet for its players

  • Develop and oversee communication systems to cascade clear priorities from Leadership to teams and build systems for making and reviewing commitments

  • Build and maintain overall product roadmap, including features and release for broad visibility across the organization

  • Help to create priorities from the cloud of goals that teams would like to deliver for players

  • Foster intrinsic motivation within teams to align them with product goals and processes

  • Leads production discipline, accountable for craft, resourcing and guidance for production support (focused on delivery leadership)

  • Support the creation, curation, and oversight of implementation of a multi-year audience focused strategy that will delight Players

You are a great fit if: 

  • 10+ years of experience as a leader (3-to-100+ people) in game development, with at least 2 delivered live titles

  • Proven track record of team scaling and leadership development

  • Experience shipping a game from prototype


Potential candidates,  please note - research shows that certain groups of candidates may not apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. If you see yourself at Believer but don’t check every single requirement, we would still love to be in touch with you for current and future opportunities.

What we offer:

  • Annual salary range: $222,000 - $308,000

Making great games is hard, so we do our best to make the other parts less hard.

  • Great compensation package and equity

  • Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Believer pays 100% of monthly costs for these plans

  • Access to Rightway service to help you navigate health insurance

  • Spring Health mental health services

  • 10 observed holidays + 10 days for Winter Break and "Take What You Need" PTO policy

  • Remote-friendly team #LI-Remote

  • We are committed to continuing to expand our benefits and perks to support all Believers

Diversity

Believer is committed to creating a diverse environment where Believers of all backgrounds can do their best work and grow professionally. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

About The Believer Company

Believer is a global games company with developers all over the world, headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

We've built our lives around creating and serving games we're proud of — from Words With Friends to League of Legends, from Destiny to Apex Legends. We hope you've enjoyed them, and if our wishes have come true, you're still playing them today.

We still think this is just the beginning.

We are Believers, bonded together by a deep love for players, and a commitment to put them at the center of the games we create, the worlds we build, the stories we tell, and the business we run to keep the fun going for as long as players keep believing.

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About The Company

Believer is a global games company with developers all over the world, headquartered in Los Angeles, California. 


Our Believers have built our lives around creating and serving games we’re proud of—from Words With Friends to League of Legends, from Destiny to PvZ. We hope you’ve enjoyed them, and if our wishes have come true, you’re still playing them today.


We still think this is just the beginning. We believe today is a singular moment in the history of games.


We believe our last half-century of progress has culminated in a global congregation of players, creators, and technologies that now make the difference between possible and impossible; player dreams that were previously unimaginable are now within our grasp.


We’ve worked hard to unite the best and bravest game creators we know, to deliver next-generation experiences equal to this unparalleled moment of possibility. We are Believers, bonded together by a deep love for players and a commitment to put them at the center of the games we create, the worlds we build, the stories we tell, and the business we run—to keep the fun going for as long as players keep believing.


If that sounds like something YOU can believe in, drop us a line. We’re hiring. =)

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