Tech Manager

3 Months ago • 6-8 Years • Operations

Job Summary

Job Description

The Tech Manager ensures smooth operations within the tech team, managing programmers, engineers, and other tech professionals of varying experience levels. Responsibilities include guiding individual development plans, building relationships, providing feedback, and fostering a collaborative environment. The role involves handling hiring, performance reviews, salary discussions, and ensuring the company utilizes the tech team effectively. This role focuses on leadership, coaching, and influence, not direct programming work.
Must have:
  • Proven leadership experience with successful creative teams in gaming
  • Passion for team leadership, people management, and creating healthy work environments
  • Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
  • Interest and familiarity with Arrowhead games
Good to have:
  • Previous experience as a Tech Lead, Tech Manager, or Team Lead in the game industry
Perks:
  • Pet-friendly office
  • Newly built, custom-tailored offices
  • Stockholm location with access to various activities
  • Numerous employee benefits

Job Details

If you’re looking to make the best co-op games in the world, you’ve come to the right place. We're proud to have some of the best game makers and collaborators in the industry working with us. What's more, we're a fun bunch of game developers, who love to indulge in our passion for video games together. Our games are not for everyone. Are they for you?

We are now looking for a Tech Manager

The Tech Manager will be responsible for making sure everything runs smoothly in their tech team. They manage programmers, engineers and other parts of the tech team from different disciplines and experience levels, helping them grow their skills while also aligning their work with the studio's goals. They understand both the needs of our players and the overall project requirements and use this knowledge to guide individual development plans. The Tech Manager is great at building relationships, giving clear feedback, and nurturing talent. They are comfortable with tough conversations when needed and fosters a safe, collaborative work environment. They are in charge of the growth and performance of their team members, handle hiring for relevant roles, and conduct development talks, salary discussions, and regular performance reviews to ensure the team continues to improve. You will not work directly with programming in the project but rather lead, coach, and influence the professions, as well as making sure the rest of the company uses their skills in the best way possible.

Who you are:

We believe that you

  • Have proven leadership experience with a track record of leading successful creative teams in the gaming industry
  • Are passionate about leading teams, managing people and creating healthy work environments
  • Have excellent communication skills in English both written and spoken
  • Have interest and familiarity with Arrowhead games
  • Previous experience as a Tech Lead, Tech Manager or Team Lead in the game industry is not a requirement but will be considered as a strong advantage

What you'll do

  • Recruitment & Onboarding of new programmers
  • Ongoing development of direct reports by setting clear expectations, providing feedback and following up on objectives
  • Evaluate performance, course-correct where necessary and ensure staff continually to grow and improve
  • Development talks, promotions, salary setting and salary talks
  • Enable and ensure a safe and healthy work environment
  • Work towards ensuring Arrowhead utilizes its tech team in the best possible way and that the team has the proper support
How to apply

If you think that this position matches your background and skills, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV in English as soon as possible. We ask that your application always include relevant work samples or a link to your portfolio.

We interview candidates continuously and hire when we find a good fit.


Practical Information

Scope: Full-time: 40 hours per week with initial 6 month probation period.
Location: Office first, hybrid solution possible. You need to be eligble to work in Sweden.


We are a pet friendly office! You can expect to find dogs and occasionally some cats around.


What we offer

Arrowhead Game Studios is a growing team of about 100+ people, best known for our co-op titles. Despite our size, we remain a friendly and down to earth bunch, who love to indulge in our passion for video games together.

Located in a newly built, custom-tailored offices on the Hammarby Kaj waterfront, we enjoy everything Stockholm has to offer. A thriving game dev scene, along with all types of activities are immediately available on our doorstep.

Our talented developers are crucial to our success, therefore we put a lot of emphasis in creating and maintaining a prosperous culture. We’re committed to open and transparent communication. Your ideas are welcomed, valued, appreciated - the ceiling for creative discussions is high.

We also have numerous work benefits for all our employees. You can read about them here!

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About The Company

“A game for everyone is a game for no one”


Arrowhead Game Studios is located in Stockholm, Sweden and we are a game developer focusing on creating immersive games for Console and PC. We have a team of ambitious, friendly and fun-loving developers challenging the game industry, while aiming to deliver an entertaining and high quality gaming experience. We’re most known for our co-op games and are the developers behind Magicka™, The Showdown Effect™, Gauntlet™ and Helldivers™. 


Believability, Sociality and Playfulness. 

These are the design pillars we take seriously here at Arrowhead. They mean that we aim to create games that have believable world design, gameplay that creates social connections between players and a playful approach to the game where you feel as if you are immersed in a fantasy. Arrowhead is always on the lookout for developers to act upon these pillars in developing our future AAA console title.


By challenging the creativity of the players, we create memorable experiences with humor and social interaction, that leaves you with stories to tell. We are known for our uncompromising game mechanics and intense cooperative gameplay, and are well underway of our next project: a 3rd person shooter featuring next-gen graphics, innovative co-op and agency for the community to alter the course of the game. This AAA game will share the satirical humor that fans of our previous games know and love.


Each team member at Arrowhead is passionate about making a kickass effort in order to create great games. To achieve this, we believe it is important to have dedicated, friendly and helpful people around you. We offer a driven and creative environment where small cross-disciplinary teams work tightly together to provide next generation game play experiences.


Are you interested in joining our kickass team? You can find all our current job openings on our jobs website: https://jobs.arrowheadgamestudios.com/

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden (Hybrid)

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