Associate Technical Director - Old School RuneScape

Are you passionate about games and the development process? Want to hone your craft at one of the worlds leading MMO's?

Jagex are looking for an associate technical director to take the lead in developing the next iteration of OSRS content creation. You will take the rains of strategy and direction for improving our content creation pipeline, working with our designers, tools engineers, engine engineers and others to improve time to market, and get new stories and experiences out to our players.

What you'll be doing:

Strategy:

• Help identify and create the technical vision for Old School RuneScape.

• Be accountable for executing the vision. 

• Oversee the present and future technology projects, tools, people pipeline and development methodologies. 

Leadership:

• As part of product leadership, build a high-performance team with a culture of fast delivery and data-driven iteration.

• Challenge and raise the technical skill level of staff in the team.

• Assist in creating a technical people pipeline that is in line with the needs of the studio alongside the Technical Director and product leadership.

• Identify and mentor top talent within the team to broader roles and greater responsibility.

• Guide the technical staffing & development of new technical projects.

• Help develop clear and concise job descriptions and identify career paths.

What you'll need:

Projects:

• Strong ability to review and improve processes and pipelines.
• Able to identify areas of technical improvement, establish and refine a vision, and work directly with the engineering leadership to implement that vision.
• Ensure Product, Technical vision and roadmaps are aligned, balancing business value and risk.

Technical guidance:

• Build, lead, mentor and manage a team of talented engineers and engineering leaders.
• Collaborate with design, product, analytics, and leadership teams to specify features and development tools.
• Help build and execute transparent roadmaps, create and deploy best-in-class processes, proactively identify and resolve issues, and innovate in software development.
• Stay current on cutting-edge research & technologies, recommending new tools & techniques.

What we offer:

• When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:
• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where in the UK you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.