Technical Director
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Technical Director at Magnopus, you'll oversee the technical direction of studio-based projects in gaming, immersive experiences, and real-time engines. You'll collaborate with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams, ensuring projects meet creative, technical, and budgetary goals. Responsibilities include leading technical oversight, establishing frameworks, identifying risks, collaborating with leadership, providing technical direction on tools and workflows, mentoring teams, and partnering with external clients. You'll oversee technical planning and resource allocation, represent the studio's technical capabilities, and stay ahead of industry trends. Support for Unreal project teams with individual contributor work is also required.
Must have:
- Lead multiple technical teams
- Comprehensive Unreal Engine knowledge
- Systems, frameworks & optimization expertise
- Exceptional leadership & mentorship skills
- Strong problem-solving & risk management
- Excellent communication & client management
Perks:
- Ongoing education
- Mentorship opportunities
- Generous healthcare
- Time off benefits
7 skills required
Job Details
As a Technical Director at Magnopus, you will oversee the technical direction of studio-based projects, guiding teams to deliver innovative solutions across gaming, immersive experiences, and real-time engines. Acting as a key technical leader, you’ll collaborate with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams to ensure projects meet creative, technical, and budgetary goals while maintaining the highest quality standards. You’ll establish frameworks, promote accountability, and inspire teams to push the boundaries of what’s technically possible.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical oversight for all studio-based projects, ensuring quality, scalability, and timely delivery.
- Establish frameworks and processes to promote accountability, collaboration, and project excellence across multidisciplinary teams.
- Proactively identify opportunities, mitigate risks, and implement solutions to achieve project and organisational goals.
- Collaborate with creative leadership, project management, and discipline leads to align technical goals with creative and budgetary objectives.
- Provide technical direction on tools, workflows, and pipelines, driving continuous improvement across the studio.
- Mentor and develop engineering leads and team members, fostering a culture of growth, innovation, and collaboration.
- Partner with external clients and stakeholders to manage feedback, ensure alignment, and deliver exceptional results.
- Oversee technical planning and resource allocation, balancing business priorities with team needs.
- Represent the studio’s technical capabilities in meetings with clients, stakeholders, and external partners.
- Stay ahead of industry trends, driving innovation and adopting emerging technologies to enhance studio capabilities.
- Support Unreal project teams with individual contributor work as required.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading multiple technical teams concurrently through all phases of project development, from concept to delivery.
- A comprehensive knowledge of best practices, tools and processes used within Unreal.
- A strong knowledge of systems, frameworks and optimisation techniques within Unreal.
- Expertise in designing and optimising tools, workflows, and pipelines to improve efficiency and quality.
- Exceptional leadership skills with a passion for mentoring, guiding, and growing engineering talent.
- Strong problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to risk identification and resolution.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of tailoring messaging to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working with external clients and managing complex feedback processes to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Familiarity with outsourcing processes and collaboration with external vendors.
- Demonstrated ability to balance client, project, and organisational priorities effectively.
- Passion for innovation, continuous learning, and staying ahead of industry trends.
Our interview process
We believe in a transparent and straightforward interview process. Here's what you can expect when applying for this role:
Application review
Our team will carefully review your application to assess alignment with the role.
Recruiter screening call (30 minutes)
A general conversation to learn more about you, share insights about the company and role, and cover the basics.
First stage interview (60 minutes)
A deep dive into your skills and expertise, focusing on downwards leadership.
Second stage Interview (60 minutes)
A conversation focused on collaboration, interpersonal skills, problem solving and functional management, exploring your interests and values and how these align with those of Magnopus.
Final interview (60 minutes)
The interview process will finish with a conversation with members of our senior management team and will dive into topics around upwards leadership.
Offer
If successful, we’ll extend an offer and guide you through the next steps.
About us
Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.
Because we’re building the future, we endeavour to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits.
We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favour collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.
Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:
Please be aware that, if you are selected for a position, you will be required to provide proof of your right to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. This may involve providing original documents such as a passport or residence permit. Failure to provide the necessary documentation may affect your employment eligibility.
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