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Associate Technical Director - World of Warcraft

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Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an experienced engineering leader to serve as Associate Technical Director for the World of Warcraft team. The successful candidate will assist the Engineering Leadership of World of Warcraft to drive direction for new technology used in World of Warcraft and provide leadership over various programming teams.

What you will do…

• Develop technology plans and oversee programming development for the team
• Work with production staff and other leads to establish engineering tasks and subsequent schedule requirements across multiple disciplines of programming and technology
• Coordinate with the Engineering Manager to steer various World of Warcraft programming teams to meet goals and requirements.
• Review and approve completed engineering tasks in collaboration with the technical director, the production staff and other leads
• Evaluate and mentor programmers while being a champion for work-life balance
• Provide critical analysis of technology and development practices with the goal of improving game quality and team efficiency and fostering a positive working environment
• Interface with the Technical Director and leads to ensure that technology interests and policies are properly represented and maintained through the course of development, and that future technology is on track and in development for future products
• Perform research to acquire new knowledge necessary to perform assigned tasks and maintain the technological evolution of current and future products
• Maintain familiarity with Blizzard Entertainment’s current game designs as well as with emerging technologies across the game industry in multiple genres
• Build collaborative connections with Design, Art, Production, Audio, QA and other partner teams
• Promote, participate in, and contribute to our culture of inclusion and diversity.

To succeed, you must have…

• Experience as a lead software engineer
• An ability to mentor technical leaders and excellent people skills
• Comfort working within an established code framework as well as building technology from the ground up
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

We’re also interested in hearing about…

• Experience shipping multiple games, at least one as a senior engineer or higher on a large team
• Experience in the design and implementation of game systems, multi-threading, rendering, UI, game object management, online networking, and database management
• Passion for games and World of Warcraft in particular
• Proven aptitude for technical design