Department Manager, Engineering - Warcraft Arclight Rumble

The Warcraft Arclight Rumble team is seeking a highly motivated, positive,
and technical Department Manager to support our engineers and
engineering culture in our Engineering Department.

The Department Manager for Engineering won’t have any direct
responsibility to deliver any software features for our games. Instead, our
Department Manager will be responsible for facilitating each engineer's
career development, motivating and monitoring the engineers, working with
the Technical Director and Engineering Leads to evaluate their performance,
and providing coaching and counseling as needed.

The Department Manager also partners with the Technical Director to grow
and develop future engineering leaders.

Responsibilities
Develop an interpersonal relationship with all engineers: know their
personalities, strengths, and weaknesses.
Support the professional goals and development opportunities for the entire
engineering staff.
Facilitate communication and feedback between engineers and the
engineering team leadership.
Provide coaching (IDPs, mentoring, one-on-ones) and counseling (PIPs, other
corrective actions) for engineers as needed.
Monitor and review each team member’s progress.
Grow and develop engineering department managers to be excellent people
managers.
Organize regular performance appraisals with the engineering team
leadership.
Assist production and team managers with work assignment suggestions.
Plan and execute relevant training activities for engineering team.

Coordinate recruitment. Assist the engineering department with resumes,
phone screening, and interviews. Develop the recruiting process, and
proactively seek new avenues for engineering recruitment.

Requirements
Experience managing, coaching, and mentoring engineers or other technical
developers
Exceptional attention to detail and follow-up
Experience with staffing and team building
Good cross-disciplinary communications experience between engineering,
production, design, and art
Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative
A passion for video games

Pluses
Degree in management, computer science, engineering, or equivalent
professional training
Knowledge of various project management methodologies and practices