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Development Director - Bucharest

As the Development Director, you are ultimately responsible for all games developed within the studio and report to the Global Studio Director. You will lead a cross-discipline management team of art, creative, and technical leads to deliver great games. You are responsible for recruiting, retaining, and empowering teams of talented artists, programmers, and designers in collaboration with studio leadership in accordance with the core values and strategic goals of Maximum Entertainment. You will represent the studio at the Maximum Entertainment leadership level and maintain alignment with the goals set by the leadership team.

In this position, you will:

• Recruit, empower, and retain teams in accordance with the core values and strategic goals of Maximum Entertainment.
• Represent the studio to Maximum Entertainment leadership and other publishers within Maximum Entertainment at gate meetings.
• Manage a cross-discipline team of art, creative, and technical leads to deliver successful projects.
• Oversee studio budget and staffing plans across multiple projects to ensure full staff utilization and efficient use of resources.
• Manage game milestones and deliverables and ensure they are on time and at a high quality.
• Anticipate and escalate risks to Maximum Entertainment leadership as early as possible.
• Build long-term partnerships with other studios within the group to promote continuous improvement in development practices and benefit from talent across the group.

Ideally, you have:

• A minimum of 3 years of leadership experience in the video game industry.
• A minimum of 1 shipped title in a leadership role on a game from concept to release.
• Passion for first person shooters.
• Experience in project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) and software (JIRA, Confluence, Favro).
• Experience managing interdisciplinary development teams, including programmers, artists, and game designers.
• Experience coordinating game development across internal and external teams.