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Development Director

Role – Development Director
Location Hyderabad

A Development Director (DD) is responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of a game’s feature and live content on time, within budget, and to desired quality. The DD oversees the project schedule, hiring, and manages the relationship between the North American & India teams.

What You will do

• Coordinate and track the work of a variety of disciplines including artists, designers, software engineers, and live content staff.
• Proactively report on project status, team capacity and velocity, release health and product health metrics
• You have oversight over the project development process and play an important role in supporting the development team from one project phase to the next while ensuring quality, collaboration, and communication.
• You will partner with North America team leadership to ensure that the project is on time, to expected quality levels, and within budget.
• Build and evolve an efficient team; identify resourcing needs, provide challenges and developmental opportunities to ensure that all employees reach their potential.
• Regular communication with the North America team and coordinates dependencies with external partners
• Establish and assign work from defined project goals; achieve project deliverables through managing a team at a project or sub-project level.
• Organize planning, scrum, and sprint retrospective ceremonies with their team in an Agile development framework and provide context appropriate artifacts.
• Assessment and mitigation of risks for areas of ownership
• Partner with North America & India sub-teams to manage scope and quality.