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Development Director
3 years ago
You love working with teams to ensure they are focused, well organized and getting everything they need to deliver great work. You act as a force multiplier for the teams you help manage. You enjoy working with Producers to prioritize work, manage risks, and plan out different scenarios. A natural leader, you are perceptive, persuasive and exercise radical candor to support your teams. You have experience working with technical and non-technical people. Most importantly, you have an authentic passion to support people with their career development and look for ways to motivate them to deliver the best games in the industry.
You will be part of a high-performing team where individuals are constantly encouraged to voice out their ideas and opinions. You’ll help us build and operate great games through interaction with team members, peers, and product leadership. You’ll enjoy elevating the team members to grow, learn, and deliver phenomenal work.
Sound like a match? Kabam Vancouver is looking for a Development Director to join us!
Here’s what you can expect to do:
- Leadership
Partner with the Executive Producer, continuing to drive planning and execution to support a live game
Playing a lead role in managing and cultivating the project teams; suggesting and leading process improvement initiatives studio-wide
Advocating for employee career development by providing guidance and mentorship to the team, and making sure they have everything they need to shine in their job
Suggesting and leading process improvement initiatives studio-wide
- Project Management:
Collaborating with key project stakeholders to establish/plan schedules and resource requirements based on project goals
Identifying dependencies and priorities between tasks in partnership with the project teams
Monitoring project progress within assigned budgets and managing any changes that impact the overall project schedule, budget and resources along with proper communication
- Development:
Ensuring the team is trained on necessary skills, processes, and best practices
Supporting an environment where staff understand how their daily work contributes to the company’s goals
Solving problems, balancing priorities, and finding creative solutions to achieve results
In order to be successful in this role, we are looking for:
- 7+ years of project management experience in entertainment and/or software development industry
- 3+ years in a leadership role with strong people management skills
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or certification in project management, with a focus on Agile methodologies
- Experience setting up and running project management tools such as JIRA, and also comfortable using resource management tools to track, model and analyze resource allocation
- Deep understanding of games as a service business model
- High degree of initiative and the ability to proactively identify opportunities to improve
Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made.
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader of developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games for mobile devices. They merge consumer behaviour with the art of game design to create experiences that are enjoyed by millions of players across the globe. Each game has raised the benchmark in mobile gaming, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology and revolutionary gameplay to the console in every player’s pocket.
Kabam has partnered with leading entertainment brands like Disney, Hasbro and Universal to create mobile games based on some of the world’s most iconic franchises.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown, San Francisco and Austin. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
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