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Director of Development

The Director of Development should be passionate about both process and gaming to provide daily leadership to the team(s). They will manage project and feature planning, balance scope with capacity, manage resource allocation, track progress, implement processes and manage risks and mitigation. Specifically:

• They understand the iterative nature of creative processes and how to organize them.
• They know how to build healthy, high functioning relationships with vendors.
• They are a force multiplier for the team and understand how to empower them.
• They are masters of content pipelines.

Job Details:

• Help shape the Firaxis Studio with Senior Leadership, driving new asynchronous initiatives and changing the landscape of what remote development is for the industry.
• Forecast and align resource capacity for complex projects/teams, identify, escalate, and propose with the support of team leadership opportunities to address skill gaps and build business justifications for additional resources.
• Be the point of escalation for conflict management within project teams, help to remove roadblocks or escalate issues to team leadership for resolution before they become impactful.
• Lead development managers at all levels of the organization to provide feedback and mentorship, ensuring compliance with established processes.
• Establish and maintain change management processes for existing games/services to ensure that releases and issues are triaged and resolved.
• Identify and implement process improvement programs across full projects or multiple teams.
• Approve plans and schedules, drive status reports across multiple complex projects/teams.
• Anticipate and solve dependencies between the project and external groups.
• Scale and grow a new Live Services team within the Firaxis organization while establishing and maintaining team health standards.
• Use change management processes to communicate and measure the effectiveness of project-wide change.

Qualifications:

• Experience managing teams, distributed across multiple different time zones.
• Experience delivering live services.
• Experience managing cross-discipline teams and working with vendors and outsourcers.
• Ability to mediate and drive conflict resolution.
• Adept at managing across all levels of an organization.
• Understand the status of your project and can visualize that status for any audience.
• Understand the complexities and requirements of production and how to manage them.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use Firaxis.com or 2K.com accounts.