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Director of Product Development

Welcome to Striking Distance Studios!

Striking Distance Studios continues to grow. We are looking for talented developers with experience working on large-scale, live service games to join us in our San Ramon studio.

What we need:

We’re looking for a Director of Product Development to manage a new game in development. The Director of Product Development should have experience launching or managing a successful live service game. This person will work closely with and provide direction to Game Designers, Data Analysts, Producers, and Engineers

Responsibilities:

• Drive, motivate and support development and content planning to ensure team delivers on-schedule milestones, worldwide launch and subsequent major feature releases.
• Defines and drives internal schedules and public releases from the top down ensuring predictability in hitting milestone dates
• Partner with key business stakeholders including publishing, operations, marketing, quality assurance and customer service.
• Identify and communicate roadblocks and bottlenecks that may prevent the team from achieving their goals.
• Be an excellent communicator across the team, with fellow leads, and to studio and executive management.
• Understand our business goals, and shepherd the game through greenlight gates to launch
• Manages/drives external 3rd party studios
• Works closely with internal team and recruiting for all hiring needs across our studio
• Motivate and support the team to ensure that project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved.
• Identify and Innovate process improvements where necessary.
• Proactively do whatever is necessary to provide value to your studio
• Be a team ambassador for the studio's culture.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of game production/Development Management experience, specifically on a development team.
• Senior level leadership experience in the development, commercial launch and live operations of live service games
• Prior history of directly managing other team members.
• Great communications skills (written and verbal).
• Enjoys working in a collaborative, agile team.
• An affinity for working with creative individuals.
• Motivated and can work independently with minimal supervision.
• Direct experience with JIRA and Perforce, or comparable alternatives.