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New Games Engineering Manager

Inspired by minimalist art, Dots was created with the notion that beauty and fun are not mutually exclusive. Now as part of the Take-Two Interactive family, we continue to strive to provide the world with stylish and meaningful daily play experiences.

We have big plans for the next generations of games at Dots. We’re looking for an enthusiastic individual who will guide our newest prototypes, help design our core game frameworks, navigate market tests, explore new technologies, and rise to the challenge of making our studio’s next suite of games!

In this role, you’ll be building a world class New Games engineering team, technology foundation, and delivery processes resulting in the successful realization of the Dots New Games roadmap, from early prototypes to global launches.

Key Responsibilities

Manager of a team of New Games engineers

As a manager of engineers, the role will require a passion for communicating with, inspiring, mentoring, and aligning engineers with varying levels of experience as well as the ability to effectively grow the team. The New Games Engineering Manager is responsible for allocating engineers effectively across New Games projects, and advocating across teams for New Games priorities. Successful candidates will be passionate about building out their vision, but equally passionate about their team’s success, setting high standards, learning new things, being genuinely curious about alternative points of view, and being committed to finding the best solution, regardless of where it comes from.

Technical guide for multiple simultaneous New Games projects

You will help Dots craft and maintain a comprehensive new games technology stack. This will require a strong understanding of application architectures, prototype to production frameworks, and the many surrounding services that support a modern-day mobile live ops game. Part of this role will also involve establishing and maintaining standard tools and practices across all of our projects, and ensuring that our new games projects are maintaining excellence in technical best practices.

Technical partner to the New Games product and art teams

The New Games Engineering Manager role will require close communication with product and studio leadership, to help guide the creation of reliable and realistic roadmaps for releases in various stages of project lifecycles.

Our Roadmap

The New Games road map can be very different from year to year, depending on the status of various projects. However, there are also several on-going cross-game initiatives. As the leader of the New Games engineering team, you will be responsible for driving vision for, continuously reinventing and taking these to the next level! If this sounds interesting to you, we’d love to have a chat.

• Prototypes — in general, we have zero to three prototypes running at any given time. Prototypes generally have small teams with a single engineer, and releases are small-scale, for running marketability tests.
• Soft Launched Games — past a certain stage, certain prototypes will scale up to a larger scale team with a dedicated technical lead and several engineers. Releases will target specific KPIs and there is a stronger focus on project quality and stability.
• Common Game Framework — we want to accelerate development of our products and maximize code re-use for common application elements. The design of these components and maintenance of the overall framework is critical for the New Games team.
• Releases & CI/CD — we make sure our build pipeline is stable as possible and that we are improving delivery for releases/workflows of all types.
• Services — New Games are designed within an ecosystem of Dots services, including analytics, crash reporting, live ops, etc. The common game framework deals with many of these services.

Qualifications

• Self-starter looking for the next big learning opportunity and challenge. Passion for building games and ambition to build games for a global scale.
• Bachelor of Science or Engineering
• 10+ years of engineering experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Unity.
• 3+ years experience managing and growing a mobile gaming engineering team.
  
  • Experience managing off-shore engineers is a plus
• Track record of building mobile games prototypes
• Strong command of games-relevant software architecture and design patterns.
• Experience supporting highly instrumented analytics-driven products.
• Experience working with Product Managers and converting product requirements into effective technical designs and solutions.
• Compassionate team player and servant leader with strong culture of giving and receiving constructive feedback and going above and beyond for the team. Dedication to setting high standards and hiring great people.
• Strong attention to details and sense of ownership. Lifetime dedication to quality, finding the best ideas and building resilient systems.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and principles.
  • Experience with both Jenkins and Github Actions is a plus.
• Experience of working with QA on minimizing late quality issues or surprises.
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• Must be in the New York Metropolitan area or willing to relocate.

What We Offer You:

• Great Company Culture: Dots is an award-winning gaming company with three mobile hits—Dots, Two Dots, and Dots & Co—and over 100 million installs. We are newly proud members of the T2 family.
• While currently operating in a hybrid work environment, we expect to return to our stylish office, located in Manhattan in the historic Meatpacking District, once we can safely do so.
• We promote a friendly, honest, and collaborative work environment and believe we are at our best when we include everyone, regardless of one’s race, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical ability or attribute, and religious beliefs. We are proud of the diversity we’ve fostered and are continuing to make changes within the company to make Dots more equitable for everyone.
• Growth: As a global entertainment company, we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves, inquisitive, collaborative and to grow within and around the company.
• Benefits: Medical (HSA & FSA), dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase plan, commuter benefits, in-house wellness program, broad learning & development opportunities, a charitable giving platform with company match and more!
• Perks: Fitness allowance, employee discount programs, free games & events, stocked pantries and the ability to earn up to $500+ per year for taking care of yourself and more!

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (“T2”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment at T2 is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.