TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Description

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR


Due to the Studio's rapid growth, we are seeking for a Technical Director who will be a game changer for the company. If you or anyone you know is inspired to make a strategic career move, send resumes to jobs@spinmaster.com and indicate TECHNICAL DIRECTOR in the subject line.

Type: Full Time Employee

Location: West LA

Relocation: Yes, Will be able to provide some relocation assistance

Scope:

Reporting to the Vice President of the Spin Master Studios, the Techincal Director will be responsible for the Game Studio and production technical environments. This includes hardware, software, and network architectures and operations.

The Technical Director is uniquely qualified to understand game development at a strategic as well as tactical level. The Technical Director would challenge and set development process & technical standards & guidelines for the gaming platform, understand data and work flow, provide high level direction.

The candidate will be key contributor to the Spin Master Studios Team.

Responsibilities:

Technical Oversight

- Responsible for the game studio technical environment.
- Provide technical strategic direction for hardware, software and networking for both development and end-user platform.
- Define and support overall technical design, code quality, and game architecture.
- Identify, evaluate, recommend and implement development tools and procedures.
- Review programming code for quality, consistency and compliance with established protocol.
- Managing departmental budget requirements.
- Manage 3rd party partnerships and process

Functional Collaboration

- Work with the Toronto IT team to enforce Corporate Security, system compatibilities and plan networking improvement
- Drive strong collaboration with functional leads both within and outside the organization
- Foster relationships with peer experts in other studios, share best practices.
- Identify technical problems, and work with producers, leads and other directors to solve them.

Schedule Management

- Sets project milestone targets, and defines development efficiency and game performance metrics
- Evaluate milestone achievements for technical completion, quality and compliance.

Staff Management

- Manage engineering and operations staff
- Manage career growth of staff
- Manage recruitment efforts