Game Code Director

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, C++, Design, Game Engine, Project management, Teamwork

Job Description

Game Code DirectoYour New Role…

Rocksteady is looking for Game Code Director to join our dedicated and collaborative team working on our upcoming title Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and new exciting things to come.

The Game Code Director is responsible for ensuring that the Game Code teams deliver the highest quality game experience possible, in line with the studios vision Creative Director's vision . You will guide and support these teams and their lLeads in architecting, building and maintaining robust and flexible systems that support our design goals and the iterative development process which has enabled the high calibre of games Rocksteady is known for.

Close collaboration with other departments is key to achieving this. Working with Production, you'll help to create schedules that keep us focused on the most important areas, hit our targets and adapt to the changing needs of the project. Through regular discussions with the Design and Content teams, you'll understand and influence the overall shape and low-level details of our AAA game. And naturally, you'll frequently engage with the wider Code team to align our efforts.

Your role as the head of the Game Code team includes supporting the people on it and their growth and development, both directly for your Lleads, and through them for their team members.

As a Code Director, you’ll engage with developing and adapting the vision, direction and culture of the whole Code team. You will also be involved in setting the overall direction of the project, and the operation of the wider studio.

This role is expected to work in a hybrid pattern, from our Kentish Town studio.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Improving game development processes and approaches to maximise the efficiency and productivity of these teams
• Guiding and influencing the design and implementation of gameplay features, in collaboration with the Design and Content teams
• Providing technical direction for Game Code teams by engaging with their requirements analysis, giving architectural oversight of the systems they build, and coordinating with engine development as needed
• Supporting the people on these teams to achieve their goals, develop their skills, and sustain their wellbeing, as line manager of the Game Code leads
• Ensuring your teams have realistic plans, and working to increase the predictability of their delivery
• Overseeing recruitment for internal teams and collaboration with external development partners

Qualifications & Experience...

• Extensive experience leading engineers and working with teams of Gameplay coders
• A high level of technical ability, including with C++
• Substantial professional game development experience on high quality projects
• Self-directed, organised and able to prioritise effectively

  Experience with Unreal Engine productions is preferred

• Familiarity with game AI & Animation techniques and approaches is beneficial
• Experience developing networked multiplayer and open world games is desirable

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How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.