Manager, Gameplay Engineering

- Provides coaching, performance evaluations, career development support and opportunities for team members. - Collaborates with studio leadership to support studio cultural values and foster a positive work environment. - Collaborates with project management to maintain a team schedule that meets project goals and deadlines while supporting a sustainable team workload. - Plans, organizes, monitors, and evaluates team's work and ensures its positive impact on the player experience for a game. - Works closely with Design and other departments to provide technical, scheduling, and creative feedback on game, develops project goals and communicates technical requirements and limitations. - Structures and staffs team appropriately, including acting as hiring manager for and ensuring efficient onboarding of new employees. - Maintains thorough understanding of team’s technical systems and provides guidance to team members. - Contributes direct technical work, though never at the expense of non-technical responsibilities. - Ensures that all complaints and concerns related to inappropriate or unprofessional conduct in the workplace are addressed immediately to foster a safe work environment. - Directly supervises a team of Gameplay Leads and Gameplay programmers, carrying out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. - Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. - Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. - Expertise in an application programming language (C++ preferred). - Some familiarity with a scripting language such as Python or JavaScript. - Ability to understand and adhere to the prevalent coding style and practice. - Understanding of procedural and object-oriented programming paradigms. - Adaptive coding style. - Visual Studio experience required. JSON, and Maya experience a plus. - Ability to use common workplace software like Microsoft Office products.