Engineering Manager

Job Description

Join the award-winning team that created God of War

Managing a team of programmers, partnering with Technical Directors and engineering Leads, collaborating with other managers, hiring, firing, mentoring, performances reviews, keeping everyone on the career trajectory they want to be on – that's the job. Have you got the coding experience? Have you got the people management chops? Are you up for it? If so, give us a shout!

Responsibilities
• Develop an interpersonal relationship with the programmers and/or technical artists; know their personalities, strengths, and weaknesses
• Manage a team of leads and individual contributors, providing support, mentorship, constructive feedback, and career development advice
• Write and deliver regular performance appraisals
• Counsel as needed (including PIPs and other corrective / disciplinary actions)
• Work with the other managers to refine, communicate, and administer standards and processes for evaluating performance
• Support the other managers, leads, directors, and recruiting team in identifying, sourcing, interviewing, and hiring talent
• Facilitate communication and feedback between engineers and engineering leads
• Present, communicate, and advocate engineering perspectives as appropriate and needed
• Seek collaborative resolution to both intra and inter team conflicts
• Contribute to a positive work environment

Requirements
• B.Sc. degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Minimum five years programming experience
• Minimum one game development cycle managing, coaching, and mentoring technical developers
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills
• Exceptional attention to detail and follow through
• Experience with staffing and team building
• Knowledge of various project management methodologies and practices
• Project scheduling experience
• Good cross-disciplinary communication
• Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative
• Approachable, relaxed, and friendly demeanor

We value talent, self-motivation, and team spirit. In turn, we provide an environment with a large degree of autonomy and opportunities for growth.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ro2o4d-18-223-32-230-42 in your application.