Development Director (Games)
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Who We Are

We are Skybound. We love creators. We love fans. We love thrilling games, indelible images, and moving stories. Our roots are in comics, but our brands extend to video games, television, movies, merchandise, and live experiences. We take special pride in original tales, fresh characters, and diverse voices.

Opportunity

Skybound is looking for an experienced and passionate Development Director to help build a thrilling new game franchise. Development Directors manage the end-to-end production plan for our games. They lead cross-team collaboration, drive consistent, stable releases, manage quality processes, and build operational excellence. This role is the project management backbone of the game, coordinating a multidisciplined team as they deliver electrifying results. The ideal candidate will be passionate about bringing visibility, process, and follow-through on commitments.

As a Development Director, you will work collaboratively with cross-functional production, co-development, central service, and publishing teams, developing a new, unannounced project. You'll create and contribute to multiple pipelines and processes and help maintain the highest bar for quality. Informed by an expert development team and strong studio support, you are responsible for building and tracking to a comprehensive project plan for multiple platforms, through launch and beyond.

Reports: This position will report to the EVP, Production

Responsibilities:

• Project planning, goal setting, production tooling, release management, and development process
• Constant communication, stakeholder and team alignment, and expectation setting
• Ongoing prioritization and scoping to ensure predictability and plan visibility
• Meeting formats, management of team roles, and responsibilities
• Dependency management and risk tracking
• Tactical milestone management; maintain a snapshot of scope, goals, and feature progress
• Own Jira administration; create and maintain dashboards, reports, tracking methods
• Identify project risks, and develop strategies to mitigate them
• Ensure production methodology is applied consistently team-wide
• Troubleshoot, identify, and quickly resolve production issues and/or inefficiencies
• Coordinate strategy to concentrate testing resources to inform project initiatives
• Recommend programs to improve hardware infrastructure, version control, and automated systems to reach new standards of development efficiency

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in game development
• 2+ games shipped with significant scope of ownership
• Outstanding project management capabilities, documentation, tracking, and transparency
• Strong attention to detail, well organized, excellent at communicating plans, and highly collaborative
• Deep experience with JIRA

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management certifications
• Outsource vendor management experience
• Passion for video game development, combat-oriented games, and Skybound IP

Job Type: Regular, Full-Time

Salary Range: $140,000-$180,000

Skybound offers a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, as well as free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We also offer a 401K plan with 4% match, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, generous time off, wellness benefits, and tuition reimbursement.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Skybound we value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds! Skybound is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, hair texture or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Skybound complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination.

Skybound will consider applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the CA Fair Chance Act and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.