Spin Master, a toy company for which I am producing a children's MMO, is seeking a technical director.
Here is s description of the job responsibilities.
KEY 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
KEY METRICS
Properly functioning internal and production technical environment
Functioning engineering and operations process and oversight methodology
Strong collaborative relationship with studio team leads and head office IT
If you are interested in finding out more about the postion, please contact John Reale at johnr@spinmaster.com
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